The Nuggets held on to beat the Bulls 90-89 as Brad Miller's game-winning shot at the buzzer was not allowed.
After a lengthy reviewed, the officials rule time had expired before the ball left Miller's hand.
After a lengthy reviewed, the officials rule time had expired before the ball left Miller's hand.
"It's such a split-second thing," coach Vinny Del Negro said. "I thought it was good. It's irrelevant. The refs had to make a call. They saw the replay probably 20 times. It's tough for the guys. We have to bounce back."
Derrick Rose tallied a team-high 22 points with Luol Deng chipping in 21.
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Brad Miller's desperation heave is too late. (Brian Cassella / Tribune)
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Brad Miller's desperation heave is too late. (Brian Cassella / Tribune)
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there shouldn't have been 0.3 seconds on the clock anyway. The game was over when the free throw was intentionally missed before that. How the one ref could come up with .3 seconds without a replay amazes me. It looked like 0.1 based on replays, so there was no time for the final shot.
This evidences why the NBA is no longer worthy of our attention. I have slowly witnessed its demise over time, and now much prefer the NCAA. Boo!!!!
Totally crappy call. With the NBA already have an issue with refs on the take, they can't have something like this. You can't overturn a call WITHOUT INDISUPUTABL EVIDENCE, which were none shown in the replays. The Bulls better and I mean BETTER be protesting the call.
The NBA wanted George Karl to move into 8th all time in wins thats how they overturn that bulls hit call.
Absolute Bull-oney (sorry)! How do you overturn the original call based on those replays? Those refs were terrible all game making odd calls (5 seconds? really?), missed calls (Deng was tripped!), and just plain wrong calls (they missed Billups getting mauled at the end, D. Rose clearly blocked the ball off the backboard, etc., etc....).
BULLS-HIT