The timekeeper is a very good guy who thought he was doing the right thing. This game was at our place and he has done a great job for us in the past. He just had one of those moments. I'm just glad that as a coach I have never done anything stupid like that. HA! (I won't even mention the fact that I accidentally caused one of my own players to commit a lane violation right before this incident, which wiped out a potentially game-icing free-throw.)
Actually, I saw him the next night at a HS game and he said that he should have notified the officials when he originally let the 6 seconds run off. I just nodded my head and thought to myself, "Why couldn't you think of this last night when I was desparate?"
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