Here's my bet: NBL will fine Adelaide $5000 for not showing up for the official post-match conference, and leave the result as is. Too much of a headache to replay 0.7 seconds, or replay the whole game.

Can someone explain to me how there would be 0.7 sec remaining on the clock? I thought Dusty got the shot off just before the shot clock buzzer, and there was about 0.7 sec remaining on the game clock, surely time would of elapsed during the flight of the ball?

They want the shot cancelled and the final 0.7 seconds played with the scores at 90-90 and them in possession, AFAIK.

Apparently there was footage on ch7 news and fox sports. I havnt seen it but most are in agreeance that from the video footage you cant tell if he got it off in time or not - to close to call.

Did not Breheny say that he hung around to do interviews etc with Reesy?

There are a lot of mixed reports about this even to the point that the sixers were still in the building 10 minutes after the game was called and that it was only after Allan Black marched a scoretable official into the referees rooms that a change of decision was made.

Most people in the stands had left under the impression that Adelaide had won.

The sixers left the stadium under the impression they had won.

The points were counted as good, game over.

Bring on the Kings!

You tell em Kent. How much they expected to do with .7 of a second and the ball at the opposite side of the court is beyond me. Superman himself would not have achieved that.

Isaac, how can the NBL fine the Sixers? For heavens sake, they were already cooling down in a swimming pool. The refs had already left the court and went into the changerooms before any dispute was mentioned. There has to be a reasonable time frame to get a team to come back and this was way beyond reasonable. Also the fact that it took so long leaves a lot of doubts as to whether the Taipans had a reasonable claim or not. Where Juanita O'brien says we owe it to the fans who waited around for 1 hour for Adelaide to come back, well that was their choice, the Sixers had no obligation to them whatsoever. Sore losers is exactly what they are appearing to be. If they had any obligation at all, it would be to their own fans to see a fair outcome from this game.

The Taipans need to get over it. They feel like they were screwed and while they should feel angry about it, they should be thankful that the game was only a regular season game and not a semi-final decider like the last 36ers game that had a very highly questionable conclusion. The NBL has ruled, nothing good can come out of continuing the arguement.

EC, I think clubs are fined if they don't provide a coach and player for post-game press conferences, but might be wrong. Someone on Ozhoops said something about a $5000 penalty. I guess we'll see.

People in Cairns said that there were no Sixers at the press conference when Black made his statements.

Breheny & Rees stayed back. With the hostility going on after the game, they put their well being on the line. I would not blame them for not staying around any longer than they had to.

Correct it is a $5000 fine for not supplying someone from coaching staff and playing staff for press conferences after the game (funnily enough, Adelaide only do press conferences for Fox games to get vox pops for the late news)

I dont know how Cairns do it, but I have been to many press conferences in Adelaide, and also a couple in Melbourne, and both times the opposing coaches and players do not have their conference at the same time. So for no Sixers to be there when Black made his comments would be a correct thing, and nothing out of the ordinary.

I think Cairns had the right to protest the decision, but once the NBL ruled the result to stand, they should have left it alone. They sound like sore losers now.

hopefully the nbl will squash this quick. Its getting sad now. 2 decisions have been made, the tiapans may have been screwed but get over it.

I think they should just get over and concentrate on the 30 or so games left in the season. Their protest was knocked back so obviously the shot was good and thats that.