Do you? or Don't you?

rainmaker · #6 (**permalink**) Fri Jan 09, 2004, 11:03am

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Originally posted by bob jenkins

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Originally posted by rainmaker
Rich, that is the rule, and I agree with you that it's a little strange, but it's how we're supposed to do it. In terms of actual practice, it's almost impossible to get those tenths back on the clock correctly. The one game where I was watching and they were trying to get the tenths back up on the baord, the refs kept making the timer try again and again, until the coaches said, "Forget it!" That's how they handled it.

(Of course, this assumes that the clock can't just be set to tenths of seconds ...)

Set the clock to the next highest whole second. If using a hand-held device to time (like a remote), put one thumb on the "on" side of the swith and one on the "off" side of the switch. Turn the clock on-and-off as fast as you can ("ba-bump"). In practice, this will usually be .1 second. Repeat the on-and-off as needed to get to the correct time.

Another useful little piece of detail to add to the "bag of tricks."