Clock - Broken Tenths

[BryanV21]

Originally Posted by OKREF

Not if the horn hasn't gone off. Just because it doesn't show tenths, doesn't mean it is over.

Not all scoreboard consoles show how much time is left, or even show tenths of a second. For places like that, you don't know whether there are .3 seconds left or .4 seconds left, therefore you don't know whether the team on offense can catch and shoot or can only tap it.

Now, in this case the console does show tenths of a second. However, the rule book does not differentiate between the two types of consoles.

The rule that states that the audible timer's signal is to be used to determine when the time has expired is only for when the ball is live, and we know a catch and shoot can happen.