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Originally Posted by Texas Aggie
There was 1.4 seconds on the clock. Can you give me an example of any teams that have gone full court and scored in 1.3 or less?
The first call was correct. Player was forced into either a travel or OOB by contact. No choice but to call a foul. Second one should have been ignored. Even IF you can make a case for a foul in that situation, the score is tied with little chance of a score absent a call. Leave it alone, play 5 minutes more and then any call or no-call becomes moot.
Had one team been ahead, you can argue the foul. If there's a chance for OT, absent the prevention of a valid scoring attempt, go to OT. There's no advantage gained by grabbing an arm 90 feet from the basket with about a second left. No one here has yet made the case for such an advantage. Ordinarily, without an unfair advantage in a contact situation, we're going to leave it alone.
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Reading your post leads me to believe you're a Pitt fan.
The no-call doesn't become moot if Butler ends up losing in OT because you didn't do your job properly in regulation.
You have to call the foul. A foul is a foul is a foul. It doesn't matter it the clock says .003 or 19:59.
The officials cannot (read : should not) call or ignore fouls based on who is ahead.
No Advantaged gained? Last time I checked, grabbing ones arm might drastically effect their ability to grab a rebound. You cannot wait to see the result of contact at a such a crucial juncture in the game to see how "severe" the disadvantage was. Grabbing an arm of a rebounding player is obvious.
If there is contact that puts the offended player at a disadvantage, we need a whistle.
I agree with others on this board- you gotta have guts to call these types of fouls at anytime in the game, especially late in a tie game.