What would you do?

[Jurassic Referee]

Originally Posted by chartrusepengui

If you read - I agreed that with that little amount of time left, I would chop and count however - my point still is that with .4 seconds (not 1.4 or 2. 6 or even .8) and if they "fumbled" the catch - that .4 would be gone. Period. If you can't catch with .3 or less - you certainly can't fumble or bobble and not have it be .4 or less!

By rule though, 0.4 seconds on the clock is completely irrelevant as to whether a try is good or not. That's Nevada's (correct) point. By rule, you go by the horn when determining if the shot is in the air or not. Whether the clock started correctly or not is a whole different rule(timing mistake). In that case, a count might help you determine what to do if you felt that the clock wasn't started correctly.

In the case above with 0.4 seconds on the clock, if the ball is in the air when the horn goes, and you don't have definite information as to whether the clock was started properly or not, the rules say that you do have to count the basket.