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The history of German basketball at that time depended on the thickness of a millimeter or the fingertips of Wade Baldwin.
At the time of Bayern’s victory on Thursday night, no German team had reached the quarter-finals in the entire history of the Euroleague.
On the penultimate round of the Euroleague regular season, the Munich basketball players beat Žalgiris by 71:70 and secured a berth to the playoffs after reaching 20 victories.
Kaunas Club, which had previously lost its chances of getting there, placed 11th and came very close to victory.
When Bayern leader Wade Baldwin led 70:69 under Žalgiris’ lead, preparing for the last attack after the exchange, he found himself no longer against Thomas Walkup, but against N. Hayes, an equally reliable Žalgiris defense specialist .
Already in the exchange, the foul of the Munich team veteran James Gist could be seen: the American, like a jumped wall, became an obstacle for Th.Walkup, who lost his balance on his feet.
“That barrier even made me more suspicious and turned out to be more noticeable than the rear barrier,” said Kęstutis Pilipauskas, director of the Lithuanian Basketball Referees Association, reviewing the final seconds again on Friday. – Mobile barrier, Gistas ran on Walkup – it was an illegal contact. It was logical to attribute the offense to Gist.
Apparently, the referee followed the situation with the ball more, which is normal, and the peripheral vision no longer saw the wrong barrier. However, your colleague might have noticed.
However, the second unfavorable decision by the judges came to Žalgiris in the same second. “
When Th.Walkup fell, N. Hayes took his place, instinctively trying to steal the ball from W. Baldwin 3 seconds before play and the ball flew over the edge.
The first decision of the referee in this situation – the ball touched the last Waldaldwin.
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Žalgiris’ team got up with joy, as they could only hold the lead in the final seconds, and the Bayern leader danced excitedly to protest, showing that the last touch of the ball was N. Hayes.
The referees decided to review the controversial moment of the video and did so several times while the basketball players waited for a decision after catching their breath.
Not only did the moment seem very slippery to them.
15 minutes Several senior Lithuanian referees interviewed said that the situation did not seem clear when turning the screen.
“It’s hard to say, at first it seemed to me that the ball had flown over the edge from Žalgiris, that N. Hayes had knocked it out,” said K. Pilipauskas. “From another angle, it turned out that the ball could have touched Bayern’s finger.”
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K. Pilipauskas and other referees highlighted another important aspect, which is followed by the judges.
“The initial decision was to give the ball to Žalgiris and according to the rules, after reviewing the video, the referee can change the decision only if the initial decision is incorrect.
The fact that after reviewing the video they changed the decision should have meant that they saw that W. Baldwin did not touch the ball last, K. Pilipauskas noted. – There must be obvious evidence that this Žalgiris touched the ball last.
If there was any doubt, the original solution would be left. If it has changed, the doubts have been dispelled. “
Eriko Ovčarenko / 15min nootr./Kęstutis Pilipauskas
Could the judges in Munich have seen more than the spectators?
N. Hayeso’s attempt to intercept the ball seemed so unclear that one of the Lithuanian referees watching the game on screen, not wanting to comment on the decision of his teammates in Munich for work ethic, admitted that he could not determine the 100 percent of who the ball came out of.
In this case, according to the minutes of the judges, it is as if the original decision was left.
However, K. Pilipauskas believes that the judges in the German arena should have seen more than he or other spectators.
Euroleague referee Jurgis Laurinavičius confirmed that the judges working in the match have a certain advantage.
He himself said that he had not seen the last game of “Žalgiris” because he traveled from the game in Monaco, but explained something else important.
“The Euroleague matches are filmed with eight cameras. Not all of them show the required episode, so the most comfortable images are selected from several cameras, although sometimes there are situations where they do not capture a good angle of visibility, said J Laurinavičius – The spectators had to see the same angles as the judges, the same planes and attractive angles.
However, the fact is that the image is brighter in the sand of the monitor. There, the image is of better quality. “
Getty Images / Euroleague.net nuotr./Jurgis Laurinavičius
According to K. Pilipauskas, this could have determined the decision of the judges.
“They were looking for a long time because it was a matter of a millimeter. If they changed the decision, then they saw it, ”said a specialist who had worked in the highest level competitions for many years.
Conspiracy Theory Possible?
Faced with such acute episodes, could other actions lead to a solution?
For example, basketball coach Mindaugas Brazys on the LRT program felt that perhaps the referees made the decision based on N. Hayes clearly predictable intentions to shoot the ball.
A 15 minutes The referees said that in difficult cases it is also seen in the direction of the ball; in this case, it flew where it was struck by the hand of N. Hayes.
On the other hand, K. Pillipauskas emphasized that the interpretations cannot obscure the fact during the decisive moments of the match.
He recalled that in the middle of a game, when the referees cannot see this type of episode, perhaps it can be judged by the logic of the direction of movement and the direction of the ball. However, in the last 2 minutes of the match, the indicator is one: whoever touched the ball last, has since run to the edge.
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Ilija Beloševičius, Saso Petekas and Carlos Cortes judged the match in Munich.
According to K. Pilipauskas, I. Beloševičius is the most experienced of them. The Serbian was the main referee of the match, who called a meeting, after which the original decision of the Spanish C. Cortés was modified.
Would it be realistic to think of a conspiracy theory that the judges’ decision could have been influenced by the historic opportunity of a German club and, at the same time, the advancement of an economically very strong country in the Euroleague?
K. Pilipauskas shook his head. “Even if we put aside the idea that the Munich club was looking for victory, then nobody would wait for the last seconds, during which it is impossible to predict: will there be bangs or not? – The former judge spoke. “I don’t want to believe that, but if there was a willingness to help a club from the outside, it probably wouldn’t wait for the last seconds.”
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More important actions took place in the final seconds, ultimately leading to the historic victory of the German club.
In Bayern’s last attack, Joffrey Lavergne fouled Vladimir Lučič, who attacked from the wing.
When the Bayern leaders took both penalties and weighted the score again, Žalgiris still had two seconds to make the final attack after a minute break by Martin Schiller.
When the combination got stuck, J. Lavergne, who received the ball, tried to salvage the situation, but his attempt to attack from long range was blocked by V. Lučičius.
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