Clock - Broken Tenths

[Freddy]

Originally Posted by just another ref

Did you read the case? They are shooting a free throw with zeros on the clock and the lane spaces filled.

Which is similar to what we had at the end of the game when we called back all the players to the floor in order to allow a throw-in, a signal to start the clock, then allowed the horn to end the game just after the subsequent play.
Because it was a wide margin for one team, we didn't bother to check at the table to see what fraction of a second remained before the horn.
Under these conditions, would we have felt compelled to check the LED console for what fraction of a second remained if, for instance, it showed .8 seconds remaining in an 80-80 game and one team had a throw-in on their endline? And furthermore, would we have been able to verify if the clock had actually been started at the proper time?
Again, it's not that the "clock" did not display tenths of a second. It's just that the scoreboard function of the "clock" was dysfunctional.
Hope I didn't open a can of worms here......