To further illustrate using facts:
The 35 second clock does not have increments of tenths. This obvious, but should be stated.
The shot clock starts at what would be 35.0 seconds, not 35.9 seconds or any time increment in between.
When the clock goes from 35 to 34 some measurement of time less than a second has elapsed. In other words it does not wait to decrement by that second before it reads 34.
If the shot clock was broken down by tenths or hundredths then your reasoning would sound as long as it read 25.0. Since it doesn't the clock needs to get to 24.
Ronco, stop what you are doing and thinking and read this very carefully.
We can all agree that when the shot clock hits 0 a buzzer sounds and a shot clock violation has occured correct? Since there are NO tenths of a second we can therefore agree that if anything between 1.0 seconds, and .01 seconds were left on the shot clock it would show 1.
Now that we understand that we can say that the clock starts at 35 and counts down. The clock STAYS at 35 until one FULL second has elapsed, at which point it hits 34. Building on that we have....
34= at least 1 full second has elapsed
33= at least 2 full seconds have elapsed
32= at least 3 full seconds have elapsed
31= at least 4 full seconds have elapsed
30= at least 5 full seconds have elapsed
29= at least 6 full seconds have elapsed
28= at least 7 full seconds have elapsed
27= at least 8 full seconds have elapsed
26= at least 9 full seconds have elapsed
25= at least 10 full seconds have elapsed= violation
To take it further to a shot clock violation....
24=11
23=12
22=13
21=14
20=15
19=16
18=17
17=18
16=19
15=20
14=21
13=22
12=23
11=24
10=25
9=26
8=27
7=28
6=29
5=30
4=31
3=32
2=33
1=34
0=35 seconds have elapsed and a shot clock violation has occured.