"An actionless contest"...?

[Raymond]

Originally Posted by LSams

I remember a story an old partner told me about a similar situation.

Team went into a stall about 5 minutes left in a quarter. The point guard stood with the ball, in the frontcourt for about 4 minutes. Defense stays in the zone, they all just sit there for the 4 minutes.

Clock gets down to about the 1 minute mark, so they are getting ready to put their play into motion. Point guard, still holding the ball, does the thing where you wipe the dust off the bottom of your shoe to get better traction -- picks one foot up, wipes it off. Picks other foot up, wipes it off -- My former partner -- tweet -- traveling -- ball handler just changed his pivot foot.

It would be funny if A1 used his dribble then held the ball for 4 minutes then forgot that he couldn't dribble anymore.

[JugglingReferee]

If I ever get one of these situations, I'm going to stop the clock, privately ask the Team A HC how much time he will allow his team to stand there with the ball before making a move. Then I will privately ask the Team B HC how much time will he allow this before his team plays defense. Then I will instruct the timer to put on the score clock the value that is furthest from zeros.

Example: 8:00 on the clock, and there's a stall. Team A HC wants 0:15 before offensive movements begin. B HC will play defense at 0:30. I'll put :30 up and away we go. There, I just saved around 7:30.

[Nevadaref]

Originally Posted by JugglingReferee

If I ever get one of these situations, I'm going to stop the clock, privately ask the Team A HC how much time he will allow his team to stand there with the ball before making a move. Then I will privately ask the Team B HC how much time will he allow this before his team plays defense. Then I will instruct the timer to put on the score clock the value that is furthest from zeros.

Example: 8:00 on the clock, and there's a stall. Team A HC wants 0:15 before offensive movements begin. B HC will play defense at 0:30. I'll put :30 up and away we go. There, I just saved around 7:30.

Shortening the quarter is definitely the way to go. It's brilliant!

I had a two stalls in one game last over six minutes each, and sadly didn't even think of asking the coaches if they simply desired to shorten the quarter.