[Jurassic Referee]

Originally Posted by SMEngmann

Just as a clarification on what happened. There was a play right in front of the scorer's table where the ball was awkwardly saved from going OOB. The scorekeeper, who was paid table crew, said that he inadvertantly hit the stop button thinking the ball was OOB and then immediately restarted once he recognized his error. He readily offered that he made that error and was apologetic and embarrassed, he is neither incompetent nor a cheat, he just made a very rare mistake at an inopportune time.

As a crew, we discussed the situation and definitively determined that the clock had stopped based on what the scorekeeper said. The decision was eventually made, based on a strict interpretation of the rules, to count the basket because we had no way of definitively knowing when exactly the clock stopped, and for how long it stopped, so we could not definitively say that the shot would not have counted.


Just interested in some thoughts on if you think we could've better handled the situation and still been within the rules.

My thought is that you couldn't have handled it any better. You handled it by rule. You have to use the tools that you have.

Good job. Not to worry.