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Originally Posted by JRutledge
This example was an actual picture of the game clock where the clock was a .01 off from the shot clock. Not talking about the graphic clock that is on many games you see in both football and basketball that is apart of the of the graphics score that is on the bottom.
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I believe that is correct and what I saw when watching the game last night. There was a camera on the actual game clock on the scoreboard and this picture was inset on the video of the game coverage. Therefore, in the replay one can see both the game clock in the lower corner of the screen ticking down as well as the game clock next to the shot clock above the backboard, and they do not match. The one on the shot clock is 0.1 of a second ahead of the other.
My initial reaction watching the game at live speed was that the try was not released in time. After seeing the replays, I can't believe how close it really was. He either got it off by at tenth or he just didn't depending upon which clock one elects to use. I truly don't know what I would have done if faced with that situation. I would likely have gone with whichever had been designated as the official timepiece prior to the game by the R. I could then contend that the other clocks are advisory, but not official. It seems that the officials on this game did something like that.