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Score is 51-52 and there are three seconds on the clock. WITH cant a coach trust their experienced players to do the right thing. The players know what the score is and at that point need to win it or lose it on thier own.
I had a game earlier this year. 3 point ball game with 7 seconds left to go. second of 2 FT's by A ws missed. B grabs the ball comes up the floor. Everybody in the place knows that its a 3 or go home. Point guard gets ball and gets to top of key, as point guard starts up, my partner blows a whistle, Team B is calling time out. Whistle blew well before shot was away. The nearly uncontested 3 goes straight through the net... Coach then sets up one of the dunbest plays I have ever seen with 3 or so seconds on the clock and the shot doesnt even draw iron.
In the OP maybe one of the officials should have seen the clock but I see nothing by rule these guys did wrong. Coach should learn 1) to trust their players 2) and learn the rules. In her interview stated
even though it’s a correctable error. Oh really under what provision is this correctable?
The article claims the shooter hit the shot at 3.8... I wonder where they got that from the synchronized clock with the video feed?
Dont blame the officials for a stupid coaching mistake. She stated with .3 seconds she never would have called time out Oh really didnt I just see a Big Sky game that tried something along the same line?
Do you think she was actually looking at the clock? She also stated there must have been at least 2 seconds (nice even number)? Nice guess on reaction time... What we dont know as Paul Harvey called it the " rest of the story"...
Did the whistle blow correctly and the time so enthralled in a tight game forgot to shut the clock off? We'll never know..
No one watched the clock (not great game management but understandable given a one point game going to the buzzer. Who is not to say thy did not look up at that point in time and see the clock stopped?
No matter what I think it was handled right by rule, If the coaches dont like the rules they can
1) get Precisiontime on the floor (even that's not infallible)
2) ensure that every game has an official video feed with an appropriate DVR synchronized with the game clock with the appropriate courtside monitor ( go to the school district with that request...some schools can't get a second scoreboard)
3) Pay a proessional to run the standardized equipment
4) Change the rule to allow us to use the equipment.
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