bcla
On our rugged Eastern foothills.....
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This was kind of a blip during the game. But after seeing all replays, what happened was that the ref immediately called Warriors ball but then went to an automatic timeout charged to the Mavericks, at which point he pointed at the Mavericks bench, which is the proper way to signal a timeout. Then he uses a thumb motion to reiterate that it's Warriors ball. If a timeout hasn't been called by the team in each quarter, there are certainly rules that require a timeout be called (against each team's number of timeouts) by a certain point in each quarter. And afterwards the Mavericks go to the other end and the Warriors go to the end where the ref has the ball, he hands it to them, and it's passed to a player for an uncontested dunk.
The Mavericks are protesting claiming that it was announced that it was declared Mavericks ball, which the evidence clearly does not show.
And the really stupid thing is that the Mavericks were waiting on the other side (that the Warriors were defending). Even if it were their possession and inbounds, why would they be on that side of the court, when the ball went out of bounds on the side where the Warriors were assembled?
The Mavericks are protesting claiming that it was announced that it was declared Mavericks ball, which the evidence clearly does not show.
And the really stupid thing is that the Mavericks were waiting on the other side (that the Warriors were defending). Even if it were their possession and inbounds, why would they be on that side of the court, when the ball went out of bounds on the side where the Warriors were assembled?
