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Originally Posted by tjones1
What's the difference if it was caught or tapped? The clock should have started as soon as the ball was touched. In both situations, I would say you take the same amount of time off the clock regardless if it was caught or tapped.
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The assumption has to be that something was done with the ball when it was caught in bounds. The point of .3 is that a person cannot catch a ball and begin anything (shooting, throwing, dribbling, etc.) utilizing less than .3 seconds. Hence, if they caught the ball, .3. I would have no issue with assessing .3 for a tap either.
Granting benefit of the doubt, and having to assume that the ref caught the mistake at the moment the ball was touched, I suppose that a very good clock operator could actually turn the clock on and off in less than .3 seconds. Even with precision timing and 2 officials working on synchronization I doubt many could do it in less than .2 seconds.
The only one thing we absolutely do know is that some time went off the clock. I'm simply suggesting how these assumed tenths can be assessed without merely guessing. Again, 1/10th of a second is negligible in anyone's book.