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Tee, I must agree with you whole-heartedly. I worked the clock for a few of the state championship games this year and believe that it was a very helpful experience. It is harder than one would think because you must concentrate on your job and not watch the game or the officials. It was my first time working the clock, so I did mess up twice. Once I forgot to stop the clock on an out-of-bounds and in another game I hit the horn for a substitution after the free thrower already had the ball. I bought that crew a beer.
I certainly will be much nicer to those on the table from now on and more understanding of their mistakes. I believe that this should be part of all officials training. One or two games a year would be plenty.
PS A bit of info: in MD the alternate official keeps the scorebook for playoff games, but the school still provides the timekeeper.
[Edited by Nevadaref on Apr 17th, 2003 at 04:14 AM]
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