"C" Calls 10 Second Violation

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Originally Posted by 26 Year Gap

Never have been in an area that uses it. Is the reset to 35 when the ball is at the disposal of the offensive team after a made basket? Is it supposed to start once the inbounding team has completed a legal throw-in? I have caught myself counting a couple times as C, after having done 2 man games, but I have never come close to 10.

We use a 35/30 second shot clock for boys/girls in Washington State. The shot clock is to be reset after the completed throw-in after a made basket. I instruct the table crew to reset after the made basket (to prevent the horn for violation in the case of a shot with less than 5 or so seconds left on the shot clock) and then to reset again at the completion of the throw-in. I had a boys game two weeks ago where they were resetting on the made basket only and so the shot clock showed 24 second and my count was well below 10. We didn't catch it until a coach whined for a 10 second count when I had 6. At the next dead ball I let the coaches now what was happeing and reminded the table crew to do a proper reset. No problems after that.