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If at first you don't succeed . . .
BJV I toss the ball to start the game, V gains posession, clock doesn't start. I stop the game, have the time set to 7:57, sideline throwin for V. Throwin is caught by V2, dribble, no clock start. I stop the game, again, re-set the clock and this time it gets started correctly.
End of first half: 5.3 seconds, H throwin in front of their bench. I bounce the ball to the thrower, and the clock starts! I stop the game, have the timer re-set the time (a young lady, who is now working the clock, because the young man who started the game, as the timer, just couldn't get it right). I instruct her to start the clock when I chop with my hand.
The pass leaves the thrower's hands, on a pass to a teammate across the court, and the clock starts . . . Re-set to 5.3. I get well-acquainted with the timer, explaining that my hand is magic, and that she absolutely cannot start the clock until my hand moves. Finally, it works! And the last second shot was unsuccessful.
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To be good at a sport, one must be smart enough to play the game -- and dumb enough to think that it's important . . . 
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