Bad Time for the Clock to Stop

[Camron Rust]

Originally Posted by deecee

You just don't get it. None of us here can explain it to you because you suffer from "you know everything".

The rules allow for some "human" discrepancy from when the official blows the clock dead to when it ACTUALLY stopped. For most of us it a few tenths to maybe even a half a second.

Actually, the rules don't. Lag time, where it was acceptable for the clock to run slightly after the whistle, was taken out of the rules several years ago. Now, the clock is expected to be stopped on the whistle. If the official observes ANY time that elapses from the clock after the whistle that time is to be restored.

Originally Posted by deecee

In the second instance the timer said they stopped it when they heard the whistle and that accounts for a .3 second differential. We can live with that. IF the time says they stopped it before then we change it. You are not going to see a 1 second lag in this instance. In my experience it's about .1-.3.

That, too, is incorrect. The situation referenced in the second part of that case has nothing whatsoever to do with the clock being stopped shortly after the whistle. If that were the case, it would have to have run to too long to 1.2, not stopped early at 1.8. Instead, is talking about the situation where the clock stops exactly on the whistle for a 5 count but less than 5 came off the clock. It is referring to the official's count being official even if it is not precise. It is saying that the the clock is not corrected because, even though the official's count was too fast and is considered official, no error was made with the clock since it was started correctly and stopped correctly (on the whistle). The official's count was just too fast.

Originally Posted by deecee

Your pseudo gibberish science and logic does not work here. It will not work in any game I work, and it makes no sense. You can try and confuse things but it doesn't work.

If you're going to jump someone's case, you should at least be right.