washington 89 atlanta 91....scary

[Brave Sir Rubin]

quoting the live stats at nba.com

(0:00) End Game ATL 91, WAS 89
(0:00) [ATL 91-89] Abdur-Rahim Jump Shot: Made (24 PTS) Assist: Henderson (4 AS
(0:00) [ATL] Ratliff Substitution replaced by Henderson
(0:00) [WAS] Laettner Substitution replaced by Simmons
(0:00) [WAS] Brown Substitution replaced by Haywood
(0:00) [ATL] Ham Substitution replaced by Terry
(0:00) [ATL] Team Timeout: Regular
(0:00) [ATL] Newble Rebound (Off:0 Def:3)
(0:00) [WAS] Jordan Jump Shot: Missed
(0:21) [ATL] Terry Substitution replaced by Ham
(0:21) [WAS] Team Timeout: Regular
(0:21) [WAS] Laettner Rebound (Off:0 Def:6)
(0:25) [ATL] Terry Jump Shot: Missed Block: Lue (1 BLK)
(0:46) [WAS 89-89] Laettner Jump Shot: Made (10 PTS) Assist: Jordan (7 AST)
(1:03) [ATL 89-87] Abdur-Rahim Free Throw 2 of 2 (22 PTS)

in 1 second michael jordan managed to miss a shot and RAhim managed to score on...lol..i'd love to see the highlight of that buzzerbeater...


tough loss for the wizz who seen to be practicly elliminated...

[Colin]

There must be an error there. Alan Henderson got the assist on the last shot, which means there was a pass after the inbounds pass. In one second there can't be a missed shot, rebound, timeout, inbounds, second pass and a made jumpshot.

[Brave Sir Rubin]

ATLANTA 91, WASHINGTON 89
Box Score | Hawks Home | Wizards Home




ATLANTA (Ticker) -- First, the Atlanta Hawks honored Michael Jordan. Then they did serious damage to his playoff hopes.

Shareef Abdur-Rahim scored 24 points and got a fortuituous bounce at the buzzer to give the Hawks a 91-89 victory over Jordan and the Washington Wizards.

The game was tied with six-tenths of a second left when Alan Henderson lobbed the inbounds pass from the left sideline to Abdur-Rahim along the right baseline.

The 6-9 forward made a one-handed catch, landed and quickly hurled the ball toward the basket. The shot hit the left side of the rim, popped up and dropped through to end the Hawks' three-game losing streak.

In his final game in Atlanta, Jordan was honored with a video tribute at halftime. He responded with a season-high 14 rebounds and scored 12 of his 22 points in the fourth quarter. But he failed to break a 89-89 deadlock, hitting the back of the rim with a jumper with 3.5 seconds remaining.

The Wizards' losing streak grew to four games and they slipped 2 1/2 behind idle Milwaukee for the final postseason berth in the Eastern Conference with seven games to play

jurdan's shot left his hands at 3.5 secs, hit the rim at about 2 secs and the hawks called the time out at 0.6...plus henderson had no assist...silly NBA.com live stats

[GloveGuy]

Henderson was the rebounder. I don't think the Hawks should've been given .6 seconds. And I definitely think that Shareef pushed off on Michael.

Tremendous fourth quarter by Jordan. He brought up the ball and did everything for the Wizards

[Andrew]

A nice stat line for MJ: 22 points, 14 rebounds, 7 assists, 2 steals and 0 turnovers in 43 minutes...but Washington is in serious trouble in the scramble for the 8th spot. I don't think it's impossible for them to make it yet, but the numbers are still against them with 8 games left on their schedule.

[Full Surface]

Those damn refs need to know what to call, seriously. Here's my observations:

1) I recorded the whole game (like I do on most of the Wizards games), and I viewed the last quarter two or three times. Atlanta called for a time out at 0.4 seconds left, not 0.6 because I looked at when the player was making the time out sign and it was on 0.4.

2) If anyone saw replays on TV, you'll see that Shareef pushes Jordan as soon as the ball was thrown, another bad call by the refs. Now when got the ball in his hands, the time was supposed to be winding down but it had some lag time since the clock operators took about 0.2 seconds to get the clock moving.

Oh well. I'd say that was big bs that they didn't call a foul on Reef for that shove. It was a big shove but it certainly enough for a foul.

[slipknot]

Heh that was bad for the wizards. tough...

[EGarrett]

refuze...you expect the refs and timekeepers to be accurate to the individual frame of your video tape?

And Michael has received and dished plenty of push-offs in his career...at the last second they are rarely if ever called.

[bballer22]

thats not the point, the point is that thats what happend... i have hihglight tape of Magic Jhonson and he shot the ball from mid court with 0.01 on the clock. it was a home game, fot ATL, they got the fovor from the clock!!!

[Full Surface]

Actually, the refs have the same footage as I do. I don't see how they could of missed the time out at 0.4 seconds when they reviewed the tape.