Great Win, But I’m Still Upset
And not because Dirk got a wide open attempt at a three in the last second. And not even because on the previous posession Jet shot the ball with 0.9 seconds remaining and yet the officials reset the clock to 2 seconds for the inbounds pass. So what then? Watch the video and see if you notice it.
Did anyone else notice how Dirk is allowed to run almost the entire width of the court out of bounds, bump into Manu (defending the inbounds), then step in and accept the inbounds pass? Watch it again, I’ll be here all day.
I’m not entirely surprised a lot of people missed it; after all we’re just fans. But how about the officials; shouldn’t they have stopped the play then? I understand it’s difficult to call fouls on the last play of the game; but when it’s something blatantly obvious and pretty easy to identify the call should be made. This is easy to forget since Dirk missed anyway (he’s just not a game winning kind of guy is he?), but this kind of officiating needs to be corrected.
Two mini-observations:
- After coming up with a great block on Jet, how does Elson lose Dirk on the inbounds anyways?
- Watch the video again and check out Timmeh’s expression when Dirk shoots. Classic!
Stole this video from PtR…