Yeah the NFL thing made no sense, that is a totally different sport. It is insane how dumb someone can be to quote football rules in regard to basketball. This article just proves the point that the media looks for controversies and anti-official stories generate an audience. The officials handled the play correctly but this guy writes a story about how they did it wrong.

This is the reason why I don't like the idea of a 1 shot T. This would seem to be the perfect situation to give 2 shots back to the team that was taken advantage of.

I have a feeling that this play will be changed for the future in the NBA, that they will go back and replay this.

As far as Doc Rivers, that guy has been in basketball nearly all his life, and the rule has always been that way. The rarity is that the team scored and the Celtics were subject to double jeopardy, a made basket, and only 1 FT to right the wrong.

Officials are always blamed for this, because we are supposed to do the preventative officiating.

I know a former NBA observer of officials and he says it is the officials that will pay the consequences for not using proper game management. The NBA might introduce a mechanic to prevent this from happening again, similar to the NFL coin toss reaction for several years ago.

"Back In The Saddle" and "Kelvin green" are frequent posters from the Utah. I am from Utah (Salt Lake area), but I don't post much- I just lurk a lot!

I agree. I expect they'll amend the rule and allow them to remove the points by allowing them to review the video to see when the player entered the court. At levels without review, however, you can't do that as you don't know when the player entered the court.

If the NBA changes the rule, look for the media to continue to dump on the officials and claim the NBA had to change it to help out the hapless officials.

How Many NFL Officials Does It Take To Toss A Coin ???
 

Are you referring to the overtime coin toss involving an NFL referee, and Pittsburgh Steelers captain Jerome Bettis, about ten years ago? The new procedure calls for the referee to ask the captain to call heads or tails prior to tossing the coin instead of while it’s in the air. It also calls for two other officials to remain for the coin toss after they escort the captains onto the field. I'm not a big football fan, nor do I follow NFL rule changes, but I remember this incident, and found it to be very interesting.

It was a bad attempt to cheat. The player thought it would be smart to yell “hea-tails". The official went with heads as he said that first. Bettis lied publicly for some reason and did not tell the real story which caused the media to really go after the official.

The Bus definitely tried to cheat by lying about his actions. Luckily, the truth came out.

I tried to find a link to the article on the web about this very story. It's from referee.com, and is a sample article from their vaults.

In short, the NFL didn't support Triplette, but I believe they did pay him a playoff's wage anyways. That shows that Triplette was correct.

The NFL, like usual, didn't have the guts to stand up for the truth, which Bettis was afraid of. He lied in public about the situation. Luckily, the truth is out there.

I'm glad Bettis lost that game.

Are you saying the NFL through the ref "under the Bus?" ;)
Shocked I tell ya! Shocked I am!!

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