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Ah the refs did us in
https://www.twitter.com/kimdoss71/status...54370?s=21

It was a 50-50 call as to whether the player who was credited with the final shot was out of bounds when she received the rebound.  The live view is not clearly definitive as to whether she was still out of bounds when she touched the ball.  She was definitely out of bounds when the ball was 3' from her hands.  When the ball touched her hand, her heel is over the out of bounds line (doesn't matter), but it is unclear if the ball of her foot was still down.

If you want to analyze, the questions are when she touched the ball and when her right foot left the floor. 

• She is in the process of stepping toward the point at which she touches the ball.  Her weight is originally on the right foot (on the end line) and is transitioning to the left foot.  I see her as rotating her right foot into her body's line immediately before lifting it (try doing that AFTER lifting it!).
  

• Gravity will cause the ball to accelerate downward.  Any frame in which the downward smear is less than the previous frame means that ball was touched between the start of the previous frame to the end of the current frame. Zero or little smear would mean that the ball was touched before the start of the current frame.
  

I see the rotation of the foot coming at the frame after the ball smear disappears.  I would say that the ball of her foot was still on the out-of-bounds line when she touched the ball.

While I believe the officials blew this call, if it could have been reviewed (it can't), whichever call it was would not have been overturned.

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Relevant rules:  "A player shall be out of bounds when they touch the floor or any object other than a person on or outside a boundary line." "The ball shall be out of bounds when it touches a player who is out of bounds"  Her left foot is down, so she is not airborne.

There is a question in my mind whether they can review the player as being out-of-bounds unless they actually make the call as out-of-bounds.
In the last 2 minutes of the 4Q or overtime, they can review to "Determine which team caused the ball to be out of bounds, provided a ruling of an out-of-bounds violation was made by the officials".

I would suggest that the rules committee add a potentially missed out-of-bounds call to the cases in which a coach may appeal for a replay.
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Darn. I have a 619KB movie of the 4 seconds around that questionable call, but the Cardboard STILL doesn't allow attachments.

[M T]

Ah the refs did us in
https://www.twitter.com/kimdoss71/status...54370?s=21

It was a 50-50 call as to whether the player who was credited with the final shot was out of bounds when she received the rebound.  The live view is not clearly definitive as to whether she was still out of bounds when she touched the ball.  She was definitely out of bounds when the ball was 3' from her hands.  When the ball touched her hand, her heel is over the out of bounds line (doesn't matter), but it is unclear if the ball of her foot was still down.

If you want to analyze, the questions are when she touched the ball and when her right foot left the floor. 

• She is in the process of stepping toward the point at which she touches the ball.  Her weight is originally on the right foot (on the end line) and is transitioning to the left foot.  I see her as rotating her right foot into her body's line immediately before lifting it (try doing that AFTER lifting it!).
  

• Gravity will cause the ball to accelerate downward.  Any frame in which the downward smear is less than the previous frame means that ball was touched between the start of the previous frame to the end of the current frame. Zero or little smear would mean that the ball was touched before the start of the current frame.
  

I see the rotation of the foot coming at the frame after the ball smear disappears.  I would say that the ball of her foot was still on the out-of-bounds line when she touched the ball.

While I believe the officials blew this call, if it could have been reviewed (it can't), whichever call it was would not have been overturned.

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Relevant rules:  "A player shall be out of bounds when they touch the floor or any object other than a person on or outside a boundary line." "The ball shall be out of bounds when it touches a player who is out of bounds"  Her left foot is down, so she is not airborne.

There is a question in my mind whether they can review the player as being out-of-bounds unless they actually make the call as out-of-bounds.
In the last 2 minutes of the 4Q or overtime, they can review to "Determine which team caused the ball to be out of bounds, provided a ruling of an out-of-bounds violation was made by the officials".

I would suggest that the rules committee add a potentially missed out-of-bounds call to the cases in which a coach may appeal for a replay.
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Darn. I have a 619KB movie of the 4 seconds around that questionable call, but the Cardboard STILL doesn't allow attachments.