1 hand or 2 hands?

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Originally posted by Camron Rust

#5. Gotta make some signal for the timer to start the clock. The hand up that falls at the first touch give the timer something clear to focus on rather than a hand that flashes up and down in a moment. Since there must be a signal to start the clock, do you have a better one?

If you believe that the normal average timer is watching for the hand to chop instead of when THEY see the ball touched to start the clock, I guess you believe in the easter bunny too. Reality is, regardless of what they are told before the game, the timer works the clock on whne s/he perceives the ball is touched. Maybe that is why at the progressive upper levels (NBA,WNBA,NCAA women) the hand is not up on the throw-in. There is a count and a chop of some kind with the same hand when it is touched, not that the chop is looked at during these games either