What would you do?

[SmokeEater]

Here is the situation. 3rd period and game is about a 6 point difference, fairly competative but not too bad. Your running up the court and hear the crowd yelling that the clock is messed up. When you look up the clock has reset to 10 minutes, (we play 10 minute periods in FIBA) and the last time you looked at the clock you remember it was at 4:33.
You go to your partner and ask if he had a more recent look at the time remaining and get a blank stare. Ask the time keeper what happened and she says I tried to advance the period indicator and it reset. So I ask her did you notice how much time was left? Of course not!

So I ask What do I do?

[just another ref]

Put the 4:33 back up and go from there.

[SmokeEater]

Exactly what I did and then got a supreme dose from the home bench that there was only around 2 minutes left. The crowd was agreeing with the coach but the visitor coach said he had no idea and was good with my decision.

By the way the visitors were actually winning and did win the game so the extra time was in favour of the Home team.

[SmokeEater]

And before anyone says anything, I told the coach I don't listen to the crowd so their opinion didn't mean anything to me.

[Adam]

Originally Posted by SmokeEater

And before anyone says anything, I told the coach I don't listen to the crowd so their opinion didn't mean anything to me.

You did the right thing, nothing else you can do (unless FIBA lets you guess in this situation.)

[Smitty]

Game management - make a habit of looking at the clock more often. If over 2 minutes had passed since you last looked at the scoreboard, that's too long.

[Loudwhistle]

Originally Posted by Smitty

Game management - make a habit of looking at the clock more often. If over 2 minutes had passed since you last looked at the scoreboard, that's too long.

Agreed,
Everytime I inbounds the ball I look up at the clock, youth reffing taught me this (about half the time in youth games a volunteer is doing the clock and sometimes they are texting )

[SmokeEater]

Originally Posted by Smitty

Game management - make a habit of looking at the clock more often. If over 2 minutes had passed since you last looked at the scoreboard, that's too long.

Game management was not the problem. 2 minutes had not run off the clock if anything it may have been a 30 second run without a whistle but I did not have any definate knowledge. Sometimes as you probably know there are back and forth play where you don't actually get a chance to look up at the clock.