Inadvertant horn

[Rich]

Originally Posted by jTheUmp

Opening jump ball to start the game... clock operator mistakenly sounds the horn rather than starting the clock when the ball is touched. Then, realizing her error, she starts the clock.

Whatcha gonna do?

Depends....what did the players do?

(If it affected the jump...I'd be tempted to put 18 minutes back up and throw it up again.)

[jTheUmp]

Originally Posted by Rich

Depends....what did the players do?

(If it affected the jump...I'd be tempted to put 18 minutes back up and throw it up again.)

It did affect the jump... one of the jumpers basically stopped trying for the ball when the horn went off, and the rest of the players stopped playing.

And I did exactly what you suggest. (I was U1). I've never seen a clock operator so apologetic.

[crosscountry55]

Originally Posted by jTheUmp

I've never seen a clock operator so apologetic.

That means she cared. So she's welcome to work my table every day of the week and twice on Sundays.

It annoys me when you have timers and scorers, albeit who may do a very good job, but whose body language suggests it's the last place in the world they want to be.

[jTheUmp]

Agreed.

And it could be worse... she could've sounded the horn while a visiting team player was in the midst of her free throw shooting motion (which did actually happen to me awhile back... I think there's a thread about it somewhere).