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Originally Posted by Snaqwells
Only what you see tick off after you blow the whistle. If you blow your whistle, and look up and see the clock shows 2.8 seconds, you set the clock to 2.8 seconds. If you look up and see 1.2 seconds, that's what you set it to. If, by the time you look up, it shows zero, then the game is over.
Anything else is guessing, and guessing isn't allowed.
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Well, I'm not quite so sure it's guessing but I can certainly count one second in my head. If, in a last second situation, I may not have the time to look up at the clock before the horn blows or it takes a second after I made the call to turn my head to the clock. Again, I can count a second in my head. And then i can divide a second in half to half a second. In any event, i know there's time left, I just don't know how much. Since we're working with a second, I don't see your point. I call it a calculated response, not a guess and I don't think either sides will argue my reasoning. However, there will be controversy if you don't put some time back on the clock. Saying you didn't see the clock so therefore the game is over is not gonna fly, not even in my so-called rec league games.
I'm just keeping it real dawg....some people don't like the truth, some people can't handle the truth. Which one or you? The truth is, refereeing is not a perfect science.