Why did they take away Lin's 3?

I watched the game on CSN-H, so I went back to look at WTF happened on the DAL feed. At the end of the half, the DAL announcers concluded that it was obviously good and it wasn't going to be overturned, because they pulled up a still shot frame with the game clock at 0.01 sec and the ball a good 4 inches out of Lin's hand. After the break, apparently they got a still shot of Lin with two fingers on the ball as the backboard lights went off and overturned on that. Yeah, it was still touching Lin's hand at 0.03 sec.

In case anybody doesn't know. It has been clarified about 2,000 times by now that the backboard lights and the horns are not official. If they desynch from the game clock, the officials are supposed to go by the game clock. Basically, you have a clearcut case of 100% poor officiating aided by DAL video crew. The officials should have asked whether they had a 0.01 sec frame, which they did have, and it showed conclusively that the shot was off in time.

 

I saw the same feed. It was CLEAR THE BALL WAS OUT OF LIN'S HANDS with .1 on the clock. But of course that angle never gets shown again. The Mavs announcers were certain it was gonna count.

If that was BRoy hitting a gamewinner on TNT against the Rockets at home it would have counted.

 

Here is the Mavs broadcast, starts around 2:26 when the commentators start showing the different angles of the 3point shot.

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clutch... can the nba look at this and do anything about it? im curious on this... i no the answer is prob no.. but didnt know if something like this ever happened in the past

 

turned over because of this? Don't they need conclusive evidence?

What a coincidence that the half-time line was Dallas giving us 1 point.

 

From watching this, I think the refs did the right thing but not counting it.

 

Ya I kept putting it in slow mo around 1:46-1:47 to watch it in live action and it's hard to see Lin's 2 fingers, but apparently the other angle around 2:35 is enough proof for the refs to overturn it.

 

not in sync with the red light apparently. still was very close either way.

 

I just wonder why it is so hard to have something like the clock and the red light synced.

For situations exactly like this.

I wish I was a casual NBA fan who followed star players instead of one team. I'd find the NBA enjoyable.

 

that was one of the most r****ded things I have ever seen in the NBA.

 

you can see the "Light beginning to come on"?

Uh no. That's impossible, you see the light turn on or don't, you can't see it in the process it travels at 3E^8 m/s.

 

You haven't watched much NBA then....

It was a VERY close play. Could have gone either way.

 

Lol so they waited for a turnover and a last second shot from Lin to make sure they got their -1...

 

Probably the same way the head ref prevented his fellow ref from ejecting Dirk.. That older ref was just about to give Dirk his 2nd T when the lead ref intervened and reminded his fellow ref that it was "Dirk".... the NBA wanted DAL to win this one

 

Beacuse of Lakers.

 

There isn't a frame that shows Lin touching the ball with the red light on - how can they overturn it??????

 

There was one where It looked like two of lins fingers MIGHT be touching the ball, but that was out of like 10 different replays. No way they had enough evidence to overturn it though

 

this.