Mercy Rule Help

[SNIPERBBB]

To be simple, it really ought to be when the clock would start had there not been this rule, ie once the ball is touched after a missed try or after touched on the throwin after a made basket.

[Camron Rust]

Originally Posted by SNIPERBBB

To be simple, it really ought to be when the clock would start had there not been this rule, ie once the ball is touched after a missed try or after touched on the throwin after a made basket.

Given the purpose of the mercy rule, I suggest starting it when the ball is put back in play....when becomes live on the FT.

[SNIPERBBB]

If I wqs doing a tournament id start it after the second horn.

[Adam]

Originally Posted by Camron Rust

Given the purpose of the mercy rule, I suggest starting it when the ball is put back in play....when becomes live on the FT.

Without sufficient guidance from the state that states otherwise, this is what I would do.

[crosscountry55]

I've run across this same dilemma in a multitude of youth games that employ a running clock. I've never seen any running clock rule (youth game, camp game, or HS mercy rule) specify how such a situation is to be treated. So without guidance and in consideration of the paltry pay usually at stake, I generally could care less how the timer chooses to interpret the rule.

More often than not, most timers seem to defer to the "start it when it would have started absent the rule" methodology. I have seen some coaches intentionally call timeout during free throws for the express purpose of saving as much time as possible, knowing that the clock will remain stopped during the FTs after the TO.