shot hits support wire

[Dan_ref]

Originally Posted by Jurassic Referee

Real world?

You got two coaches that need an explanation. Neither of them is going to be happy. Grumpy Ol' Assignor has to issue something to both coaches that will tell them what the proper call should have been according to their particular set of playing rules. And in their particular set of playing rules, there is NO rule that Grumpy Ol' Assignor knows of that will allow an official to go back and cancel the basket. And btw, Grumpy Ol' Assignor also asked his association's interpreter, Mr. Grumpy Ol' Rules Interpreter, if he knew of any rule that would apply. Grumpy Ol' Rules Interpreter couldn't come up with a rule either that would let an official go back and cancel the basket because a violation was not called at some point prior to that basket being scored. So, Grumpy Ol' Assignor has to write a letter to both coaches and the league saying that, unfortunately, one of his officials musunderstood a rule and failed to call a violation that he should have called. And then his fellow official came up with another ruling that is not supportedaddressed by any rule in the book to retroactively call the missed violation and cancel the made basket. Grumpy Ol' Assignor wrote that the proper ruling on the court would have been to count the made basket because there was no rules provision to do otherwise. Grumpy Ol' Assignor then apologizes to both coaches and their league on behalf of both officials and his association, and assures them that such a situation will not happen again in the future.

Would the officials get dinged? You bet your sweet azz that both officials are getting dinged. The first official is getting dinged for not knowing that the wire is OOB. The second official is getting dinged for cancelling a made basket without having any rules provision to do so.

Mr. Grumpy Ol' Assignor is not a happy man, BillyJoeBob. Fair is fair, but rulez is rulez too. Sometmes they don't meet.

And btw, in the real world, the team that had the basket taken away always loses by 1.

cough cough...