Grasping ...
 

10-3-3: A player shall not: Grasp either basket at any time during the game except to prevent
injury; dunk or stuff, or attempt to dunk or stuff a dead ball.

10-4-1-I: Bench personnel ... shall not: Grasping either basket except to prevent injury; dunking or stuffing, or
attempting to dunk or stuff a dead ball.

We know the rule, Billy. You calling this knowing the player thought the game was over?

What? Who? Where? When?
 

I'm not even sure that I would see it happening. In this situation, my partner, and I, would probably be meeting to discuss what the hell just happened, and how we're going to proceed. I thought saluki34 was looking for a rule reference.

Sometimes kids can do weird things, and sometimes officials can do weirder things:

http://forum.officiating.com/basketb...tml#post923016

I know what the rule says, I was more interested in seeing how many of you would actually assess the T to the player in this situation, if any of the crew saw it?

How much of the game scenario do you take into consideration when deciding to assess the T or not?

The letter of the law says you T him up, but???? interested in game management/scenario thoughts from you all.

I'd T him up.

I would not T up the player here. I would also NOT put the amount of time on the clock from when the whistle was blown but rather when the TO was granted. In this case it would be less than a second difference.

Just from seeing this again I would guess these officials did it right (not sure about the hanging on the rim though). I note the C frantically waving off the basket. Although the video doesn't show it one can surmise he must have seen or heard the coach call TO before the shot was in the air. Again, it's not on the video but if this is the case then it was the right call.

It's on the 2nd video, at 0:27 of the video.

You are correct. He even accidently brushed up into that official. He asked for time out before the shot was released.