Donovan hit a three that put us up 6 with 37 seconds left. There was a foul called on the play. The official calling the foul rules it continuation on the floor.
The officials then determine to go to replay. Officials are allowed to go to replay to determine timing of plays. For instance, they can determine if there was a shot clock violation, or they can determine if a foul happened before or after a shot clock violation. They can not change the actual ruling on the floor in terms of what was actually called that doesn't have to do with timing. I.e. they can't go to replay (on their own) and determine that a defensive foul on the floor was actually an offensive foul upon review. They can review those on a coach's challenge, but on a review triggered by the officials, they can only change the call in relation to the timing or on something like a goal-tend, but otherwise not the actual substance of the call. One great example of this is when we were playing Memphis and they blew the "inadvertent whistle" and couldn't make the correct call of JJJ's over-the-back on Gobert, so it ended up being a jump ball. The apologetics for the officials is from the guys who go out of their way to demonstrate how they're objective and not bias is "hey, that's the right call, and they're not allowed to make changes on that. Tough luck."
What happened here is that the official totally blew the call, in a pretty historic fashion. There was no contact anywhere. I suspect he realized that he totally blew the call. So when they go to review, technically the only thing they can change is whether it was continuation or if it happened on the floor (either way Donovan is shooting free throws). Since the whole sequence of when the player called for the foul was by Donovan happened a couple seconds earlier, they can't sit there and look at that video and continue to say there was continuation (hey, it would have been nice if they would have called inadvertent whistle like they other yahoos did). But instead they did what they cannot do -- they changed the actual foul to being something way earlier in the sequence and a completely different player being fouled. Of course they had to justify blowing the whistle. And they can't claim that they were trying to review whether or not Donovan got the shot up before Gobert was fouled because the official's call on the floor that you can watch is him blowing a whistle on the foul and signifying that the basket counted. It's when that official looks to his left to the other official who did the inbound that he calls for a review.
But, hey, it doesn't matter. Anyone who has sway would burry their head in the sand and pretend there's some marvelous, nuanced answer for why this happen and not just that they totally, completely, absolutely ****ed this up and did their best to cover for it. Apparently officials can never change the foul to get the call right on their own reviews, and we'll continue to hear that non-sense when we're in these situations, but apparently they can break that rule when it's used to cover up the worst call of the season.
The officials then determine to go to replay. Officials are allowed to go to replay to determine timing of plays. For instance, they can determine if there was a shot clock violation, or they can determine if a foul happened before or after a shot clock violation. They can not change the actual ruling on the floor in terms of what was actually called that doesn't have to do with timing. I.e. they can't go to replay (on their own) and determine that a defensive foul on the floor was actually an offensive foul upon review. They can review those on a coach's challenge, but on a review triggered by the officials, they can only change the call in relation to the timing or on something like a goal-tend, but otherwise not the actual substance of the call. One great example of this is when we were playing Memphis and they blew the "inadvertent whistle" and couldn't make the correct call of JJJ's over-the-back on Gobert, so it ended up being a jump ball. The apologetics for the officials is from the guys who go out of their way to demonstrate how they're objective and not bias is "hey, that's the right call, and they're not allowed to make changes on that. Tough luck."
What happened here is that the official totally blew the call, in a pretty historic fashion. There was no contact anywhere. I suspect he realized that he totally blew the call. So when they go to review, technically the only thing they can change is whether it was continuation or if it happened on the floor (either way Donovan is shooting free throws). Since the whole sequence of when the player called for the foul was by Donovan happened a couple seconds earlier, they can't sit there and look at that video and continue to say there was continuation (hey, it would have been nice if they would have called inadvertent whistle like they other yahoos did). But instead they did what they cannot do -- they changed the actual foul to being something way earlier in the sequence and a completely different player being fouled. Of course they had to justify blowing the whistle. And they can't claim that they were trying to review whether or not Donovan got the shot up before Gobert was fouled because the official's call on the floor that you can watch is him blowing a whistle on the foul and signifying that the basket counted. It's when that official looks to his left to the other official who did the inbound that he calls for a review.
But, hey, it doesn't matter. Anyone who has sway would burry their head in the sand and pretend there's some marvelous, nuanced answer for why this happen and not just that they totally, completely, absolutely ****ed this up and did their best to cover for it. Apparently officials can never change the foul to get the call right on their own reviews, and we'll continue to hear that non-sense when we're in these situations, but apparently they can break that rule when it's used to cover up the worst call of the season.
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