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Congrats on the win Orlando. You guys played a great ball game shooting a high percentage and controlling the ball. Hopefully for Detroit fans Chauncey will be back in game four and help make it a good game.
As for the game clock incident, I think it was more of the NBA's mistake than the refs. I don't understand why they would not allow a review at the end of every quaryer on something like this. Yes it may have taken another five minutes but at least they would have gotten it right.
As for your suggestions to replay from where the mistake happened, I can understand where you are coming from. However, with Shaq fouling out, that actually came at the end of the game and it took their best player out. If the three actually came at the end of the fourth quarter then by all means, replay.
Lets take a look at this from another angle though. Lets imagine the game clock worked correctly and Billups took it all the way to the basket and ran over Evans for a blocking call for an "and 1" with .2 seconds left. It was a terrible call though, Evans feet were planted 2 seconds before Billups even got there and he was well outside the circle. In other words, it was clearly a charge and was one of the worst calls anybody has seen all season. So Chauncey make the free throw to make it a three point play to end the quarter. Obviously any right fan would be frustrated with this call, however, I highly doubt anybody would look back at the refs mistake in the third quarter days later and say that is why our team lost. Fans would chalk it up to a terrible call (Lord knows we are used to seeing them), point it out to a few fellow fans and be done with it. Yes, my example is much different than what actually happened, but the end result was the same. Both were human errors that ended up in a three point play.
In the end, we all know Orlando was good enough to still win the game even after that call. They just weren't good enough that night.
In regards to the "riot" comments.....Yes, Detroit is a city of high crime in certain areas. I go down there on occasion and I just know where to avoid. Similar if I went down to Orlando there are certain stretches of Orange Blossom Train Road I would avoid. Yes, you made your point. Detroit fans would have obviously felt cheated at the time as well if the call had been reversed. But, to say they would riot, you and I both know that is a little bit of an exaggeration.
Anyways, congrats again on the W and good luck in game 4.
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