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Originally posted by ronny mulkey
Wish we had the officials story.
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Well, here ya go:
Quotes from Brian Enterline, Crew Chief, on the instant replay decision:
(from Ed McGrahan, The Greenville (S.C.) News)
Ed: Can you walk me through those last few seconds of the game?
Enterline: We had a shot that was either a two or a three to either tie or win the game. So what we did, we went back and looked at replays and the first angle we had wasn't a clear angle so I requested another angle and that angle clearly showed her right foot on the line. So, we determined it was two point and put 5 seconds back on the clock because that's when it went through last.
Ed: Was it the crew's initiative to look at the video at that point?
Enterline: Part of our ruling when it's tying a game we can go to the monitor to make sure there isn't a timing or scoring error.
Ed: Was there a discussion before you decided to go to the tape?
Enterline: What we end up discussing is what all the officials had and then we request to have a certain pinpoint brought up on the replay. That pinpoint was brought because it was clearly in the time frame (for a correctable error) and we wanted to take a look at it and see. Not only a correctable error but we were at live play so we were at five seconds so we want to make sure because that's a huge thing. If her foot is on the line it is a two pointer and that's something we have to be 110% sure of - there's two lines out there, the top of the arc and then the three point line and her foot was clearly on the three point line and so she made a two point shot.
Ed: When you say clearly, this much - that much...
Enterline: The front part of the foot was clearly on the line and we have to be 110% sure or we'll go with the three.
Ed: (to Bill Stokes, Coordinator of Women's Basketball Officials) ...and I take it you've looked at the tape several times and you support the decision?
Stokes: Two of the angles were not clear but the last angle we looked at, her right foot was touching the line.
Enterline: It's a tough play but we made a decision totally unbiased. We make sure that the decision is as professional and unbiased as possible.
Ed: Given the flow of the game and all...
Enterline: We can't determine that, we can look at it at that point. As officials we don't bring in the swings of the game, crowd favorites. Our job is to call the game, the best way we can and with the use of replay - if we didn't have replay then we would be going into overtime but because we have replay opportuniies if we make it a three then it's not fair to the other team. We have to be as fair and unbiased as possible.