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Originally Posted by Bad Zebra
At a bare minimum, if the trail official was doing his job, he would have been counting (visibly and silently?) as the ball was being brought to mid court.
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He should've been counting, yes, but it's understandable that he was not because there were only 9.7 seconds left in the game. So he was probably thinking (correctly) that it's not possible to have a 10-second backcourt violation. So why count?
Well, this exact situation is why we should count the last 10 seconds or so, even if there's no rulebook reason to count.