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No...I assume you are talking about being the timer here...if you hear the whistle and stop the clock immediately - good for you! Please come be the timer at my games...the lag time guideline is put in there for when we as officials need to put time back on the clock...If I have definite knowledge of the time, I can put it back up there-hence the case of "immediately after blowing the whistle"...if I see the clock as I blow whistle, and clock doesn't stop, I need to allow for one second of reaction time when I put time back up - again, if you can hit the switch and get things stopped faster than that, great...it's just a guideline to follow in those ugly situations when one coach is yelling "5! We should have 5", and the other coach is saying "1! Give them 1 second"...
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