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Originally Posted by Jorrflv
In a game tonight there was 4 seconds left when teem A stole the ball. The player proceeded down court and was called for a traveling violation. The whistle blew and the clock was stopped with .9 seconds left. The coach from team B complained that too much time ran off the clock. The officials conferred and the clock was reset to 3.9 seconds. First of all the officials were not looking at the clock and had no clue. Correct me if I am wrong, but in high school can an official add time like that? There is no way he would know wat to reset it too.
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Yes, officials can correct timing errors.
When resetting any clock, they should have definite knowledge of what to set it to.
Especially in cases at the end of a quarter, the non-calling official should look at the clock when his partner sounds the whistle. (You're supposed to do it all game long, but I understand if > 50% don't do this.)
But to only take off 0.1 seconds certainly isn't correct. You can't catch and travel within 1/10th of a second.