What the heck was that? The game clock malfuctions at the end of Quarter 3 in Game 2 of the Pistons/Magic series...Chauncy Billups drains a 3 with the clock stuck at 4.8 seconds.... there's no way to know whether it would have counted (w/out accessing the instant replay and using a stop-watch...which is apparently too complicated for the NBA)...and so referee Steve Javie effectively shrugs, ("eh, who knows"), raises his arms and delcares the 3-pointer is good.
WHAT??????
Afterward, the geek geniuses at TNT would take it on themselves to employ the futuristic technology required to show that the shot should NOT have counted, as it left Billups' fingertips AFTER 5.1 seconds had expired. So naturally, throughout the 4th quarter I subtracted 3 points from the Pistons score as the game went along, sarcastically reporting to myself the 'actual' score, not The Javie Score. (i.e. TV says Pistons 88, Magic 86, Kevin says "ok, Magic lead by 1".) And just because the Magic lost the game by more than 3 points, don't even try to tell me that The Javie Blunder didn't make all the difference in the world.
I really don't understand why a "do-over" wasn't called for. Come on, Stevie J. Apologize to the Pistons on behalf of the game clock (I really don't think the Pistons would have felt screwed), reset the clock to 5.1, let them inbound the ball again and get it right this time.
An absolute travesty, this incident was.
Keywords: 3-pointer, Billups, instant replay, Javie, Magic, NBA, Pistons, referee, technology, TNT
