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Originally Posted by Jurassic Referee
Yabut....hw do you know for a fact that the shot would have been released before the horn should have gone off? If there was...say....0.4 seconds left on the clock when you blew your whistle, can you honestly say that the shooter would have definitely finished his shooting motion and got the ball airborne within that 0.4 seconds? And if you don't know exactly how much time was on the clock when you blew your whistle, how can you really "know for a fact" that the ball would have been in the air before the buzzer anyway?
The bottom line is that, if you don't know exactly how much time was left in the period when you blew your whistle and you can't also accurately keep track of the time remaining from that whistle to the end of the period to be 100% sure that the ball was in the air before the horn, then you are doing nothing but guessing from the time your whistle went off. And, unless you can find me a rule somewhere that says you're allowed to guess, then you have to go with the facts imo. And the only facts that you do know are that you don't know how much time to accurately put back on the clock and the ball was not in the air when the horn went to end the period. Then.....you just have to apply existing rules to the facts that you do possess.
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It doesn't matter how long it takes to release the shot. Blowing my whistle should stop the clock. If the clock stops as it is supposed to, the horn doesn't go off until some time after the free throw.