What would you do?

[BillyMac]

Originally Posted by Terrapins Fan

Coach goes ballistic says I should never make a call like that with 11 seconds to go in the game. Fans join in and say you can't make that call with 11 seconds to go.

Citation please.

[Smitty]

Originally Posted by BillyMac

Citation please.

Citation for what????

[UNIgiantslayers]

Originally Posted by Smitty

Citation for what????

[Eastshire]

Originally Posted by Smitty

Citation for what????

Where the rules book says that it's not illegal to shove players with 11 seconds left in a close game.

I never have grasped the school of thought that there shouldn't be any rules at the end of a close game.

[crosscountry55]

Originally Posted by Eastshire

Where the rules book says that it's not illegal to shove players with 11 seconds left in a close game.



I never have grasped the school of thought that there shouldn't be any rules at the end of a close game.

+1. Last two minutes of a close game you might shift to a mindset of "high certainty" or some other mental framework like that. But two-hand shove with 3-4 feet of separation? Sounds like high certainty to me! Great call. Hope you sold it like a Persian rug peddler.

Earlier in the year I was T and V1, down by two with 3 seconds left gets off a 3-pt from the corner. As an airborne shooter he gets bowled over by an over-eager H1. I guess I wasn't supposed to make that call based on Coach Logic?


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[JeffM]

I don't disagree with previous comments....

but, I have heard on many occasions not to make a call at the end of a game that you haven't made up until that point.

It sounds like the situation described in the OP was egregious enough that it deserved to be called.

I think the officials did let the players decide by not whacking the coach which also would have been justified.

[MechanicGuy]

Sounds like the announcers during the Clippers game tonight after CP3 got T'd with 20 seconds left lol

[Eastshire]

Originally Posted by JeffM

but, I have heard on many occasions not to make a call at the end of a game that you haven't made up until that point.

If a play wasn't a foul in the 1Q, you shouldn't call it as a foul at the end of the game.

OTOH, just because it didn't happen in first 3 quarters, doesn't mean you don't call it when it happens in the 4Q.

The point is the rules are the same no matter where we are in the game. Our interpretation of those rules shouldn't change either.

[Terrapins Fan]

Originally Posted by Eastshire

If a play wasn't a foul in the 1Q, you shouldn't call it as a foul at the end of the game.

OTOH, just because it didn't happen in first 3 quarters, doesn't mean you don't call it when it happens in the 4Q.

The point is the rules are the same no matter where we are in the game. Our interpretation of those rules shouldn't change either.

As is typical with most games, we had a wide variety of house throughout the game. Several hand checks, 3 seconds in the lane, and we had a push at the other end of the floor against the other team in very similar fashion, call by one of my partners. That was in the first half. This was definitely a very physical contest. We were in the bonus in the third quarter.

[Adam]

Originally Posted by JeffM

I don't disagree with previous comments....

but, I have heard on many occasions not to make a call at the end of a game that you haven't made up until that point.

It sounds like the situation described in the OP was egregious enough that it deserved to be called.

I think the officials did let the players decide by not whacking the coach which also would have been justified.

If it was justified, they could have rung him up and still "let he players decide the game."