Good or No Good?

[Gimlet25id]

Originally Posted by buffett

The prior posts have covered how to handle that situation well. I will answer the question from a different angle. Earlier this season I was in a game that had .5 seconds on the clock and the offensive team with the ball and behind by one point. During the timeout, we convened as a crew and went over our responsibilties on the final play. My partner(tableside L) who was handling the throw-in told us after he put the ball in play he would check the clock to be sure it started properly. The player who caught the inbounds pass turned and fired up a prayer. The horn blew while the ball was in the air and on its way to the winning shot. I thought his plan to watch the clock start on was a great idea. I will keep that in my bag of tricks for future games.

I think we all would agree that we have to be good clock managers. With this play they weren't and they had a made basket with no time off the clock. The question is what should the referee's do?