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Old Fri Mar 24, 2006, 03:24pm
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Originally Posted by rulesmaven

Second, and more important, what Bilas said was something like, "when the clock gets to 25 it's clear that it's a 10 second violation." Actually, isn't that wrong? I assume the shot clock works like the game clock, so that when it scrolls from 26 to 25, really only 9 seconds have elapsed. It's not until the instant that it changes from 25 to 24 that 10 seconds have elapsed.
No, that's not true. Using that philosophy, there would still be 1 second remaining on the clock after it hits 0.
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10 seconds has expired when the clock hits 25.

35 - 10 = 25

I hope that clears it up for you.
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