Basket counted that did not go in

[mbyron]

Originally Posted by Toren

Was this me? I had this happened earlier this season, I had the foul, thought I saw the ball out of the corner of my eye not go in, but was not positive. I had a player down, so I tended to him first, closed down. He was fine. I approach my partner and my partner, gives me the old "count it" mechanic. On tape, you can see me asking him and you can see him signal count it like three times.

So I went to report and the table questioned me, "Basket went in?" I said, "I don't know but my partner says it did, so we're going with it did".

Watched the tape, partner was wrong, not sure what he was looking at.

In your situation, I probably would have started the same. But it might have continued differently: if I detected a disagreement between partner and table, I might have gotten them together: sometimes 3 against 1 will prevail, especially when the truth is on their side.

Sometimes a partner projects confidence when he shouldn't toward someone who doesn't know; it's a different matter to lie to the table that you're "certain" it was a basket.