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Old Thu Jan 01, 2009, 04:42pm
bob jenkins bob jenkins is offline
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Originally Posted by LeeBallanfant View Post
Not when the ball is deflected out of bounds and the shot clock shows 10+ seconds elapsed. Of course, you can always blame the shot clock timer for starting too early.
Let me rephrase -- it's never worse to be at 11 than to be at 9.

While the official in your example would catch some grief, so would the official who called a violation when the shot clock showes 9 seconds elapsed.

(all assuming immediate control and a proper shot clock, of course).
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