Hoops

Did the Sixers actually beat Brisbane?

Yogee, did Marc Howard give any evidence to back up why the boxscores and results are correct? I have had enquiries with him in the past where all he does is agree with what's already happened and never gives any specifics. When I have argued about it, his final reply is that we will have to agree to disagree. This sort of response does not bring the truth out. If the boxscores are so correct, why does it show Rychart with 23 and Forman 7 when Boti also presumably gets his information from the same boxscores and he reports them as 25 for Rychart and 5 for Forman. The truth of the matter may well be that they are not sure what happened and have fudged the figures to make them add up. I wouldn't bet money on this, however a proper investigation and explanation is warranted here.

sc, there was not an additional 2 points to Forman at the end of the game, it merely repeated the listing in the 6.02 sec 3rd quarter time. Same with Matthews at the 3.49 sec. 2 points were not actually added to the score, it remained at 91-92 Brisbane way. If we're talking about the same 2 listings after the game finished, then neither Matthews or Forman's scores increased by 2.

I'm not convinced sc. For starters, there is still no quarter by quarter scores on the boxscores. That in itself is suspicious. It also appears to me that the way the live scoreboard works is that it only adds but not subtracts, however at the end of the game it will show where discrepancies lie. In this case it brought up the 6.02 min 3rd quarter error against Forman and the 3.49 min 3rd quarter error against Matthews. It did not mention Rychart. It seems neither Rychart nor Forman were given those 2 points remembering that the total players scores came to 95 and I still believe only 2 points had to come off. Also making an error between Rychart and Forman is not an excuse because they look alike from a distance. The scores are attributed to a player by his singlet number.

Another point I'd like to make is also that at the 6.02 min 3rd quarter mark showed a Farley assist in between Forman's & Rychart's basket. It quite clearly tells me that all this could not have happend at the same time and it is therefore possible that both those baskets were not made at the same time but an oversight at the time and picked up at a later time, i.e. when the next basket was made. It was just entered on the scoreboard at the same time.

Anonymous, we are talking about a discrepancy involving 4 points not 2. Phil or Steve may have been watching the scoreboard closely in the last few minutes when the score was close but when the error appears to have occured halfway in the 3rd quarter, the score was 62-47 in Adelaide's favour. I think it would not have been as critical to watch the scoreboard then.

Very dodgy when the quarter scores are suddenly not listed, but are for all the other games.

Bet you nothing comes of it though.

Correction above to last sentence, where Oscar mentioned the 6.02 secs.............should read where Isaac mentioned the 6.02 secs..........

The final scoreboard showed Brisbane 92 - Adelaide 91. The total of all the player's scores on that same scoreboard actually came to 94 Brisbane - 95 Adelaide. Checking the play-by-play section, Matthews had 10 points and not 12 and all other Brisbane player's scores matched, therefore 92 to Brisbane is confirmed. However, it was a different situation with Adelaide. The total of the player's individual scores came to 95. When checking all the Adelaide players scores in the play-by-play section, Forman only had 7 points and not 9. This gave Adelaide a total of 93. Where Oscar mentioned the 6.02 second time in the 3rd quarter where both Forman and Rychart scored, it seems neither of those scores counted.