time keeeping

[Nevadaref]

Originally Posted by Camron Rust

#1...goal counts. The officials can use any on-court counts they may have to adjust the time...no guessing. If an official got to 7 in the backcourt and got to 4 on a 5 second count in the frontcourt and had some other amount of undetermined time, 11 seconds can be taken off the clock.

#2...if the official knew the clock started early and counted in their head, they could count the basket if it was released before they got to 0:00. That said, when they see it start early, they should kill it right then and fix it (presumably, it is during a throwin so play would typically resume from that same throwin).

#3...same as #2, the official can, with any information they have, make adjustments to the clock. That horn was effectively an inadvertent horn.

A little nit-picky by me, but those phrases don't mesh. The official shouldn't try to go with a non-visible count or use "any" info, but do as you wrote in #1 and use only definite knowledge.

Now I'm also going to disagree with your conclusions for #2 and #3. This is the period-ending horn which will cause the players to stop and make the ball dead unless released on a try for goal prior to it sounding. This is not the same as the timer hitting the horn for subs or to get the officials attention. Therefore, the goal cannot count. The timing mistake may be corrected and the game continued from the POI. For #3 the foul would be ignored unless intentional or flagrant and play would again revert to the POI following the timing correction.