This happened to me in a varsity basketball game last week. Game goes into overtime and there are no stopages/time outs in the final 75 seconds. Tie score-Team A scores a 3, Team B scores a 3, team A scores a 2 with 12 seconds to go. B pushes the ball down court, B1 goes baseline-three feet behind the basket-and crashes through A1. There is a scramble in the lane and at the same moment I've got a grab on A3, my partner (the trail) has a jump ball between B2 and A2 and the horn goes off. Several bits of stupidity: (1) I lost track of the clock assuming there were 1-2 seconds left and, because of this, passed the crash-there was actually four seconds left. (2) then I decide to call a foul on A3 and (3) my partner calls a held ball in the lane when someone should be watching the clock. We talked for 3-4 seconds, decided there was no time left on the clock and called the game over. My question is this-could we have screwed this one up any more then we did and since we do not have definative proof of how much time was left on the clock should we have put .2/.4/.8 seconds back and played it out? Upon watching the local access cable TV replay of the game you can hear our whistle(s)and less then a second later you hear the horn. The replay also shows my foul, my partners jump ball and the clock does not have a tenth of a second capability. Any suggestions out there?
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