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Originally Posted by Larks
If TV is there I totally agree. Set some guidelines and turn the states loose.
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Agreed. All the NFHS has to do is allow it. Then different schools / states are going to implement it and we can see if it solves problems or causes additional problems.
EVERY school videotapes there games. So, the additional equipment would be the monitor at the table. However, without clocks on the backboard and/or red or LEDs, the videotape isn't going to help on a last-second shot situation.
Regarding this play -- I agree with Back In The Saddle -- in real time it looked like she didn't get it off -- even from the crappy at-the-other-end-of-the-court camera angle. I really don't think that this call was very tough and I'm not sure how they missed it.
It looks like trail is opposite table here, which makes him lead at the other end... So, possibly the issue of the quick turnover and a transition play caused a problem -- the shot was taken with the new trail likely in the backcourt or just getting across half-court. Thus, the C would have to help out on the last-second shot. If the C got surprised by the shot and the T was too far to judge, that could have been what caused the missed call.
In slo-mo it is not even close. Its plays like this that make instant replay invaluable. If they could have gone to the monitor they WOULD have gotten this one right. Period. And they would have walked away with no controversy, instead of this article and one team being "robbed".
To the poster that said does this call matter more than a missed foul in the first quarter. Yes. Yes, it does. In a hypothetical world it might not, but the reality of our avocation is that calls in the last minute or two of the game are what matter the most. No one is going to remember a crappy travel call or a bad foul call in the first half of the game versus a call in the last seconds of the game which "determines" the winner. That is just the way it is and the sooner we learn to accept that, the better off we will be.