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Originally posted by Hawks Coach
Went to nations largest holiday tournament this last week. Interesting, and I believe excellent, refereeing at end of girls' championship. 2.2 seconds left, Team A up 1 and at line for 1-1. Team B lets ref know they want immediate timeout on a miss. A misses front-end, B rebounds and gets immediate TO. 1.4 seconds now show. B is screaming for more time, ref lets stand - reaction time, right? Then ball is inbounded, player dribbles around defender, whistle blows, shot is released, horn sounds. Ref signals no shot, he had clock, game over. (shot missed anyway, but B is now really happy feeling that they weren't given legit chance). I originally thought this too was great reffing, as the ref should be keeping clock in his head at end of game. But I have never seen a game end like this, it all happened very fast and I was left wondering if a ref should be trying to count 1.4 seconds. Thoughts.
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First of all, the coach is lucky he got the TO when he did. I thought that you could "warn" the officials that you are going to take a timeout, but you have to call it when you actually want it. Looking at it from another angle, the clock had to start before the TO could be granted. If the clock were running, the whistle blew at 2.2 seconds, and the clock stopped at 1.4, that is within the 1 second lag-time (which I don't agree with but follow).
As to waving off the shot, it depends. No one can count tenths of a second mentally. However if a good 2-3 seconds go by with no horn, it can safely be said that the game is over in this situation.