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Originally Posted by Scrapper1
While I agree that some video could be allowed, the devil is in the details, as they say. What kind of video equipment is allowed to be used? A camera from the crowd? Or only a courtside monitor from a TV feed?
When can it be used? Last second shot only? Or also to identify a free throw shooter? To identify participants in a fight? To check if the clock started or stopped properly?
They would have to be very specific and very careful about how it's implemented, I think. But like I said, I agree that we should have access to it if it's available.
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This can be solved in the fiba way, wich is
the Referee must approve all video equipment wich can be used before the start of the game, if it isn't aproved before the start you're not allowed to use it.
It may only be used to determine if a last second shot (buzzer beater) was released in time, the video shall not be used for any other infraction.
I think this is a good rule, but I also think that one thing should be added, wich is that officials should be able to use video to replay a fight-sequence.
Since it is nearly impossible to remember everything that happens in such a sequence if it's a big one the officials should be allowed to do this, otherwise you may end up with one official trying to break up the fight and the other standing with a notebook writing down nr's (this has happened! During the european championships in sweden a few years ago).