Oh Boy! we have a mess!

[truerookie]

Originally Posted by Ron Pilo

Tie game at 51. A1 shooting a 1 and 1 with 4.1 left. B1 that fouled has 5 and scorers table is trying to get the officials attention (without the horn), the officials don't hear it and the free throw takes place. A1 misses but scorers table doesn't start the clock (as they are still trying to get the officials attention for the fifth foul). The ball is tipped to A2 who pump fakes and goes back up and scores. Then Officials realize there is a problem.

What do you do?

Put 2.1 on the scoreboard B throw -in anywhere along endline.

[jdw3018]

Originally Posted by truerookie

Put 2.1 on the scoreboard B throw -in anywhere along endline.

How in the world do you put 2.1 on the scoreboard?

[bob jenkins]

Originally Posted by jdw3018

How in the world do you put 2.1 on the scoreboard?

Huh?

Most clocks that display 1/10s of seconds can be set to 1/10s of seconds.

If not, set it to 3.0 and run it down (a real quick on-off will usually be 1/10 of a second -- and I don't need any comments from Padgett on that statement)

[Adam]

Originally Posted by bob jenkins

Huh?

Most clocks that display 1/10s of seconds can be set to 1/10s of seconds.

If not, set it to 3.0 and run it down (a real quick on-off will usually be 1/10 of a second -- and I don't need any comments from Padgett on that statement)

He meant, "Why in the world do you put 2.1 seconds on the scoreboard?" There was initially 4.1 seconds. Why take 2 seconds off?

[bob jenkins]

Originally Posted by Snaqwells

He meant, "Why in the world do you put 2.1 seconds on the scoreboard?" There was initially 4.1 seconds. Why take 2 seconds off?

"Why" and "How" are synonyms?

Lah me.

[Adam]

Originally Posted by bob jenkins

"Why" and "How" are synonyms?

Lah me.

Thank you.

[jdw3018]

Originally Posted by bob jenkins

"Why" and "How" are synonyms?

Lah me.

I've gotta say thanks to those who understood what I was attempting to ask and apologize to those I confused.

A more appropriate way to ask would have been "why two seconds" or "how would an official determine 2 seconds had elapsed in the OP."

[udbomber]

If you had a count on as a referee, that is definite knowledge of how much time to take off.

If you ever have a count on and the clock does not match your count, you cannot adjust the clock to the violation at hand. For example, if the ball is taken out of bounds on a full court press with 15 seconds remaining and you whistled a 10 second backcourt violation with 2 seconds now remaining on the clock, you cannot reset the clock to 5 seconds to match the stopped clock with the 10 second violation.

Your count is the definite knowledge you have to go by so in the scenario posted, you could take off 2 seconds from the closely guarded count. It was a merited free throw so it stands and there was no erroneous information from the official so you now replace the disqualified player with B running the baseline for a throw-in.
I love this game.
Alan

Originally Posted by udbomber

If you had a count on as a referee, that is definite knowledge of how much time to take.

The problem I've always had with using the count as "definite knowledge" is that the majority of counts are always several seconds slow. I guess you could say you know you've had at least that much time run off. But nobody does a visible count in real time.

In this case, I'd count the basket, leave the 4.1 seconds on the clock and let the other team inbounds the ball. If you do anything else with the clock, you're just guessing.