Delay of Game

[jeremy341a]

Back when I coached we played a game in which we were down 4 points with the ball under our own basket with 5 seconds remaining. We were out of timeouts. I instucted my player that once we scored to knock the ball into the bleachers. I did that bc I already knew the other team wouldn't even inbound the ball as I heard their coach tell them they are out of time outs just let them score and don't inbound the ball. We inbounded and scored and immediately my player slapped the ball into the coner near the bleachers. The official gave us a delay of game warning which stopped the clock. We stole the following inbounds pass and missed a 3 at the buzzer.

Question was the call correct? Should we have received a warning or a technical foul. The other coach argued that we shouldn't have received our warning bc it was under one minute left in the game. I can find nothing to support this. However 10-3-5a states player technical for delay the game by acts such as: Preventing the ball from being made live promptly of from being put in play.

I wasn't positive at the time but I expected to receive a warning. Even if we would have received the T it wouldn't have hurt us anymore as we were going to lose without stopping the clock.