Clock Situation?????

[jdmara]

Originally Posted by JugglingReferee

Sometimes we have to earn our pay. Step up, use your b_lls and make the call.

Oh I never bring my own balls, I make the school furnish them

Originally Posted by Snaqwells

Agreed. It's an easier call if you can send them to overtime by rule. Let them finish it on the court.

Slightly more difficult to count the basket and give the defense the ball, down by one, with one second left. They should have played better defense.

Much more difficult if you have to take the basket away and end the game with the final offensive team down by one.

Oddly enough, leaving 11 seconds on the clock, counting the basket, and giving the ball to the non-scoring team may not be a bad option either, from a common sense perspective. While I don't find the argument that the rule support this response very persuasive, I can see the appeal of the solution.

It is a toughy. It's definitely one of those situations I hope to avoid in my career. Thanks to discussions like these, many of us can talk through what should be done and, hopefully, we can put to use if it were to ever happen.

-Josh