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Old Thu Jan 19, 2012, 09:02pm
Camron Rust Camron Rust is offline
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Originally Posted by Cobra View Post
Visible counting showing up on video doesn't really even matter. Anyone watching on video will be able to use a watch to see how much time elapsed between when the clock should have started and when the official stopped the game. You will either either be right or be wrong; either you stopped the game before the 4 seconds expired or after. No one is going to care that your arm was moving. No player is going to say "well it was actually only 3.7 seconds but him arm moved 4 times so I should have noticed and shot the ball quicker."
No, they will know you didn't guess....that you based any adjustment on a count they could easily see you had.
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