Lights go out during close play

[BillyMac]

Originally Posted by Camron Rust

And this isn't like a situation that many have ever encountered, particularly with 5 seconds left in a game ...

I've had lights go out a few times in forty years, but never with five seconds left in the game (or a period).

I hate the gyms with metal halide lights that need to be warmed-up before reaching optimal lighting.

[crosscountry55]

Originally Posted by BillyMac

I've had lights go out a few items in forty years, but never with five seconds left in the game.

Yeah, that’s suspicious. It favored the home team. Imagine that.

Officiating controversy notwithstanding, if I’m the Sun Belt Conference, I’m initiating an investigation.


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

[BillyMac]

Originally Posted by BillyMac

I've had lights go out a few items in forty years, but never with five seconds left in the game.

Originally Posted by crosscountry55

Yeah, that’s suspicious. It favored the home team. Imagine that.

It amazes me that we have a large number of schools, especially middle schools, especially Catholic middle schools, here in my little corner of Connecticut, that don't have any type of guards or locks on their gymnasium light switches.

They have light switches like we all have in our living rooms.

Anybody can come along and just turn off the lights.

It's often just somebody leaning on the wrong wall, at the wrong time, in the wrong place.

[Camron Rust]

The reality is that this is a situation that is clearly not covered in the rules. This is precisely what rule 2-3 was created for. Even so, to say there is a single right answer to the situation and to criticize the officials for how they handled it is unfair. There is simply nothing in the rules that says how this should be handled and to expect them to know what the league office might want when they had merely seconds to make a decision when others had hours to consider it is.

I think you could justify just about any ruling within the actual rules. And, the lights didn't go completely out. You could still see the entire time, albeit only with red lights.

[BillyMac]

Originally Posted by Camron Rust

And, the lights didn't go completely out. You could still see the entire time, albeit only with red lights.

Cameras are notoriously bad with low lighting. How many times has one used a camera thinking that it was bright enough to take a photo with no flash, when a flash was actually needed?

The first time I worked a game at the Hartford Civic Center (now the XL Center), home of NHL Whalers, University of Connecticut basketball, and home away from home of the NBA Boston Celtics, I was in awe of how (too bright) the court was.

I'm guessing that in real life, it was actually a little brighter on the court than what we've seen on the video replay.

[Raymond]

Originally Posted by BillyMac

...

I'm guessing that in real life, it was actually a little brighter on the court than what we've seen on the video replay.

The way the players on the court kept on playing as if they could see fine, leads me to think the same.




Sent from my SM-N950U using Tapatalk

[Camron Rust]

Originally Posted by Raymond

The way the players on the court kept on playing as if they could see fine, leads me to think the same.

I'm sure it was a distraction, but it wasn't "dark". Who's to say the other team didn't have the offense forced to an area they were happy with and a restart would let them set up a new designed play. Stopping the game and restarting at 5 seconds has as many problems as not stopping it. Either way, this was a bad situation and someone was going to complain.