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Originally Posted by Jurassic Referee
No. The R timed the interval between the tap on the missed FT and when the made shot went through and came up with 6.0 seconds. That lets him know whether the shot actually was made in time and also how much time remained after the last basket went through. That's logical.
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That might have been what you would have done, and it would make perfect sense to do it that way, but please tell me how you know that is what the R on that game did?
The fact is you don't. You weren't there and you haven't spoken with him. So you can know. Perhaps what I posited is in fact what happened. You can't prove that it didn't.
However, it can be conclusively proven from the video that from the time the ball was first touched after the missed FT to when the ball passed through the basket took more than 6.0 seconds. Even ESPN has already demonstrated this. Their clock times 6.5 seconds from the first touch just to the release of the shot. Now how much more time do you think that it took the ball to fly through the air, hit the backboard, and then pass through the net? The answer isn't -0.5 seconds. So you've got this one wrong.
Lah you.
