The NBL recreation between the Sydney Kings and Cairns Taipans was marred by an embarrassing delay that precipitated play to be stopped for almost an hour.
The Kings had been main 48-37 at halftime however when each groups had been able to resume play in the beginning of the third quarter, they couldn’t as a result of the shot clock wasn’t working.
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It’s unclear what precisely precipitated the technical drawback on the Cairns Convention Centre, however gamers and spectators needed to twiddle their thumbs for 51 minutes earlier than play resumed.
In farcical scenes, the shot clock nonetheless wasn’t working and each groups agreed to play out the sport with no shot clock and no threat of a 24-second violation.
The Kings held on for a 86-83 victory. In a wild end, Jonah Antonio nailed a deep three-pointer off the backboard and thought he had tied the sport for Cairns on the demise.
Ironically, a shotclock would have been useful in that second and replays confirmed Antonio put up his shot after the ultimate buzzer went.
The shot clock malfunction was an embarrassing search for Australia’s premier basketball league and created all kinds of points in regards to the integrity of the competition between the Kings and Taipans.
On a number of events, Kings star Jaylen Adams appeared to benefit from the absence of a shot clock by dribbling away within the again court docket and milking the clock earlier than lastly attacking the ring.
ESPN basketball reporter Olgun Uluc tweeted: “This Sydney Kings vs Cairns Taipans game has now been delayed more than 30 minutes due to what NBL CEO David Stevenson has called “power challenges”.
“Among other things, the shot clock doesn’t work in the Cairns Convention Centre. Kings lead 48-37 at the half.
“After a 51-minute delay, the 2nd half of this game is now underway. They’ve agreed to play without a shot clock. The NBL is Australia’s premier professional basketball league, apparently.”
Kings coach Mahmoud Abdelfattah mentioned in the course of the delay: “I’ve never been a part of anything like this so we just need to go with the flow.
“No explanation for it. But hopefully both teams will be ready and hopefully nobody gets hurt.”
Source: www.news.com.au
