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Originally Posted by ranjo
The next thing happened after a foul on a post player - The player walked to the line to shoot two awarded free throws, then grabed his knee and went to the floor. The coach was beckened, came onto the floor, and told his players to help their teamate to the bench. A substitute entered and took the free throws.
I feel the player faked the injury to get a high percentage free throw shooter to take his shots.( It was a one point game at the time) When I talked to my partner about it after the game I told him that since I did not have any history of that particular player or coach doing it before, I was compelled to ere on the side of caution.
Anybody had this happen to them before?
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No. But, there is nothing you can do. If the player or coach says the player is too injured to play, they come out. I doubt the NFHS will ever put the officials in the position of forcing a player claimed to be injured to remain in the game. If it becomes too much of a problem, they'll probably go with a rule that allows the opposing coach to select the FT shooter...of course that player just might pull a muscle on the way to the line.
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Originally Posted by ranjo
Third incident happened during an overtime period. 1.2 seconds showing on the clock, home team down two points with a throw in from the visitors end line.
Home team inbounds the ball which hits a defender and bounces out of bounds on the sideline. I look at the clock and it still shows 1.2 seconds. The attempted inbound has happened so quickly, I haven't even chopped in the time.
Visiting team coach insists there should be some time taken off the clock. I explain that with a manual timing system there will be some lag in getting the clock started, and that I could not accurately say how many tenths of a second have expired on the throw in.
We keep the 1.2 seconds, the ball is thrown in, a shot taken and missed, visitors win by two.
Would anybody have done it any differently?
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Yes. Since the timer is authorized by rule to start the clock without a signal from the official, there was a timer's mistake (Rule 5-9 and 5-10, from an older book....may be different numbers now).
Count everything when time is winding down. If you use 1001, 1002, 1003 to meter your counts, each syllable (if you phrase it evenly) is 0.25 seconds.
For example, if you have One-Thou-Sand-One-One-Thou-STOP, you have 1.5 seconds.
Remember that official's counts, accurate or not, are official. Of course, accuracy is desireable....make sure your counts (5's, 10's, etc.) are accurate and you can depend on any count you need to apply.