Rockets screwed by Portland timekeeper

[Indazone]

Not the first time in history homecourt and a biased timekeeper and officials win the game for the home team. Glory to the Soviets in 1972

The Soviets in-bounded the ball right away , but the referee, Renato Righetto of Brazil, blew the whistle with one second on the clock. Following a conference with the officials, it was determined that the Soviet head coach Vladimir Kondrashkin had called a time out. The decision was made to put three seconds back on the clock. At issue was the Soviets' contention that they had signaled for a time-out between Collins' two free throws. The game officials never acknowledged the time out. The validity of whether a time-out was legally signaled for is still open to question.
After the Soviets in-bounded the ball a second time, the horn sounded signaling an apparent American victory. Moments later, the teams were ordered back on the floor because the clock had not been properly reset to show three seconds remaining. Because of this mistake by the scorer's table, the celebrating Americans stood in disbelief when they were told they had not won anything yet. "We couldn't believe that they were giving them all these chances," said U.S. forward Mike Bantom. "It was like they were going to let them do it until they got it right."
"They had to reset the clock, so they (the Soviets) got a third chance," said L.A Times writer Randy Harvey. "The Americans thought that at every turn they had been cheated when, in fact, they probably hadn't been. But they'll never acknowledge that." This time the Russians ran a play which used a pass the length of the court. The result a Russian basket and a 51-50 win.

[sook]

DaDa don't try to justify it. The rockets simply didn't play D.

Our starters didn't even stick their hands up to contest portland's shots the entire game. Maybe they'll wake the up now.


Btw tell Clutch to unban me, its been over a month

[Roxsfan]

the rox deserved to lose that game. Let it hurt them, they deserve it after that showing.

I love how mavs fans(since they don't have any hope) create a circle-jerk after every rox loss........

[Red Hawk #21]

Tracy definitely gave Roy a step, and that seemed to be the difference, but Roy was fighting for that.

What I don't understand is why Yao, who was guarding the inbounder (?) didn't even step to the direction of the ball when it was passed in. He was easily 3 feet away from Roy; if he jumps to the ball on that pass, Roy suddenly has to shoot over the Great Wall of China.

With 0.8 seconds on the clock, you know wherever the ball is getting passed, the shot is going up. I'm not sure what he hoped to accomplish by sticking with the inbounder, but it seemed like a pretty big mental lapse.

This is a great point you make here Dex.

[himat]

I am of the opinion that anything under 1 second is impossible to get a shot off. It'd be like you'd have to be a vollyball player. Ball touches your hand and you have to just punch it in the direction of the hoop. Impossible in less than 1 sec to set your feet, square up, shoot the ball.

Rockets played terrible defense on that play accept it. It is very possible to shoot the ball with under 1 second to go because the player only shoots the ball. He does not square up or set his feet because their is not enough time for that.