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Originally posted by lookin2improve
End of regulation, 3/10 of second left on clock, team A(visiting team) inbounding under their own basket. Upon entry pass, clock is incorrectly started BEFORE being touched and before the signal from administrating official. The inbounds pass is tapped in for 2 by A2 after the horn sounds due to the quick-triggered time-keeper.
Question: Is the play dead at the sound of the horn, time reset and play readministered(thus penalizing team A for time-keepers mistake)? or, do you allow the basket?
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I think the only way to handle this is, unfortunately, a do-over. Timer's error.
Edit:
What we do know is which team had the ball (for an OB throw-in). And how much time was on the clock.
Yes, a tap is pretty much instantaneous, but you
still must not have your hands touching the ball when the buzzer goes. (If I have the understanding of this rule wrong, please correct me.) So, had the clock started correctly, would the shooter's hand left the ball before the buzzer went? Only God knows that. As with the ball not being released in time. Frankly, it is unfair for us to
allow or disallow a goal in this case.
Ya, it does seem that the players didn't decide the game. But you still don't know if the shot was released in time. You can't award the goal becuase it may not have. You can't cancel the goal because the clock started to early.
Result: do-over.
If there's an approved ruling, I am game, but otherwise, the refs take the heat and re-administer. Then move on.
[Edited by JugglingReferee on Nov 3rd, 2004 at 03:49 PM]