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Originally Posted by Coach Bill
 I know. 1.6 is weird, right? I think maybe they stopped it after the basket by mistake at 5.3, that is why the official is so adamant he saw exactly 5.3, and then the timer said oops, i wasn't supposed to stop it, and started it again, and then stopped it on his 5-second count whistle. I would like to hear more of the conversation with the table. |
Why are you making this so complicated??? Official glances at the clock when he starts his count, clock reads 5.3.
Official begins his count and at count 5 realizes the clock was stopped at 1.6. 1.6 is irrelevant.
Official has definitive knowledge that 5 seconds has run. Officials last knowledge of the time was 5.3 (which anyone who can read a clock can see the tenths, once again its not rocket science).
Official takes the 5.3 seconds and subtracts the 5 seconds he knows ran off the clock and that is left with .3 seconds.
So this process isn't that hard, it's simple subtraction. What the timer doesn't matter compared to what the official knows.