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Originally Posted by Nevadaref
As for the 8 second violation, remember that they use the shot clock to make this call, not the game clock. That is important here because PRIOR to resuming the game with the throw-in in the backcourt, LAC had possession of the ball inbounds and took a TO. Therefore, a second or two came off both the game clock and the shot clock while they had possession in the backcourt before the TO. When this is added to the 6.8 which you state came off after resuming play, the 8 second call is shown to be clearly correct. Two final points on this: 1. in the NBA the team does NOT receive a new 8 seconds to advance the ball following a TO or OOB as they do in NFHS and NCAA play. 2. The game clock was actually reset to 31 seconds following the call as the officials were able to determine with the table crew what was on the game clock when the shot clock started down from 24.
In short, they got this one right.
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That's why I thought it looked odd. I didn't realize that some time already came off the clock: I had my face covered in chicken wings at the time. When I looked up, I quickly did a subtraction and came up with 6.8.
So the table crew said the possession started with 39 then. That's cool.