Breakwood Posted November 26, 2006 Share Posted November 26, 2006 Report: Scoring gaffe in Raps-Hawks game According to a report in the Toronto Star, the scorekeepers working the Toronto Raptors' road loss to the Atlanta Hawks on Friday night mistakenly withheld two points from Raptors guard T.J. Ford with just over four minutes left in the fourth quarter.Although the Hawks still would have won had the error not happened - they defeated the Raptors 97-93 - the mistake affected the sequence of events. Had the score been right all along, the game would have been tied with 27 seconds left, giving the Raptors a chance to win.Hawks' guard Joe Johnson made a free throw with 4:42 left and the scorekeepers apparently awarded the point to the Raptors, making the score 85-79 instead of the correct 86-78. Then, Ford raced down the court for his layup. At that point, the scorekeepers realized they had made a mistake on the Johnson free throw and took away the point from Toronto and gave it to Atlanta.Subsequently, they didn't give Toronto the two points for Ford's layup. The eight-point lead on the scoreboard should have been six.Related Info"Right now, I don't know how to feel," Raptors coach Sam Mitchell told the Star. "The scary thing is let's say we would have lost the game by one, then what? . . . Let's say we lose the game by one point and then they go back and realize some kind of way they misplaced two points. Does the NBA come back and award you the win?"The loss was the Raptors' seventh in eight games and they have not won on the road since defeating the New York Knicks on March 21, 2006 at Madison Square Garden.With files from the Toronto Star Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TFoA Posted November 26, 2006 Share Posted November 26, 2006 There are so many Hawks jokes I can make right now, it's unreal... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HedleyLamarr Posted November 26, 2006 Share Posted November 26, 2006 Doesn't the NBA have an official scorekeeper at each game? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jigga Posted November 26, 2006 Share Posted November 26, 2006 It's the NBA, everyone knows all the games are fixed. It's easy to see that David Stern hates the Toronto Raptors and the refs and scorers are all in cahoots.People make mistakes. No one is perfect at their job. We're all merely between ups. On January 16, 2013 at 3:49 PM, NJTank said: Btw this is old hat for Notre Dame. Knits Rockne made up George Tip's death bed speech. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cyclopsis Joe Posted November 26, 2006 Share Posted November 26, 2006 I don't follow basketball, but I clicked on this thinking it was the Hawks coach crying after Atlanta lost with a bunch of replies like:"Durr, shut up you lost."At least I was half right. I don't speak for democrats, democrats don't speak for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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