Bad Time for the Clock to Stop

[Coach Bill]

Originally Posted by BadNewsRef

They stopped it at 1.6 seconds.

I know. 1.6 is weird, right? I think maybe they stopped it after the basket by mistake at 5.3, that is why the official is so adamant he saw exactly 5.3, and then the timer said oops, i wasn't supposed to stop it, and started it again, and then stopped it on his 5-second count whistle. I would like to hear more of the conversation with the table.

[deecee]

Originally Posted by Coach Bill

I know. 1.6 is weird, right? I think maybe they stopped it after the basket by mistake at 5.3, that is why the official is so adamant he saw exactly 5.3, and then the timer said oops, i wasn't supposed to stop it, and started it again, and then stopped it on his 5-second count whistle. I would like to hear more of the conversation with the table.

Why are you making this so complicated??? Official glances at the clock when he starts his count, clock reads 5.3.

Official begins his count and at count 5 realizes the clock was stopped at 1.6. 1.6 is irrelevant.

Official has definitive knowledge that 5 seconds has run. Officials last knowledge of the time was 5.3 (which anyone who can read a clock can see the tenths, once again its not rocket science).

Official takes the 5.3 seconds and subtracts the 5 seconds he knows ran off the clock and that is left with .3 seconds.

So this process isn't that hard, it's simple subtraction. What the timer doesn't matter compared to what the official knows.

Doing some travel ball yesterday I had a strange sequence. 2.5ish on the clock, team up 2 points has backcourt endline spot throw-in after a foul. Kid can't find anyone to throw it to so he throws it in and a kid from the opposing team grabs it and launches a three. Swish. After I see it go in I immediatly look over at the bench expecting a timeout but the coach is in shock and is just standing there looking. I look back at the clock and it has stopped at 0.8. Thanks a lot clock operator. I count to one and blow it dead. Game over.