Messed up inbounds play

[HokiePaul]

Had a strange situation while working a youth rec league the other day. Basically my partner and I both contributed to a messed up inbounds. However, it got me thinking about similar scenarios and I wanted to confirm that what I was thinking was correct.

2nd Half, I'm administering the 2nd of 2 FTs to White. Apparently a player from Blue not in a marked lane space entered on release. Instead of a delayed violation signal, my partner sounds whistle as the ball is going through the basket and says "violation Blue", then indicates to the table to "score the basket". Now I hear "violation Blue" and instintively I'm thinking White ball (my partner may have even said White ball, but not sure). Of course I should have caught this here, but for a variety of reasons (blowout, rec game running behind schedule, partner constantly reaching to make calls in my primary), I was anxious to get the game moving again. Anyway, I bounce the ball to White who is waiting for the throw in. White inbounds the ball and proceeds to shoot an air ball out of bounds. Now I realize something is wrong because I know we should be going the other direction; so does Blue's coach. It's Blue ball OOB now anyway so I jog over to the coach, tell him we made a mistake on the inbounds, but it is now his ball. He was fine with this explaination -- no harm done.

Question: Even if there had been some harm done (i.e. white scores after incorrectly recieving the inbounds) there's nothing that could be done, correct? I know there is a case play about the wrong team taking a throw in after a made basket of FT, but I don't think that applies because of my partner's whistle. The only other case plays that come to mind involve the AP arrow and aren't directly related.

Anyway, just wanting to confirm that once the throw in ends, no correction can be made. Even if we were to stop play immediately after the inbounds and explain to the coach we messed up, technically, it would stay White ball when we resume at the POI.

[bob jenkins]

Given that you administered the throw-in, that's correct.

If White scores, then goes OOB and makes a throw-in (as after most made baskets), then it's a different procedure. See the cases in rule 10.