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Had this happen this past Tuesday night at the end of my varsity assignment. Here's how she went down....
Home team hits a 3-pter to go up two.
Visiting team goes down the floor and is fouled by the home team and the clock stops on the foul call with 2.7 seconds left to go in game(BTW, not a bad foul by the home team beacause visting team had been hot from the land of 3 all night long.)
Home team takes a full time out to "ice" the free throw shooter.
Time out expires and we line up for FT's. Visiting team shooting double bonus with the best FT shooter at the line for the visiting team.
First FT is good. Visiting team now down by 1.
Second FT is missed and with about 1.4 seconds a jump ball is called by my partner. However, the clock operator barely heard either my partner's whistle or my secondary whistle and clock is stopped with 0.1 seconds left.
I reconfirmed with my partner on what call he had and my partner tells me I did not see the game clock. Knowing for a 110% fact that time needs to be back on the clock.
I pulled both head coaches together and told them what I saw and I was 110% sure of what I saw. I thus went on to tell them what we had call wise and what we were going to go with time wise.
The final call was a jump ball and putting 0.9 seconds back on the game clock to make it 1.0 full second on the game clock.
The visitng team missed a shot at the buzzer to win the game and the home team won by 1 point 63-62.
MY QUESTION TO ALL OF YOU....DID I DO THIS RIGHT??? I know what the rule book says about factoring reaction time inton resetting a game clock, and that is why I did not reset the game clock to the 1.4 that I saw because of factoring human lay time into the equation.
WHAT DO YOU THINK WITH THIS CALL THAT I MADE AT THE END OF THIS GAME?
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