A question

[Bad Zebra]

Originally Posted by MisterV

... Team B is in-bounding under A's basket. As team B is coming up the court, the clock is not running. In my estimation, 5-6 seconds go by. ..

At a bare minimum, if the trail official was doing his job, he would have been counting (visibly and silently?) as the ball was being brought to mid court. He could have taken AT LEAST that amount of time off the game clock as it was "specific information" he could have used to correct a timing error. Help me out here esteemed members, but isn't that the gist of the new Fed rule this year?

[MisterV]

The timekeeper is a very good guy who thought he was doing the right thing. This game was at our place and he has done a great job for us in the past. He just had one of those moments. I'm just glad that as a coach I have never done anything stupid like that. HA! (I won't even mention the fact that I accidentally caused one of my own players to commit a lane violation right before this incident, which wiped out a potentially game-icing free-throw.)

Actually, I saw him the next night at a HS game and he said that he should have notified the officials when he originally let the 6 seconds run off. I just nodded my head and thought to myself, "Why couldn't you think of this last night when I was desparate?"

[Scrapper1]

Originally Posted by Bad Zebra

At a bare minimum, if the trail official was doing his job, he would have been counting (visibly and silently?) as the ball was being brought to mid court.

He should've been counting, yes, but it's understandable that he was not because there were only 9.7 seconds left in the game. So he was probably thinking (correctly) that it's not possible to have a 10-second backcourt violation. So why count?

Well, this exact situation is why we should count the last 10 seconds or so, even if there's no rulebook reason to count.

[jkjenning]

Everybody learned, as is typical in a MS tournament.
I'm sure the officials have realized several ways they could have avoided/corrected that situation and will be more mindful of the clock in the future; your clock keeper certainly thought about it afterwards.
If this was the last of several games in a row, couple inexperience with the probability that everyone may have been a bit mentally fatigued, especially with the outcome apprently not in doubt [6 point lead in a girls' 8th grade game with less than 10 seconds!] and an ending that is 'less than clean' is understandable. As a coach, you handled it well, but some time certainly should have been run off the clock.