[WoolyGoat]

someone explain to me why this basket was counted:


end of the first half last night, Celtics at Blazers. Blazers inbound the ball at half court with around 10 second left. Blazers score a bucket after finding a wide open guy under the basket. Why was he wide open? They had 6 guys on the floor. The (big-mouthed) Celtics obviously went berserk, and after some discussion among the referees, the Blazers were given a technical foul for playing with 6 guys on the floor. However, the basket they scored still counted. The Celtics ultimately lost the game when Eddie House missed the tying three pointer with about 15 seconds left in the game. Obviously if that bucket at the end of the half had been wiped away, the last few possessions might have gone down differently.

So back to the original question: the refs, by assessing a technical foul obviously recognized that the Blazers had 6 on the court, so why was their too-many-men-on-the-court basket allowed to count?

[Anhil8tor]

wgaf?

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was there video taping involved?
only kidding, not sure why that would hold up.

[WoolyGoat]

The Celtics were upset about a play that cost them 2 points in the first half after an odd call.

Portland's last bucket of the half came on a true power-play dunk by Travis Outlaw - the Blazers had six players on the floor. A technical was called, with Allen making the free throw, but Outlaw's basket was allowed to count.

"That was awful," Rivers said. "It absolutely had an affect on our guys. They complained the rest of the game about it. I told them, 'You got to get over that.' That was a doozy. There is no excuse for that to happen.

"They said you couldn't correct the play, which I still disagree with. But the problem was that we called around, we called the league, and they didn't have the answer, either. It is what it is. There is nothing we can do about."

Said referee Mike Callahan, "If we would have caught the six men on the court before the made field goal, then there would have been no score. We would have called a technical foul on Portland and stopped play.

"After the technical foul shot, Portland would have inbounded the ball as they were in possession before the stoppage."

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the refs sucked vs the lakers on christmas day also.

[WoolyGoat]

yeah they did.

so did my in-laws' television

[BIRD33]

Can't your in-laws make a better television?

I saw that play last night watching that espn NBA show that updates all the game throughout the night.It was funny to see Oden slink off right after the play and kind of hide on the bench while the refs were trying to figure it out..

If you start reviewing all calls that slows the game down.The NBA is assuming the refs arent going to make that bad of a mistake.

Don't expect those ref's be doing the finals.