I believe as an official I would look at the circumstances to see if I would put the time back on the clock, while no single error occured, a collection of circumstances caused time to come off the clock when it should not have run. If a team is down by three or less and that second could be vital to the outcome of a shot, I would award the time. I have been taught as an official that we are not to go by the letter of the rule all the time but we should go by the spirit of the rule. (If we went by the letter of the rule, we would call a lot more fouls). While no one could be blamed for doing their job, no one on the court does his/her job independent of anyone else and the time should go back on the clock. As HawksCoach said, easier sell for the officials. Refs conferance, come back out and tell coaches, one second goes back on the clock if it would really matter.
Just my opinion, shoot at will! :-)
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