More on the Siglap - Sin Kee Fiasco
This evening, all those involved had a meeting with BAS. Again. Because Sin Kee wrote in to appeal against the decision.
Poor Sin Kee. There's a good chance they would have won the game even if they had accepted the decision on the day itself. Now, they're almost certain to be in the relegation playoffs. There're many versions of what happened that day, which is a fact the reporter failed to highlight. The reporter also failed to do some basic research on the latest basketball rules. There's little you can't do with Google really.
The local refs are pissed off. Regardless of whether the table officals were negligent, you don't cancel a foul and rewind the clock. The situation does not satisfy one of the four conditions for the error to be correctable. Mr JG should have known better, as should have Mr Technical Commissioner. This has nothing to do with the facts that the former did not see the incident (actual sequence of events: request of timeout, administration of free throws) occur and the latter was sleeping (yes, literally).
Refs from all over the world (I kid you not) have phoned in to ask (and laugh merrily) at the joke. Mr JG's colleagues are baying for his blood and secretly hoping Mr Commissioner will be replaced at the next BAS election.
Accidents happen. Errors aren't corrected with errors. Negative begetting negative only happens in Mathematics.
Speaking of referees, there is talk that from next year onwards, only those who pass the physical fitness test will get to officiate. It's unbelievably simple but lots of refs are going to get weeded out. 86 laps for males, 66 for females in the beep test, i.e. level 10 - 2 shuttles and level 8 - 4 shuttles, respectively. If you're a man and you can't run 2 km in 10 minutes, you don't call yourself an athlete. And it's clearly stated in the FIBA referees' manual - You are also an athlete.
Poor Sin Kee. There's a good chance they would have won the game even if they had accepted the decision on the day itself. Now, they're almost certain to be in the relegation playoffs. There're many versions of what happened that day, which is a fact the reporter failed to highlight. The reporter also failed to do some basic research on the latest basketball rules. There's little you can't do with Google really.
The local refs are pissed off. Regardless of whether the table officals were negligent, you don't cancel a foul and rewind the clock. The situation does not satisfy one of the four conditions for the error to be correctable. Mr JG should have known better, as should have Mr Technical Commissioner. This has nothing to do with the facts that the former did not see the incident (actual sequence of events: request of timeout, administration of free throws) occur and the latter was sleeping (yes, literally).
Refs from all over the world (I kid you not) have phoned in to ask (and laugh merrily) at the joke. Mr JG's colleagues are baying for his blood and secretly hoping Mr Commissioner will be replaced at the next BAS election.
Accidents happen. Errors aren't corrected with errors. Negative begetting negative only happens in Mathematics.
Speaking of referees, there is talk that from next year onwards, only those who pass the physical fitness test will get to officiate. It's unbelievably simple but lots of refs are going to get weeded out. 86 laps for males, 66 for females in the beep test, i.e. level 10 - 2 shuttles and level 8 - 4 shuttles, respectively. If you're a man and you can't run 2 km in 10 minutes, you don't call yourself an athlete. And it's clearly stated in the FIBA referees' manual - You are also an athlete.
posted by :O at 7:15 AM
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