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Originally Posted by ODog
You're giving a teenager an awful lot of credit.
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I guess it depends on the level of HS ball. My son played in one of the top leagues in Southern California, so maybe I have a biased sample, but . . . .
Three close games ended with his team deliberately not inbounding the ball to let time expire. No timekeeper got confused.
In two (maybe three) games players deliberately took the "free" DOG warning in the final minute (not final seconds) to stop the clock.
In the game being discussed, the team behind was clearly aware that a DOG was a way to stop the clock--indeed, it was a smart play to try to get a DOG, and even resulting in a T was still a smart play.