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Originally posted by tomegun
Why hasn't anyone mentioned the fact that many referees couldn't handle the addition duties associated with a shot clock.
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Because it is by far the lesser of the two problems. The officials' only added duty with the shot clock is to judge if a shot was released before the horn and then subsequently touched the rim. That's not too different from any last shot at the end of a quarter.
The shot clock operator's duties are much more complex and are more often the cause of any problems.
True, the officials should know when the operator has made an error; and they often don't recognize the error at the HS level. But that doesn't make it their error.