Blown 10 second count

[Camron Rust]

Originally Posted by Kelvin green

It was after a timeout so clock was stopped. I was standing near the endline so I had the same view...

In most normal situations this accuracy may be good, but at the end of a quarter and 11. 5 seconds run off, how can we say that is accurate? and say no big deal we would not blow the whistle.

If the idea is to get it right this is a situation we have to get right.

Everyone knows we just screwed good defense ... If the official had called the 10 seconds atllets say 17 and it ran to 16.3 and we knew that, would we let that go as well?

You're assuming that control and touch occur at the same time. It is entirely possible and actually fairly normal that control occurs slightly after the ball is touched. The clock starts on contact, the count starts on control...thus a small amount of time usually passes before the 10 count should start.

10.9 seconds seems to be well within reason.