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Originally posted by tweetz
Friday night, girls varsity, home team is 2nd or 3rd in the state and notorious for having a tough crowd. 69-69 with 1.5 sec in the game. follwing the tying basket, white (home) goes to inbound the ball to her wide open teammate who is a whole step inbounds. somehow they seemed unsure of what they were doing and when the pass recipient catches the ball, she has her right foot on the court, left foot suspended above OOB, she then for some reason decides that she was supposed to be the inbounder and allows her suspended foot to land (OOB). I blow the whistle, buzzer sounds about a second later.
*******We put 1 sec on the clock, spot throw in for blue under their basket. White's coach who's been yappy all game walks (WAY) out onto the court. almost to the center circle when I finally hear him yell "TIME!". (I haven't given the ball to blue yet, I blow my whistle, "time white" start walking up to him and my partner gets to him first. I figure she's going to tell him too sit, then I consider T'ing him myself for knowing better than to walk that far onto the court. (by the way, my voice is so hoarse it doesn't do me any good to talk to someone more than 2 ft in front of me.) As my partner starts talking to him, I gather my bearings and turn to face the players. Coach says something about "what's going on" and I turned and said to him, "I just gave you your time out". ******
Then I'm not sure exactly what else he said, but my partner T's him. crowd goes wild. He doesn't budge. I take the ball to go administer the FT's. I go to my partner and tell her I gave him his time out,(I don't think she knew I called it, she didn't know that's why he walked on the court) the table buzzes me and the scorekeeper wants to know why we put 1sec back up....
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If you and your partner had gotten together at either of the points where I put ****** , it would have made the whole sitch cleaner and more controlled looking. I agree with others about the rules for putting time back on the clock, but even if you were going to put time back on, it might have been good to get partner, both coaches and the scorekeeper in a huddle, explain once, grant the TO at that point and keep everything cool and collected. I think we all tend to try to rush through things, after all, we are told over and over again to just get the ball into play to avoid problems. But sometimes (and I'm still working on this myself), it's better to slow down, take a deep breath and sort of re-group.
On the other hand, if you'd skipped the extra second, and just gone to overtime when the inbounder violated, it would have been even better.