Quote: Originally Posted By mrpolo09 on 10/17/2009
i would go as far to say that this has never happened in real life. "a non-shooting foul on an inbound pass with under 2 seconds to play". If the ball wasn't inbounded, then i could see it being called. But the ball was inbounded, a second ticked off, and the offense did not get a shot off. there is just no way.

I'll disagree. In fact if you look at a lot of pbps on ESPNU you'll notice a lot of times teams don't get shots off. It happens more than you think. As for this, it's certainly hard to imagine, but let's say the ball is tipped and it's more or less a lose ball scramble where when going for the ball the defender was a half second late and ran into the kid with the ball. Obviously it's hard to imagine if the kid with the ball has total control and the defense is in position. Or let's say it was a bad pass and bounced to the offensive player and the offensive player had to charge in to get it. It's not possible the defender goes all out to get to the ball but gets there too late?

Does it happen more here than in real life...probably. At one point they had too many end of half possessions. Weber's TO is a great example, so is the '80 Olympic hockey team as examples that defy logic. But let's remember 1980 was almost 30 years ago and Weber called his timeout 15 or 16 years ago.

Quote: Originally Posted By mrpolo09 on 10/17/2009
i would go as far to say that this has never happened in real life. "a non-shooting foul on an inbound pass with under 2 seconds to play". If the ball wasn't inbounded, then i could see it being called. But the ball was inbounded, a second ticked off, and the offense did not get a shot off. there is just no way.

It couldn't have been a pass where the defender thought he could intercept it but was a half second late and collided with the offensive player? Never say never. Absolutely it's possible. I saw a kid make a great defensive play on an inbound and lunged and tipped the ball away prior to it reaching the offensive player. But what if the offensive player would have been coming toward the ball and what if the defensive player was a split second late? Foul upon clock starting which means that with :01, the foul occurs before time expires.

Quote: Originally Posted By taz21 on 10/19/2009How about the obvious answer? HD is just messing with Kelby03

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