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This actually happened with my team this summer, tournament with Varsity officials. we make a shot to pull within 2, no timeouts left. My A1 that scored catches the ball as it comes through the net with about 4 seconds left. He pretends to throw the ball to B1 waiting out of bounds, but "misses" him by about 10 feet and sends the ball towards the doorway. Official calls a delay of game warning, clock stops at 2.4 seconds. With the clock stopped and a chance to set up, B1 throws the ball away out-of-bounds by half court, the ball is untouched by either team. We get the ball under our own basket, 2.4 left on the clock. We run the old screen-the-screener inbound play, but A1 breaks off the play and sprints to the corner. He is wide open for the 3pt shot, but pump fakes upon catching the ball. B1 jumps to block the shot and lands on A1 as he is shooting the 3pter. foul called as time expires, A1 makes all three free-throws to win the game.
As we are walking off the court, the official says to me "that delay of game was a smart play. did you teach him that?"
I respond "I remember reading that you're supposed to not call that and just let the clock run out, but we'll take the W"
officials says "why would we call something differently at the end of the game from what we would call in the beginning of the game? that's a point of emphasis"
I respond "I don't know, I just remember reading something like that, about the end of the game delay to stop the clock. look that up for me"
He actually did on of my games a week or so ago but I forgot to ask him if he looked it up. I know I did!
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