[theboys]

I was watching a JV boys game this weekend, and the scoreboard operator must have been a first-timer. Two or three times he forgot to stop the clock, and the officials came over to reset the time. The fourth time I hollered out "clock's running!", and he stopped it. When the ball was inbounded, he forgot to start it again. My wife leaned over to me and said, "well, its not running now".

Funny thing is, he went on to do the varsity games, and I don't recall a single problem in either.

To make matters worse in the JV game, though, one of the officials (2-man) appeared to be real green. His foul-call mechanics were not very good. We had three or four delays where the scorekeeper was confused about who a foul was on, and had to call the officials over to ask.

The worst moment (for the officials, anyway) occurred in the third quarter. A1 took a shot, and was fouled. The "experienced" official blew his whistle. As everyone stopped, A1's shot rebounded out to the middle of the lane, where A2 caught it, and nonchalantly shot it in. As the "experienced" official approached the table to make the call, the "green" official intercepted him, and tried to convince him the shot had been good. They stood at midcourt discussing it for 15-20 seconds. It was pretty embarrassing.