Lag Time

[johnnyrao]

I worked the consolation game of a varsity tournament last night. Team A is down by 1 and has the ball with about 8 seconds left. After inbounding A1 hits a jumper from the foul line for the go ahead bucket. The crowd erupts and it is very loud. I was trail and, anticipating a TO by Team B, I glanced at the B bench (they were the farther bench from us). The coach was signalling wildly for a TO. The trail couldn't see it because he had his back to B's bench and he certainly couldn't hear it because of the crowd. I blew the whistle and looked at the clock. This gym has portable baskets with the clock on top of the backboard so I looked immediately to the far basket. I saw 1.0 seconds. The clock then ran down to 0:00. We got together an discussed it. The C said he looked at the clock when my whistle blew and it said 0.8. The T said he thought he saw 1.4 but was not completely sure. I know that when I saw the TO sign the clock was at 1.0. By the time my whistle blew it was probably at 0.8 so the C was also right. Anyway, we put 1.0 on the clock and continued. Team B through it out of bounds and Team A won by 1 so it did not affect the game outcome. But, should we have just ended the game due to lag time principles? If the only "definite knowledge" was 1.0 seconds then shouldn't the second that ticked off after my whistle be allowed? Or were we correct in putting 1.0 back on the clock?