The wild sequence at the end of the Nuggets-Wolves game on Tuesday, where Russell Westbrook broke a lay-up and made a call that lost the game never happens if the referees receive a call a few seconds before.
The NBA revealed in their last two -minute report Wednesday that a game game that had led to a jumping ball should have been Denver’s ball to start. Instead, the officials have not seen who the rock was released for the last time and called a Midcourt Jumpball. This led to a chaotic end where the Wolves won in double extension 140-139.
Decreasing 138-137 with 20 seconds to play in the sixth period, Westbrook went to the line where he divided two free throws. By missing the second blow, the limits seemed to come out of a Wolves player, but the referees did not see it and called a jump ball. With the two teams out of the challenges of Lost Reviews earlier in the game, the game remained like a jumping ball.
“The two teams were out of the challenge at the time of the limits, so you cannot see him again,” said team leader Sean Wright after the match.
The NBA said on Wednesday that in fact, the ball came out of Julius Randle and should have been given to the Nuggets.
This out -of -limited game can be consulted here.
But the Nuggets lost their challenge in the middle of the second quarter on a charge of Aaron Gordon. However, the Nuggets would probably have already used their challenge and might have won the match when it was 111-110 at the end of the fourth quarter, and Nikola Jokic seemed to tear Rudy Gobert’s balloon. Jokic quickly launched a pass to the courtyard at a large open Peyton Watson, who would have given a lead to the Nuggets. Instead, Gobert hit the pair and Jokic received a fifth fault. This call was confirmed as correct in the L2M report.
Quick advance towards the jump ball.
He was canceled by a loose ball who sent Jokic on the free throw line. He also divided his shots to give the Nuggets an advance of 139-138 with 17 seconds to play.
But this jump does not even occur if the nuggets have their challenge or if the officials on the spot examine it or simply make the right call to start.
The Nuggets could therefore have passed the clock to about five seconds and fired a shot on a winner in a matching match. The Wolves had a time again and could have answered by moving the ball in the front area. We do not know how the game takes place if the correct call is made with 20 seconds to play. What is obvious is that the double blunder of Westbrook never happens. There would simply have been much less time in the game if the nuggets obtained the ball downright instead that Jokic was at fault on the jump.
In reality, after Jokic has put coarse shots, the Wolves advanced the ball and wrote a third chance of winning at the horn. Edwards obtained the inbound pass but was trapped around. His pass to Randle was taken by Westbrook, who sprinted the ground. Joined by Braun, the two played Catch, with Westbrook taking a lay-up with nine seconds to play, which ended up being the last Nuggets shot. He missed. The Wolves joined the rebound and rushed to the ground, where the ball walked towards Nickeil Alexander-Walker in the area. His shot was not close, but the uncontrolled competition of Westbrook sent him to the line where Naw won him for the Wolves. This piece was examined to see if it was time when Westbrook was called for the fault, and it was not clear.
“Once we go to the instructor, the game is examined and we see at what time the illegal contact has really occurred, illegal contact occurred at 0.1, so 0.1 is then put on the clock and you pull the three free throws and play with this time,” said Wright.
The L2M confirmed that the shot failure that ended the game was the right call.
But if we live in the L2M world, Westbrook is probably never in this situation to start. Jokic is probably backing up a defender and takes a late shot as he did on the early overtime.
