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Originally Posted by Jurassic Referee
The whistle is not really relevant because the clock never started. A whistle is supposed to stop the clock, but whistles can be late also. You can't stop something that was never going in the first place.
The amount of time used, by rule, is the time lapsed from the ball being legally touched in-bounds by the Memphis player until the ball then touches something-anything-out of bounds. To try and get an accurate reading, they put the stopwatch on it-- clicked it on at the Memphis touch and then clicked it off when it touched something out of bounds. They probably did that several times to make sure that 1.1 seconds was a good, representative time. That's probably the only way that they can come up with a fairly accurate time. That's my take on it anyway.
Good job by the officials imo.
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I agree with the outcome. It seemed to me to be about a second between the legal touching inbounds and the touching OB.
With the early whistle, it could be construed that the T thought the ball went OB on the bounce inbounds thereby changing the timing issue.