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Originally posted by Dan_ref
Whoa. You mean there's actually a case play for when a ball
deflates during play??? Man, you guys are good!
Anyway, I don't like it. Potentially gives the offense an
entire new shot clock period they did not earn.
Disadvantage to the defense. [/B]
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I suppose the issue is whether it is better to possibly disavantage the offense or the defense. For example, say there is 3 seconds left on the shot clock, and the referee dislocates a knee and can't contiue. Play is stopped and the referee replaced. Should the shot clock be reset? (FIBA says yes). Now in this situation there are two possibilites:
1. The defense has spent the last 21 seconds playing great "d" and it looks like it is unlikely that the offense would have got a "decent" shot off. Resetting the shot clock clearly disadvantages the defense.
on the other hand:
2. The offense has just successfully broken the defensive pressure, and the stopage of play has allowed the defense to regroup and probably hold out for the next 3 seconds. Here the offense is obviously disadvantaged.
There is no easy answer, and it would be a nightmare to call on a case-by-case basis, therefor FIBA has ruled that in ALL cases, the shot clock gets reset. This goes with the general principle that the offense has the benefit of the doubt in most cases.
I would like to know how everyone else would handle such a situation, as by the sounds of things, the NFHS/NCAA rules don't cover this.