Had this situation Tuesday night in a close girls varsity contest. I was working with a veteran official of 10 years, there was 7.8 seconds left in the contest, home team with the ball trailing by two points taking the ball out at the mid court stripe. We conferenced during a timeout about the possibility of a timer error. He recommended that after bringing the ball in that I begin a visible signal count in case the clock did not start. Sure enough ball was inbounded,clock did not start and the trailing team shot the ball which was a air ball which went out of bounds. Crowd and coaches were going ballistic. I informed the referee that I had a visible count of 5 seconds. Conferenced with coaches and informed them that we were going to set the clock at 3 seconds (could not set it a 2.8). Both coaches accepted the decision no questions asked. I will definitely use this procedure again to cover my behind.
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Mon Feb 21, 2000, 12:50am
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