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Old Wed Feb 01, 2012, 04:43pm
Camron Rust Camron Rust is offline
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Originally Posted by Smitty View Post
Me too. I'd much rather explain to both coaches before we put the ball in play that there are .3 seconds or less and only a tap can score, than have one coach know that there was .3 and we allowed the other team to catch and shoot because the clock operator was a half second slow in starting the clock.
That is exactly what I have done and will continue to do after checking the clock's primary display...."coaches, there are 0.5 seconds left."
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