not just the control buttons but understanding when it is 24 or 14

you should be grateful enough that the people are doing the bench in the first place. Without a bench the game can't go on. If you make them do a course just to sit on the bench I'm sure you will see the number of volunteers drop dramatically...…

Im sorry that the poor parent sitting on the shot clock stuffed up while you were watching…….. hey, I've got an idea!

HOW ABOUT NEXT TIME YOU DO IT YOURSELF INSTEAD OF HAVING A LITTLE BITCH ABOUT IT ONLINE.

Rant over.

I don't think this thread is directed at struggling parents.

It has more to do with poor implementation of a rather complex rule and poor equipment.

Definitely not the fault of parent's when things start to go pear shaped

Buckets, more like 'bucket mouth'

Having coached and scored many times I understand parents who are apprehensive doing this, but my advice is just get in there and have a go. Eventually you will work it out and it will become quite a simple task for you.

Sit next to somone who knows how to use the device during a game first if you need to, but don't stress over it, remember although parents sometimes lose it for a second during the heat of a game, we'd all appreciate those who help out.

Here is a tid-bit of information I have found out whilst working the 24 sec clock for an under 23's game.

The clock doesn't need to be stopped to reset to 14, you can hold down the start button and press the reset button and the clock goes to 14, its much quicker and easier then the "stop, reset-reset, start" to reset to 14.

We have the same problem in Sydney.
Many people (esp parents) are not yet trained/aware on the "new rules" including the 14 -second shot clock and the timeouts in the last 2 minutes, not to to mention one free throw on tech fouls. With the Rep season about to start on this coming Sunday this is going to " Blow up" at many venues.

Doesn't help that four of the main venues in Sydney have different brands of scoreboard with different ways of re-setting the shot-clock to 14 seconds. BNSW has introduced a rule that the "home" team, has to do clock and the away team does score sheet which helps with the different brands of scoreboard but doesn't help with the shot clock. Plus in my experience many parents hate/refuse too do shot clock as it is "too hard" (has too much potential influence on the outcome of the game/too likely to get yelled at)

its because the 14 second rule is stupid
why couldnt the clock get reset to 24 seconds...
if there is 20 seconds left in a game and you are down a point and work hard to get the offensive rebound you should be able to use that time up as you did the right thing... but if you only get 14 seconds and score instead of the team doing a victory lap they get rewarded with a timeout, the ball being advanced and 6 seconds of dont let my player get the ball defence
24 second reset is better than the 14

yeah sure, and the possession arrow is unfair....

Why? Its less fair. Surely you want fair rules.

its to complicated for parents, either BSA bring in some people to do it
OR they just reset it to 24 seconds...

i would vote to get rid of the 14 second restart, why do we expect junior players to play at the same level as the professionals?
and you can argue that we use the same rules, but ive been told by umpires that the rules we use in Australia at the interpretation of FIBA rules
we will still be playing basketball