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Message: [QUOTE="Redux, post: 4263237, member: 11089"] There were approximately 3.2 seconds left in the period when the shot clock buzzer went off (and the ball was on the rim). Approximately 3.5 seconds later, after AE got the rebound, the ball went out of bounds as AE bounced it to the official. Probably she thought the shot buzzer was end of period but it shouldn't have mattered as the period was over by the time the ball was out. Unfortunately the clock had stopped at 1.3 seconds, with the ball still inbounds and still in play. And BTW, AE did not walk with the ball, an excuse for the officials stopping the clock that has been mentioned elsewhere. You are correct that the officials had nothing to do with what happened during the inbounds during that subsequent 1.3 second period extension that shouldn't have been happening. AE made a mistake in coverage (not "decided not to cover her player"). She did move quickly to contest the shot, forced a dribble/move and the player still got off a contested shot, [I]maybe:[/I] the video frames are 1/30th of a second apart and the exact release point occurred between frames; there's no way of really knowing. I am told by an expert (same one who did the time analysis above) that he looked at the video "fields" (1/60th of a second) and it looks like the shot did get off, depending on the length of the shooters fingernails. [/QUOTE]