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Originally posted by Hawks Coach
Witnessed a bigger screw-up two days ago. Teams are aligned wrong for overtime jump ball. I was just an observer, but I noticed it right away and told the people sitting around me. There was a red violation on the jump, and the refs and some of the players on white understood that the teams were going the wrong way. Three white players are lined up at the true offensive end of the court, red has two players at each end and one in the middle, and everyone appears confused.
Instead of the refs clarifying, they hand the ball to the inbounder, she inbounded to a point guard in backcourt, and she comes to the front court (while the inbounder screams at her thinking it is a backcourt violation - she didn't even know what way they were going). While red tries to sort out what was going on, white passes to the block and gets the quick score. Red coach was understandably POd, red team gets distracted and loses ball, white team hits a three, and the rout is on.
Refs needed to get the teams set right before the re-start.
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Speaking of screw-ups...
HS game, neither I nor my partner noticed the shot clock was at 30 instead of 35 to start the game. (Actually we saw it was at 35 when they tested it pregame but somehow it got moved to 30.) A wins the tip, scores in the first few seconds. B's coming up, I'm trail counting, I look up at shot clock and see it's at 29..."oh boy, here we go...note to self: talk to the shot clock operator at first dead ball"...normally I would have stopped the game right there but there was no BC pressure and I really, really, really expected B to get a shot off...and of course the clock gets down to 2 before they get off a shot which goes OOB. I go to table, tell her she screwed up & please remember to reset the clock. She and the clock operator look at me like I have 3 eyes and say "we did reset it!" Oh...now I'm thinking I'm glad I kept my mouth shut but wondering how I could have missed those 5 seconds.
Partner goes to inbound the ball, I look at the shot clock & it resets to 30. Ah-ha! Tweet! We get it straightened out and coach B asks if he can have those 5 seconds back later, when he needs it.