Announcer count down

[bob jenkins]

Originally Posted by Jurassic Referee

There is no rule afaik but if the announcer had not done the exact same thing at the end of the first or second quarters (especially if the visitors had the ball on one of those occassions), I'd say the visiting coach had a valid point. Not much you could do though imo except maybe tell the announcer that he now had to count down the last few seconds of the fourth quarter no matter who had the ball.

Yep.

I've done this a few times when shot clocks have gone out.