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Originally posted by bsilliman
For everyone who said they would have a count going even though there was no way to have a 10-sec violation, I say you are doing too much.
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And how do you know that you don't have to count? One of two things must happen:
1- You look at the clock before the ball is inbounded. If it's less than 10 seconds, the you should look at the clock to make sure it has started once the ball is inbounded.
2- You start your count as normal and then stop after you realize that the clock is started and that you don't need to count.
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If you are doing to know how much time is going off the clock then you are not concentrating on the important things like:
1) fouls by the defender
2) illegal dribble
3) illegal screens to get the dribble open
4) etc.
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So are you telling us that when you are required to count, you can't concentrate on these other things. If you'll forgive me for saying so, that's a bit of bunk.
When the ball is inbounded, I always start my count. When I look at the clock and realize that it is running and there are less than ten seconds left, I stop. Whether the clock was started properly or not is just as important as these other things.
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Futhermore, by counting YOU are anticipating when YOU think the horn is going to go off. What happens if you get to 8 seconds and the horn has not gone off? As in stopping the clock there can be fractions of a second of lag time of when YOU chop the clock and the timer turns the clock on. In this case there is 7.4 seconds, so up to .3-.5 second delay could occur.
If you have given the scorer and timer a good pre-game, then they know what there duties are during a situation such as this, so let them do the job.
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Mistakes happen no matter how good the pre-game is. Preventive officiating is not anticipation. We already have to be prepard to react to a mistake. To just assume that they aren't going to occur only compounds the error by not being ready to handle it.
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YOU have enough to worrry about on the court.
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I don't consider it worry. I think of it as doing my job.
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I agree that the ball goes back to the endline and you start with the same amount of time on the clock.
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Based on what rule? What if a foul had occurred? You call the foul and realize that the clock didn't start. Do you wave off the foul and go back to the baseline and start over? What if they had scored and the clock still hadn't started?
You can't ignore the play that happened because the clock didn't start properly.