HAZAA! i figured it out. i kept replaying it, and i was noticing that the whistle appeared to blow about 3/4 of a second before the foul, and then again after. i'm sure that what happened was, when artest drove to the lane, nocioni lightly fouled him (this is what they called the foul on), then .75 seconds later, he wrapped him up, so they basically said that we already blew the whistle, and you continued to foul him.
it makes sense, because after the first whistle, they blew the whistle twice, as if to say 'hey, hey! plays over!' so my confusion is partly on the officials for T'ing up nocioni for fouling a fraction of a second past the whistle, and on the announcers for implying it was for the foul, not after.
although i still think they (funk and king) possibly thought it was how i thought it was, and just didn't know the rules. wouldn't be the first time. just a few weeks ago, hubie brown stated 2-3x that a flagrant foul is one shot and the ball, and then after he realized it was 2, he owned up to the mistake and said announcers should know the rules.
Last edited by PackersFTW; Wed Feb 04, 2009 at 01:57pm.
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