<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">The Raptor travelling road show took off from Pearson yesterday afternoon with the regular numbers and a new responsibility. After the fiasco in Atlanta on Friday, when Hawks officials missed a key Raptor basket — an oversight that never registered with the Toronto bench — the team has now decided one of its approximately 40-member travelling group will be solely responsible for making sure all of the team's points are counted. Keith D'Amelio, the team's assistant trainer and strength and conditioning coach, is now in charge of scoreboard watching. With other members of the staff otherwise engaged, D'Amelio was given the new task starting tonight in Oklahoma City.NBA officials were still reviewing the gaffe in Atlanta yesterday and had no comment.</div> Source
<div class="quote_poster">Chutney Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">What are the chances that this ever happens again?</div> with the raps- likely.
<div class="quote_poster">deception Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">with the raps- likely.</div> thats so true but ya since when has this EVER happened?
if that basket had counted we could have easily won that game, and be in sole posetion of 1st in our division 6-8 is only 2 games below .500 and not bad at all for a team thats by all accounts supposed to go back to the lottery.
<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">Raptor basket now forever lost Nov. 29, 2006. 01:00 AM OKLAHOMA CITY—After four days of apparent deliberation, the NBA office finally completed its review of T.J. Ford's lost layup in Friday night's loss in Atlanta. While league spokesperson Tim Frank acknowledged an error was made when Ford's field goal with 4:33 to play wasn't counted, the bucket won't be retroactively added to Ford's stats. The final score will remain in the record books at 97-93, even though the league acknowledges the Raptors scored 95 points. The Hawks, who apologized for the error of their scorer's table employees and stats crew, will not be fined. An NBA rule states that scoring mistakes must be caught before the end of the game to be rectified.</div> Raptors basket lost forever
I find it funny how David Stern goes on a crusade to get the players to dress professionally and standardize the uniforms while problems that actually affect the games like this are just passed over. I mean come on! I know we lost this game and the points are never coming back but should it really be necessary for each team to have a coach counting the score? It wouldn't be that hard for the league to put in place a system to prevent errors from occurring.
There definitely should've been a fine. Obviously we weren't going to get the points back, but he's letting the Hawks get off the hook way to easily.
About a week too late, no? This is probably never going to happen again.. if it ends up screwing us in the end of the year, then ****.. it happens, it probably wont, but if it does.. theres nothing that can be done now.
The chances of it happening again I would guess are pretty slim, but I guess its good to be sure anyway. Seems like a not very rewarding job for the guy who has to do it, considering the very unlikely chance that it will happen again.
The Hawk's scorekeeper should fired plain and simple. How can you screw up so bad and still keep your job? The point that this kind of thing never happens means that this guy screwed up monumentally. If this happened against the Lakers or the Knicks, I'm sure things would have been handled differently by both the league and the media.
