duncan228
02-28-2009, 10:15 PM
High-def camera saved Nets, Harris (http://www.mysanantonio.com/sports/spurs/High-def_camera_saved_Nets_Harris.html)
Mike Monroe - Express-News
Unless someone makes one of the most remarkable shots in league history, Devin Harris’ lose-it-regain-it shot from half court that beat the Sixers last Monday is going to be the league’s most amazing play of the season.
The back story is that Harris’ amazing feat would not have mattered had it not been for a bunch of guys in a truck.
Here’s the rest of the story, courtesy of our pal at the Newark Star-Ledger, Dave D’Allesandro:
The unsung hero, D’Allesandro reports, is a YES Network producer named Frank DiGraci (winner of six Emmys, nominated 26 times), the guy responsible for showing conclusive evidence to overturn a call on the floor.
Referee Derrick Stafford’s crew originally waved off the shot, so DiGraci and four tape editors looked at what they were getting from their eight high-def cameras. Only one showed everything they were looking for.
The shot that proved the ball left Harris’ hand before the lights went on came from a hand-held, high-def, super-slo-mo camera from under the basket operated by Pete Stendel.
“He followed him, because he knew where (Harris) was on the sideline, it would be too wide — you wouldn’t see anything,” DiGraci explained. “Pete’s instinct — he’s an awesome cameraman — was to follow him tight.”
DiGraci said had the camera not been high-definition it may not have been possible to discern the space between Harris’ fingers and the ball as time expired.
“And also, it’s super-slo-mo, which records three times as fast as the other machines. That’s 90 frames per second,” DiGraci told D’Allesandro.
Again, consider the time frame: “Devin got the shot off by one frame — one-30th of a second,” DiGraci said. “That’s three one-hundredths of a second. You cannot be closer to zero. There will never, ever, be another play closer in the history of the NBA than that shot. It was literally just off his fingertips.”
Mike Monroe - Express-News
Unless someone makes one of the most remarkable shots in league history, Devin Harris’ lose-it-regain-it shot from half court that beat the Sixers last Monday is going to be the league’s most amazing play of the season.
The back story is that Harris’ amazing feat would not have mattered had it not been for a bunch of guys in a truck.
Here’s the rest of the story, courtesy of our pal at the Newark Star-Ledger, Dave D’Allesandro:
The unsung hero, D’Allesandro reports, is a YES Network producer named Frank DiGraci (winner of six Emmys, nominated 26 times), the guy responsible for showing conclusive evidence to overturn a call on the floor.
Referee Derrick Stafford’s crew originally waved off the shot, so DiGraci and four tape editors looked at what they were getting from their eight high-def cameras. Only one showed everything they were looking for.
The shot that proved the ball left Harris’ hand before the lights went on came from a hand-held, high-def, super-slo-mo camera from under the basket operated by Pete Stendel.
“He followed him, because he knew where (Harris) was on the sideline, it would be too wide — you wouldn’t see anything,” DiGraci explained. “Pete’s instinct — he’s an awesome cameraman — was to follow him tight.”
DiGraci said had the camera not been high-definition it may not have been possible to discern the space between Harris’ fingers and the ball as time expired.
“And also, it’s super-slo-mo, which records three times as fast as the other machines. That’s 90 frames per second,” DiGraci told D’Allesandro.
Again, consider the time frame: “Devin got the shot off by one frame — one-30th of a second,” DiGraci said. “That’s three one-hundredths of a second. You cannot be closer to zero. There will never, ever, be another play closer in the history of the NBA than that shot. It was literally just off his fingertips.”