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Old Thu Mar 29, 2007, 04:27pm
Camron Rust Camron Rust is offline
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Even if, by rule, they could review the time on a video replay and declare a made bakset invalid, I think it is an absolutlely horrible and unjust result.

The team with the ball may or may not have known that the clock paused and they would likely not know for how long. They likely planned to shoot with 1 second on the clock but didn't constantly watch the clock. For them to work for that shot only to have it waived off simply doesn't make sense.

Likewise, the defense had to defend for that extra time. Also not fair.

We can't say with any certainty that the shot would or would not be made in time if the clock hadn't paused.

The ball was shot with time showing on the clock. While the rules do allow them to go to the monitor to make a clock correction or to see if a shot is released before the time expires, I'm not sure that it allows the correction of the clock AND the retroactive declaration that a shot would have been after the buzzer if the clock hadn't paused.
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