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Originally posted by ChuckElias
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Originally posted by Mark Dexter
Chuck - isn't the guideline that 0.3 or more must be taken off the clock in a tap-and-out situation? I.e., if 0.3 remains on the clock when this happens, the quarter/game is over?
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In NCAA/FED, a catch-and-shoot cannot count if the clock shows 0.3 seconds or less at the beginning of the play. In the NBA, however, the rule is that 0.3 seconds is the minimum amount of time that is allowed for a catch-and-shoot. The correlary is that 0.2 seconds must elapse any time the ball is legally touched inbounds.
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This was from the NBA rules website:
NO LESS THAN :00.3 must expire on the game clock when a ball is thrown inbounds and then hit instantly out-of-bounds. If less than :00.3 expires in such a sit-uation, the timer will be instructed to deduct AT LEAST :00.3 from the game clock.
I took this to mean 0.3 had to run off . . .