Shot Clock Reset

[MD Longhorn]

It WAS rebounded by the offense, although I can't fault the shot clock guy for thinking the defense had it... watching on TV, I thought the defense had it for a second, but they didn't.

Only think I hate about the resolution of the problem is that the offense was not hurrying to score because they saw the clock and thought they had 30-something seconds to shoot - to suddenly say, NO, you have 2 seconds (or worse, if they had caught it 2 seconds later - NO, you lose the ball) would suck - especially in the situation when this happened.

[NDRef]

Originally Posted by Man In Blue

NCAA-Men. Conference championship game under 1 minute.

A1 shoots from elbow and is blocked by B1. The ball comes down about half way between shooter and basket. B2 grabs the ball, kicks it out to the wing who takes the the ball out top to set up a new play because the shot clock has been reset!

Coach B going nuts. The trail blows the play dead and goes to the replay with the R. They review the video and determine 2 seconds on the shot clock. They put the ball on the endline to resume play.

A couple of things:

1. None of the crew saw the shot not hit the basket/ rim.

2. Shame on the table for resetting shot clock.

3. If no one saw the shot clock reset how can you blow the play dead to see what the coach is yelling about?

4. The tv replay showed the shot clock was reset somewhere between 9 and 11 seconds. But the officials reset the shot clock to 2 because that is where the game was when they blew the whistle.

5. The ball was almost at half court when the play was blown dead. Why put the ball in play under the basket? That was where the ball was when the shot clock was reset- but then the shot clock should be at 9-11 seconds?

Good table help is hard to find!!!

I watched the game....there was NEVER an issue of whether the shot hit the rim or not. The issue\mistake that the table made was resetting the shot clock because the shot clock operater mistakenly judged that the the defense had gained possession, then lost it (they actually never had possession) during a "scramble" for the ball. This table crew was plenty "good"--just made a mistake...and that mistake was mostly corrected. No different than the mistake by the officiating crew by putting the ball in play at the wrong sopt. By the way, the team, WIU, ended up scoring immediately on the inbounds play.