Another clock error, shot made situation.

[SamIAm]

Originally Posted by Jerry Blum

I had a very similar sitch happen on Tuesday. Frosh game, end of 1 st qtr. We got 2.5 seconds on clock. Home team has the throw in from endline. Player throws ball in towards division line , ball starts pinballing around . I started a 10 second backcourt count -got to 2 look up clock not moving. I tweet and end the qtr. home coach starts to cry a lil bit i explain I counted ,he leaves it alone.

The scoreclock operator was the home team varsity coach. I start walking towards table and he has got this little smirk on his face, like a kid with his hand in the cookie jar......

Originally Posted by Chess Ref

As another contributing factor, they were having problems with the clock operator. He hadn't wanted to reset the clock at one point even though the officials had knowledge of what the time should have been. Plus A was the home team and this ended up being a little bit of a homer clock operator problem.

Why would you not have asked for a new scorer/timer before you got to the sticky sitchs at the end.

[Chess Ref]

My reasons were two fold. One was the only people around were the JV team and he was the head coach....The second was it didn't make that much of a difference in the game. His frosh team was losing by 25 or so. They ended up losing by 38.....

Though I will definetly put that into my bag of options.......

[KCRef]

Let's say that you are the third player to touch the ball in this scenario, and just before you get passed the ball, you see that there are still 3.5 seconds on the clock, so instead of shooting, you make one more pass in order to get a better shot. Then the ref blows the whistle with 3 seconds left on the clock. Should the players not rely on the clock in situations like this?