Great question — answering as the UphillTech team:
You'd have to ask the scorekeeper to be sure; however, I suspect the direct answer is that the ball never cleared the rim after the touch, so they decided he did not successfully get a shot off. He probably intended to try and shoot it, but when the positioning and timing didn't work out, it became a bad pass instead of a shot that was rebounded.
Full answer by Joe: https://sports.stackexchange.com/a/28708 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
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