[Mark T. DeNucci, Sr.]

1) I misread the original play.

2) The casebook play specifically states that lag time is between the whistle and the clock stopping and should never be more that one second.

3) Many times we are lucky to get a look at the clock at the same time of the violation.

My point was to show that officials have to react to the play before he sounds his whistle and that timers have to react to official's whistle before his finger flips the switch. No one wants a lazy timer, but the 1.8 seconds in the posting is a good example of what Bill Russell use to describe and a "long" one second and a "short" one second. For you youthful officials out there, Bill Russell use the be the color commentator for ABC Sports NBA Game of the Week in the early 70's, before the advent of game clocks with tenths of a second displays.