less than 3/10ths of a second left

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Originally Posted by just another ref

Whatever you do, say nothing about this. It is not part of your job.

That's what I thought so. Assistant coach of home team told my partner "hey, you know there's less than 3/10ths of a second, it has to be tapped in. You should tell the coach that". Then my partner came to me and was like "should we tell him" and I said "hell no, he should know that. Coaches thinks they know the rules better than officials, so he should know this already". Low and behold, coach probably didn't know this and the player actually caught the ball before shooting. Like I said, I blew the play dead right after buzzer went off and left. If the ball would have went in I would have had a lot of 'splaining to do!