"Countdown" allowed or not?

[chseagle]

Originally Posted by jdw3018

But you are talking about the shot clock operator counting it down for the timer, not so everyone on the court can hear.

Two totally different animals.

Although the shot clock operator may be seated next to the team's bench who might get the violation & the coach can hear the countdown, or the coach can hear the countdown with their team on defense to hold the other team from shooting to make sure they get the shot clock violation.

So in some ways the coach might have an advantage.

Periodically, I've heard the coach start doing the countdown to their team with the shot clock less than 10-sec.

BTW in both gyms, there's a scoreboard on each endline to the left of the backboard (when looking at that backboard). The shot clock displays are located to the right of each backboard.