Teams show up with same shirts

[ref18]

I'm sure by now everyone's aware of why the Bronze medal game is delayed, so I have one question.

If you were the officials in any high level game would you allow the game to be delayed without any penalty because a team showed up with the wrong colour shirts??

[JRutledge]

I have had this happen before. I was working a tournament neither team was the host team and showed up in gold jerseys. Thank God one had blue numbering and the other team had white. So at the very least we could make a distinction between the teams by number. It was hard to work like that, but it was really not that hard. Neither team had another uniform to change in to. We just had to go with it. This game was also before all the specific uniform changes were in place and there was not much to do at that time.

Peace

[gostars]

According to FIBA both teams were mistakenly told to where home whites. Both teams sent people to retrieve their coloreds. The US alternates arrived first so they were the ones to change.

[ref18]

Originally posted by gostars
According to FIBA both teams were mistakenly told to where home whites. Both teams sent people to retrieve their coloreds. The US alternates arrived first so they were the ones to change.

It all makes sense now, I didn't know that FIBA told both teams to bring white shirts.

Now I can understand why no penalty was enforced for this.

Thanks

[BktBallRef]

Originally posted by ref18

It all makes sense now, I didn't know that FIBA told both teams to bring white shirts.

Now I can understand why no penalty was enforced for this.

Thanks

The game sheets and the policy manual state that the team listed first is the home team. Lithuania was listed first and therefore, was the home team. However, an official was told before the semifinal game that the USA would wear white uni's in their next game, win or lose.

The USA visitor uniforms were packed for shipment back to the states. They were forced to return to the Queen Mary hote to get them.

[rotationslim]

Couldn't they hit the souveneir stands and pick up some uni's out in the concourse--- granted they'd be a little overpriced, and you'd have to write their name on their back with Sharpie... but it could work.

[DownTownTonyBrown]

and just use the sharpie directly on their backs/chests


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