[Video] Officials appear to miss Russell Westbrook backcourt violation (Ruled incorrect call)

you think it was westbrook's momentum that carried him into the back court?

 

Aleron, I agree you appear to be correct, but it would help your case to actually post the rule instead of linking (people are lazy).

e. Any ball out-of-bounds in a team’s frontcourt or at the midcourt line cannot be passed into the backcourt. On all backcourt and midcourt violations, the ball shall be awarded to the opposing team at the midcourt line, and must be passed into the frontcourt.

EXCEPTION: During the last two minutes of the fourth period and the last two minutes of any overtime period, the ball may be passed anywhere (frontcourt or backcourt) on the court. However, if the ball is thrown into the frontcourt and an offensive player on the court fails to control the ball and causes it to go into the backcourt, his team may not be the first to touch the ball.​

 

Has to be.

Our momentum was carrying us to W.

 

It probably happens very very rarely. Perhaps never

 

It's not about the calls Harden got, and more about the phantom calls that OKC got. If this was called evenly throughout the game, it would have been another Rockets blow out.

 

On NBA rule book
Rule No.8 Section III e

 

apparently Westbrook had no idea either... as he tried to not touch the ball again running out of bound

 

So the refs got it wrong!

 

so is it cc or not?

honestly inbounding the ball constitutes full possession of it unless the other team tips it.

 

I don't care what reddit says they are wrong a lot. Just because someone got a post upvoted it does not mean anything

that's the thing, he didn't really have momentum going into the backcourt. The pass was off because he was coming in at a strong angle so he had to tip it into the back court, and it was away from his momentum

 

Late to this, only just finished watching game on delay (WOOOO!!)

I ref (not NBA!!) and was screaming for a violation because you cannot pass the inbounds from frontcourt to backcourt.
On this play Westbrook does not control the ball until the backcourt, so it is not over and back, it is a pass to the backcourt.

But NBA has extra rules to the standard international, so I checked the rule book
http://www.nba.com/analysis/rules_8.html?nav=ArticleList
Sure enough legal play. Last 2 minutes in the NBA can inbound from frontcourt to backcourt.

Good job by ref crew
I see Clutch already updated, but thought I would give my 2c anyway!

 

Check my most recent post in here. It's a violation.

 

The bit in red in your post is not in the rules as far as I can see?

http://www.nba.com/analysis/rules_8.html?nav=ArticleList

Per the rules listed by the NBA it appears a legal play.
There is no problem passing to the backcourt inside last 2 minutes according to those rules, given Westbrook did not control it, fair play.

 

Your link is from 2001, and is outdated. I was under the same impression as you until I saw the most recent rules.

https://ak-static.cms.nba.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2016/11/2016-2017-Rule-Book-Final.pdf

See page 30 (Rule 8, Section III, Item e.)

 

Clear as day!! Violation.

Thanks - so Ken Mauer strikes again.
If we lost it would have gone down with the Finley out of bounds steal in terms of outrage!!

 

Great find. Clear violation then.

 

I wonder when that exception was added. Strange how all 3 refs missed it and everyone else, including WB himself thought it was a violation.

 

What an archaic exception - it was a violation but in my eyes the rules should not be so complex. Either you can pass into the backcourt from the front court from the sideline so long as control hasn't been established or not. This whole exception for tipping is ridiculous.

 

What's interesting is that the part about tipping isn't archaic; it seems to have been added fairly recently for some reason.

I was trying to figure out why it would be okay to have control of the ball and be carried into the backcourt by your momentum, but not okay to tip the ball and retrieve it. If anything, it feels like the exception should be the other way around.

 

Something tells me the NBA will be reviewing this rule, or at least making sure refs understand it.