Can they prove that Ross would not have shot the ball earlier if the clock was correct? He got the ball, he turned the corner and saw the shot clock, squared up, and shot it. Of course he could have gotten it off earlier (not necessarily as a make) had the clock been correct. On every inbounds play, it's left to the reaction time of the guy starting the clock, except when it's less than a second, where it's accepted that with about .5 left you have time to gather and shoot, and with .3 you can tip/deflect, and less than that it's impossible.
So now the home arena crew can just start the clock a fraction of a second late in these sitations every time to negate any buzzer-beater. Lovely job, NBA.
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