End of game timing Q

[crosscountry55]

Originally Posted by BlueDevilRef

I assume this would really only happen when there are tenths left but they aren't displayed?

Not necessarily. I once had it happen with less than 0.1 remaining (end of quarter situation). The console read 0.03. That said, mathematically this situation occurs ten times less often than it would on a clock that does NOT display tenths.

Best part was it was on a held ball. Team with the arrow got 0.03s for a backcourt throw in, then didn't get the arrow to start the next quarter. Had I been the coach, I would have told my thrower to intentionally commit a throw in violation!




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[bob jenkins]

Originally Posted by crosscountry55

Had I been the coach, I would have told my thrower to intentionally commit a throw in violation!

What good would that do? The team would still lose the arrow.

[BlueDevilRef]

Thanks odog. I was mistakenly thinking about this thing. Of course what you said is correct. I'm losing it.

[Raymond]

Originally Posted by crosscountry55

Not necessarily. I once had it happen with less than 0.1 remaining (end of quarter situation). The console read 0.03. That said, mathematically this situation occurs ten times less often than it would on a clock that does NOT display tenths.

Best part was it was on a held ball. Team with the arrow got 0.03s for a backcourt throw in, then didn't get the arrow to start the next quarter. Had I been the coach, I would have told my thrower to intentionally commit a throw in violation!




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You mean you would have put a scrub in the game and had them commit a team control foul before the throw-in ended.

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[crosscountry55]

Originally Posted by bob jenkins

What good would that do? The team would still lose the arrow.

You're right. I outthought myself. Because I was writing before I had my first cup of coffee, I somehow imagined that the subsequent throw-in would also be an AP throw in.

Duh.


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[crosscountry55]

Originally Posted by BadNewsRef

You mean you would have put a scrub in the game and had them commit a team control foul before the throw-in ended.

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Yes. What he said.


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[Altor]

Originally Posted by Camron Rust

I once had a game where the a foul or violation was called (OOB?) just as tie was expiring for the quarter. It was so close to the horn that the horn had just started sounding but the stopping of the clock was so quickly after that you barely heard a blip from the horn. I was puzzled for a moment before realizing what happened. I don't remember the exact play, but time had expired and if we were not listening carefully or it had been noisy, we would have never heard the horn.

I was about 13 years old working the "foul board" for a JV Boys contest (the foul board had a separate console from the main scoreboard/clock for some reason). As time was expiring in the 2Q, a held ball is called. The clock reads 0:00 and the only people in the gym who heard the shortest horn in the world were me and the home coach (who was my industrial arts teacher).

He plead his case to the official for a moment that the horn sounded, but the official disagreed. And the home team reluctantly made the AP throw-in and didn't get a shot off.

I was a good table official and kept my mouth shut until Monday morning when I told him that I too heard the horn, but didn't feel it was appropriate to speak up. He thanked me for letting him know he wasn't hearing things and agreed that I was correct in not saying anything at the time.