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Originally posted by Lotto
based on the judgment of the official, that the shot-clock operator failed to
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I do appreciate your help, but I just don't buy your interpretation of that rule's wording.
Do you have an AR or NCAA bulletin with more detail.
It is still my strong opinion that it is improper to use the monitor to determine whether or not the ball hit the ring.
The officials on the court must decide that fact for themselves without the aid of the TV monitor. Once they decide that fact, they then can go to the monitor to determine if the operator failed to reset the shot clock and if so what time should be on it.
On this play there was nothing that the shot clock operator failed to do. Burr even called a violation on the play. So his judgment was that the operator acted properly. Hightower seemed to indicate by his actions that he believed the ball hit the ring on the try and that the operater acted improperly. They need to resolve this on the court without going and viewing a replay to see who was correct. Seeing which official is right is not the intent of that rule.