Kent Brockman
Years ago
SMS from a cairns local at the game says it was called full time after Dusty hit the game winner on the buzzer.
(Mod: More has happened since this post, I believe.)
Kent Brockman
Years ago
had to sms him to get back to the stadium so i can find out more soon.
King Of Old School
Years ago
Isaac, What has your bro told you?
Also, surely someone could get in touch with Cat to find out!
Isaac
Years ago
Haven't spoken to him. Figured that if they needed to return the stadium, the players wouldn't want to be distracted.
EC
Years ago
Why is there any confusion? The Taipans' scoreboard showed the clock timed out at 0.00 with a score of 90 to the Taipans and 92 to the Sixers. NBL site also shows the results as 92-90. Why is there any doubt?
Isaac
Years ago
Have you not been reading all of the posts?
Mayberry checked with the scorebench who said that the shot was after the shot clock. The other two refs agreed. Mayberry overruled all to rule the shot valid initially, before changing his mind later. The players shook hands, and the Sixers started to leave. The decision was made to call it 90-90 and play the last 0.7 seconds with a Taipans possession, but the Sixers had left and were back at their hotel in the pool.
The NBL requested that the team return to the stadium to play the 0.7 seconds and maybe overtime. The Sixers refused. The NBL advised the Taipans to lodge a complaint tomorrow.
That's why there's some doubt. I wouldn't really take any online scoreboard as authority.
EC
Years ago
I left home to go out immediately after the game ended. I left extremely happy about the win and quite shocked to come back home to all this controversy. Hope it sorts itself out in our favour as there cannot possible be any excuse for the umpires to change their decision so long after the game ended and the Sixers had already left. As far as the score bench goes, I doubt any one of them were supporting the Sixers. The umpire makes the decision and if it is not protested by the other umpires right there on the spot, then that decision counts.
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