View Single Post
  #8 (permalink)  
Old Mon Feb 26, 2007, 02:56pm
Raymond Raymond is offline
Courageous When Prudent
 
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Hampton Roads, VA
Posts: 14,881
Quote:
Originally Posted by Snaqwells
If the official reported one number and the scorer wrote down a different number, then you're right. It can be corrected at any time. If the official reports it on the "wrong" player, then it's an official's error, and would need to fall under the "correctable error" category to be fixable after the ball becomes live.
Correctable errors apply to free throws and points. Calling fouls on the wrong player is not a situation bound by those constraints. It's a separate rule as cited by Jurassic.
__________________
A-hole formerly known as BNR
Reply With Quote