Question from last night's game:
Near the end of the game when the ball was knocked out of Garnett's hand and the call went to instant replay, everyone was pretty much in agreement that the ball was clearly touched by Garnett last.
Wouldn't that be true, though, 95% of the time that the ball is knocked out of someone's hands? If you slow down the replay to watch who had the last contact with the ball, generally the "knocker" has dislodged the ball and the "knockee" who is losing control is the last one, technically, to touch the ball as it slides out of his hands. Yet the ball will almost always be awarded to the knockee.
Is instant replay changing the rules of the game?
Near the end of the game when the ball was knocked out of Garnett's hand and the call went to instant replay, everyone was pretty much in agreement that the ball was clearly touched by Garnett last.
Wouldn't that be true, though, 95% of the time that the ball is knocked out of someone's hands? If you slow down the replay to watch who had the last contact with the ball, generally the "knocker" has dislodged the ball and the "knockee" who is losing control is the last one, technically, to touch the ball as it slides out of his hands. Yet the ball will almost always be awarded to the knockee.
Is instant replay changing the rules of the game?