Another one for the new members to chew on - you senor members will cut to the chase too quickly for my purposes, so please hold your comments until some more recent members have the chance to respond. and if you do respond, take a chance without reading anybody else's answers first!

1. Ball is dead and you note that the clock is running. What do you do?

2. Ball is live and bouncing across the court toward A1, with A1 the only player likely to obtain control of ball and clock is stopped{my edit added here upon review of comments!). What do you do?


[Edited by Hawks Coach on Feb 5th, 2003 at 05:16 PM]

1. Stop the clock
2. Get out of the way of the ball.

1. What level of ball? 7-8th grade GREAT let it run!! Just kidding. Anyway, I blow the whistle, tell'em to stop the clock. Meet with partner, go to the bench, ask the clock op, agree on a time to be put back on, meet with both coaches, hope they agree and go back at it.

2. Don't understand, is there a problem here?

Are these trick questions for us newbs to this forum?

Sorry - I really screwed that one up!! Update 2. to read:

2. Ball is live and bouncing across the court toward A1, with A1 the only player likely to obtain control of ball, and clock is stopped. What do you do?

Revised #2 - I try to get the clock ops attention and just have'em start the clock. But if it takes too long THEN I blow my whistle and do the same as above (answer 1) If it is in the backcourt I have a good idea how much time SHOULD be off the clock because I have been counting.

I have a feeling this has nothing to do with the clock being stopped. But we will find out, won't we!

#1 - Since the ball is dead and the clock is running, blow the whistle again and have them stop the clock. If I know what the correct time should be, I would make that correction, otherwise, leave it where it is stopped.

#2 - Wait until A1 controls the ball, then blow the whistle and have them start the clock.

Not so fast my friend
 

JR
I know, that you know, that I know. . .

But this is just too much fun to stop so soon.

You still have not identified the Problem.

Easy Bart - your name still says SR member below it. And perhaps identification of the problem is the problem, yes?

Hawks Coach,
With all of this time on your hands, shouldn't you be designing a can't miss inbounds play? Just a thought.

No such thing Joe! You ever seen us play? We can miss wide open lay-ups.

oops, sorry

I'm gonna take a stab here....but this is how I see it.

1. Do nothing. You've just described the clock status when the ball goes through the hoop (until we get inside 1:00 in the second half by NCAA rules). Ball is live when player gets it out of bounds to throw it back into play.

2. Chop time in when A1 touches it. This sounds like a throw-in situation where Team A wants to wait until last possible moment before starting clock.

If this isn't it, I haven't the foggiest. Can't wait to see the answer, though!

Incidentally, I agree with previous poster. Hawks Coach clearly has too much time on his hands. Should be designing plays (or layup drills, by the sounds of it!)

Now I really hope that nobody is peeking - although you are technically wrong on live ball status in 1. By rule, it is live when it is at disposal, which is not necessarily when the ball is OOB in hands of the former defensive team. You are holding it, it is at your disposal. Also, if you stand there staring at it and won't pick it up as a delaying tactic, it is also at your disposal, IMO - but that was another thread in another place and time.

Now you need to post 25 more times so you don't answer my next puzzler.