MIssed Backcourt (almost)

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Had a situation last night that I've never experienced before. I'm T tableside. Ball swings opposite fairly deep into the corner. L starts the rotation since just about all the players were over there. I get to C and begin to look into the paint for any matchups there.

I look back out top and the ball is bouncing into the backcourt where A1 gathers it and starts dribbling back toward front court. I have absolutely no idea what happened over there or how the ball got back there.

I recover somewhat toward backcourt and immediately hear BHC yelling for "over and back". I look across and see my partner looking at me for a whistle. I got nothing. He (after it seemed an eternity) hit his whistle and we got together in the center of the floor. I told him I didn't see what happened as I was looking into the paint. He told me that no B player touched it, and we needed a violation.

All this time, I'm wondering why he just didn't go get it. Then I realize L had backed out of the rotation seeing that the offense was trying to skip pass back out to the top, making me the T again.

In the end, we got the play right, but it was a little sloppy looking on what I (now) understand was a pretty obvious violation. Any advice for what I should have done here?