Clock Question

[JMUplayer]

We actaully had the tenths fixed for the Varsity game. The clock was used for wrestling or something the day before and they didn't change it back.

In my 30 years on this planet and probably over 1000 basketball games watches i've never seen anyone shoot FTs with 0:00 on the clock and the teams lined up in the lane.

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[QUOTE=JMUplayer;719297]We actaully had the tenths fixed for the Varsity game. The clock was used for wrestling or something the day before and they didn't change it back.

In my 30 years on this planet and probably over 1000 basketball games watches i've never seen anyone shoot FTs with 0:00 on the clock and the teams lined up in the lane after the horn or lights went off.[QUOTE]

Fixed that for ya! Keep on living, I'm sure you'll experience it & you'll be well prepared at that

[Adam]

Originally Posted by JMUplayer

We actaully had the tenths fixed for the Varsity game. The clock was used for wrestling or something the day before and they didn't change it back.

In my 30 years on this planet and probably over 1000 basketball games watches i've never seen anyone shoot FTs with 0:00 on the clock and the teams lined up in the lane.

It happens; might even be a case play addressing it.

[chseagle]

It could be a case of where the scoreboard operator did not turn on the tenths of a second function as well.

Majority of the newer scoreboards have the tenth of a second function available, however not always does it automatically initiate when the board comes on.

Not always will the scoreboard control display show the tenth of a second either.

[BillyMac]

Originally Posted by JMUplayer

In my 30 years on this planet and probably over 1000 basketball games watched I've never seen anyone shoot FTs with 0:00 on the clock and the teams lined up in the lane.

In my thirty years of officiating basketball on this planet, working thousands of games, I've had 0:00 with no horn in about a half dozen games. In all but two of these situations, I've asked the timer to make sure that the automatic horn is on, it isn't, and when he turns it on the horn sounds. On the two occasions when the automatic horn was on, we had ten kids on the court for the last "second".

[stiffler3492]

Originally Posted by JMUplayer

We actaully had the tenths fixed for the Varsity game. The clock was used for wrestling or something the day before and they didn't change it back.

In my 30 years on this planet and probably over 1000 basketball games watches i've never seen anyone shoot FTs with 0:00 on the clock and the teams lined up in the lane.

I had that this past weekend...sort of.

I was in an older gym where we actually had a scoreboard on each wall behind the baskets (a luxury for the level I was working). One scoreboard even had team fouls!!!

Seriously, though, one scoreboard showed the tenths of a second, the other didn't. I had a shooting foul just before halftime. No horn. Coach looks up at the board and says to my partner...there's no way that can be there's 0:00 left on the clock! My partner said...Coach, look at the other board.

[bob jenkins]

Originally Posted by JMUplayer

In my 30 years on this planet and probably over 1000 basketball games watches i've never seen anyone shoot FTs with 0:00 on the clock and the teams lined up in the lane.

Really? So in your games with 1/10s showing, you've never had a FT with 0:00.x showing? It's (usually) the same thing.

[JMUplayer]

I've seen plenty of 0:00 on the clock and shooting FT but the lane is clear.

If you have (no tenths) 0:02 and some people say there is between 2 and 3 seconds wouldn't logic then dicate at the beginning of the game when there is 8:00 on the clock it's between 8:00 and 8:01?

[bob jenkins]

Originally Posted by JMUplayer

I've seen plenty of 0:00 on the clock and shooting FT but the lane is clear.

If you have (no tenths) 0:02 and some people say there is between 2 and 3 seconds wouldn't logic then dicate at the beginning of the game when there is 8:00 on the clock it's between 8:00 and 8:01?

No.

When 0:02 is showing, there's between 2.00 and 2.99 seconds left (inclusive).

So, when 8:00 is showing, there's (theoretically) between 8:00.00 and 8:00.99 left (inclusive). In practice, only one of those values is valid.

[Adam]

Originally Posted by JMUplayer

I've seen plenty of 0:00 on the clock and shooting FT but the lane is clear.

If you have (no tenths) 0:02 and some people say there is between 2 and 3 seconds wouldn't logic then dicate at the beginning of the game when there is 8:00 on the clock it's between 8:00 and 8:01?

Yep, and 8:00.0 is between 8:00.0 and 8:00.9. It just happens to be on the outer (bottom) edge of the logical set.

[letemplay]

Anybody ever work with a scoreboard old enough to have the clock style face with hands like in Hoosiers? Good luck figuring out time left on those!

[BillyMac]

Originally Posted by letemplay

Anybody ever work with a scoreboard old enough to have the clock style face with hands like in Hoosiers?

No, but one of our schools used to have a nonworking one up on the wall. Eventually they took it down. I bet those guys on "Pickers" would have had a field day with an item like that. When Mark T. DeNucci, Sr. started out, all the gyms had scoreboards like that.

[Mrcrash3]

I had a game this year where the clock stopped on 00 twice (older small gym old clock). In both situations we were shooting free throws(end of 2nd quarter/end of third quarter).
The first time I went to table to check the clock it read 00.7 second time 00.2.
My partner and I then had the information on what type of last second shot would be allowed. Told both coaches how much time was left.
We had pregamed this because of the old style clock.