[Jurassic Referee]

Originally Posted by refhoops

I do not beleive this is a big issue if you have clock awareness. Since here in California we have a shot clock, this last season a point of emphasis for me was both shot clock and game clock awareness. Second to last game of season, rivalry game between teams 3 miles apart. Full gym, incredibily load, hard to hear any whissles at end of the game. I am L, home scores with less than 2 seconds to play, I widen out, I am in perfect alignment with clock and visiting coach, he calls a TO with 1.4. I call TO, but nobody hears, home team thinks they have won game, fans storm court. We clear the court, put .8 on clock, explain to home coach that I had definite knowledge and we will put .8 on clock, does not question decision too much, put .8 on clock and play out the game-after 3 timeouts.

What am I missing here?

Your "definite knowledge" on this play was that the TO was called with 1.4 seconds on the clock. Why didn't you just put 1.4 seconds back on the clock? How could you have any kind of "definite knowledge" at all on this play that would enable you to put 0.8 seconds on the clock?

The only real definite knowledge that you have on this play, as far as I can see, is 1.4 seconds.