Not sure if you heard about this one (shouts to BDL), but apparently the Atlanta Hawks are having trouble keeping their scorekeeping crew on task.
In Sunday's game against the Cleveland Cavaliers, Delonte West was credited with a fourth personal foul towards the end of the third quarter, prompting Mike Brown to remove him from the game.
The problem?
West only had three fouls at the time. Brown, in finding out this news, plans on filing a complaint, and I for one can't blame him.
Kelly Dwyer in the linked article makes the point that removing guys regardless of situation because of "foul trouble" (which he argues West wasn't really even in considering time of game---and he's right) is just down right pointless. To those points, I say, well done Mr. Dwyer.
However, what I can't seem to figure is how they make that sort of mistake. It's not like in Atlanta there's just one guy running the scoreboard, and keeping the book, like it's some sort of 7th and 8th grade mixed rec league. They've got a whole team of people over there that should be keeping track of things, like say, personal fouls.
And, this isn't the first time this has happened. Remember that game that the Heat were allowed to finish against the Hawks last season, those last 52 seconds? The reason was because the Hawks crack squad had fouled Shaquille O'Neal out of the game with 51.9 seconds remaining, when he actually only had 5 fouls. Kudos.
It really shouldn't happen at all, but twice? Come on, how hard is it to keep track of fouls?
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