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i watched this game... and the particulars need to be explained, cuz it was unbelievable, and feels wrong.
St Mary's takes a 4 point lead with 12ish seconds left and Priory takes their last timeout. So, all SM has to do is play solid defense for 7 seconds...even if they score, they don't have to inbound the ball. And they do just that... Priory scored with less than 5 seconds left to make it a 2 point game. The official in front of the Priory bench calls timeout for Priory. Technical foul, right? 1.5 seconds left. Game over.... But wait... Priory coach denies calling for a timeout. So, the officials make St. Mary's inbound the ball under their basket with 1.5 seconds.
How can this be????? I get the rules... seems like a giant loophole. again, the game is over as the clock would've run out. I feel like the officials should've had the ability to call the game right there.
Now, it still should not have gone to OT... SM had a horrendous turnover with no time elapsed (brain fart on the inbounder... she somehow inbounded the ball to herself... figure that one out). then they played atrocious defense on the inbound play to give up an uncontested layup.
Now, I think the officials started giving the 50/50 calls to st mary's in OT, cuz they knew they screwed up. There were 2 foul calls that should've fouled out smith that they gave to other players., and they let a hard contest by smith go with under a minute left that probably should've been called that would've tied the game (or got them within a possession, can't remember). And I think the happiest guy in the gym after the game was the official who screwed up.
Yeah I was watching too and it seemed like the official tried to anticipate what they thought might happen without knowing the full context. Really tough spot for St. Mary's. But didn't Priory call timeout after the SM turnover?
the official would've known priory had no timeouts.
the only things that make sense:
the official swears he heard a timeout call, but whatever noise he heard sounded like 'timeout', but wasn't
or
the coach is lying
or
someone in the stands was yelling for the team to call timeout
or
the official had a brain fart.
or
the official did it intentionally (money, vendetta, mobster threat)
#3 seems the most innocent, yet most damaging. Seems like a giant loophole you can game... As a coach, I might have a person in charge of being that person in that exact situation: no timeouts, need to stop the clock, be an angry fan yelling timeout please
Another late game failure by coaches and players.
Team inbounding just roll the ball. The opponent has no timeouts and won't be able to get a shot off. Just throw it off a player in bounds.
Bball IQ lacking
Team inbounding just roll the ball. The opponent has no timeouts and won't be able to get a shot off. Just throw it off a player in bounds.
Bball IQ lacking
To be fair they shouldn't have had to take the ball out at all. But I get your take.
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