UNC-Asheville/Syracuse End of 1st Half

[APG]

Originally Posted by GROUPthink

The crew looked bad on the out of bounds play right after this. The announcers are right -- either call the foul or call the OOB correctly. Film don't lie.

That play was brutal.

[tref]

Originally Posted by AllPurposeGamer

That play was brutal.

So the guys that didnt get in definitely have some ammunition now
I hope this crew treated their peers well...

[rulesmaven]

What a shame. This was all set up to be a great smackdown of the in game announcers blatently not knowing a rule and making themselves look silly. They were so strident about what they thought was a wrong "lane violation" call, that it would have really been nice to see them have to eat their words.

But, of course, the crew has to go and make a brutal OOB call, so that now they get to acknowledge the tv guys blew it on the lane violation stuff but still were right about the crew. Bummer.

[JRutledge]

Originally Posted by rulesmaven

What a shame. This was all set up to be a great smackdown of the in game announcers blatently not knowing a rule and making themselves look silly. They were so strident about what they thought was a wrong "lane violation" call, that it would have really been nice to see them have to eat their words.

But, of course, the crew has to go and make a brutal OOB call, so that now they get to acknowledge the tv guys blew it on the lane violation stuff but still were right about the crew. Bummer.

The Studio guys made it clear this was a lane violation.

And they are talking to John Adams now.

Peace

[JRutledge]

Also John Adams came in and set everyone straight with the lane violation calls. They talked to him live and he commented on the rules. Then again it was on TruTV, so many might not have seen it.

Peace

[SCalScoreKeeper]

I was driving home from the gym when the madness over that inbounds play started.Can someone post the tape of the play and Adams comments on the postgame show?

[BktBallRef]

Too bad they didn't ask him about the play at the end of the 1st half.

[APG]

Originally Posted by JRutledge

Also John Adams came in and set everyone straight with the lane violation calls. They talked to him live and he commented on the rules. Then again it was on TruTV, so many might not have seen it.

Peace

What did the commentators say in response? I was away from the TV and missed it.

[BktBallRef]

Originally Posted by AllPurposeGamer

What did the commentators say in response? I was away from the TV and missed it.

First, Adams said the violation was on the player in the first space who stepped in slightly early. Then, they pointed out the guard who came from outside the arc and asked wasn't that a violation too. John didn't even see that until they pointed it out. "Oh, oh, yeah, that too" is basically what he said. That didn't come off to good.

He then said he didn't know which one they called. Hell, the C was pointing at the kid and the path he took.

"Oh yeah, now I see it."

[rulesmaven]

Originally Posted by AllPurposeGamer

What did the commentators say in response? I was away from the TV and missed it.

I actually thought the studio guys were pretty good with Adams. They ran the reply of the lane violation call from an angle that I don't think he had seen before -- and followed up after he made the foot in the lane comment to get his reaction to the violation the official actually called. On the OOB play, he basically said he wasn't going to make any alibis for the crew. The commentators followed up with some good questions about whether he thought there should have been a foul on the play. (He said something about how, although he wasn't there, if they judged it after the ball hit the hand (I guess he meant, not causing the violation) he would have it as incidental contact.)

Seth Davis asked some questions about whose call the OOB should have been and even got into, very briefly, proper mechanics for the ref putting the ball at the under the basket player's disposal, which I thought was significantly better than the usual in-studio stuff. Adams had a bit of a deer-in-the-headlights aspect to him at first; he's not polished like Mike Pereira, but I think having him in the studio on these sorts of plays could be really good.