Unfortunately they had completely blown two out of bounds calls that were clearly, both in real time and replayed on the jumbotron, off Golden State, but not reviewable because they didn't happen in the last two minutes. According to this article: "NBA president of basketball operations Rod Thorn told the Associated Press that replay times averaged about 49 seconds during preseason testing compared with an estimated 90 seconds last season." I'm not buying it. So far, every call I've seen reviewed has taken several minutes. BTW, all replay videos are available here: http://official.nba.com/replay/archive/ I still don't see any conclusive proof the ball actually hit Blake. They are also supposed to have explanations of all replay decisions available online, but I can't locate them. BNM
Considering we were incapable of inbounding a ball in those final few seconds, I don't think it mattered anyway.
See my detailed comments here. Going small against GSW was a tactical mistake that played to their strength. We should have had Lopez in the game forcing them to go big with the slow footed Bogut. Send Lopez up to the elbow as a safety valve. Bogut isn't going to deny Lopez the ball 17 feet from the basket. But yeah, we blew it way more than the refs. When you have the lead and the ball with 14 seconds left, you control your own destiny. BNM
You obviously had a better look than the one shown here: http://official.nba.com/replay/archive/ Did anyone from New Jersey ask to see additional angles? Just curious, because nothing I see at the link above, nor anything I saw on the jumbotron in the arena (which is supposedly the same thing the officials are seeing) looked conclusive to me. In any case, it sounds like they got it right, even if it took them forever. Better right and slow than fast and wrong... BNM
I no longer have control over what the refs see like I used to, so I don't know what angles they were looking at. I was able to jog frame by frame and saw that it was clearly off Steve. They got this one right. Just took 5 minutes longer than it needed to.
Supposedly, if they don't have a conclusive angle, they can request additional angles from the TV trucks. Evidently, they didn't think that was necessary in this case. They got it right, so no argument there (other than with how long it took) BNM
The NBA receives about 10 camera angles from the arena if I'm not mistaken. They also get our "program feed" or what leaves the truck. If I show and angle they either don't have or haven't looked at yet and it leaves our truck on program, they can also use that. I had heard it was really taking a long time around the league in recent years and they weren't happy with it. They wanted to streamline it. It just so happen that myself and the guy next to me have always had the replays ready before the refs even had asked for them, so when it came to replays coming out in Portland, we were VERY fast. A lot faster than what you are seeing this season. I'm sure they will speed things up after they get used to it.
I read the article on Oregonlive about Wes and Nic in the locker room. Wes grabbed a computer so that they could look at the play. First of all, Nic calls a timeout (we had a 20 second one left at the time) and the refs don't blow the whistle so Nic has to rush the ball in bounds. As Wes pointed out to Nic on the computer, Klay swipes his arm three times as Nic is hurriedly trying to get the ball to him. So in Wes and Nic's point of view, the refs missed two calls (the timeout and the foul) and that is why we lost.
It really was, but they did get it right. Not so sure about that Clear Path the other night in Sac though.
