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  • Videos: Chicks dig the long ball: Marcus Camby and Paul George connect from way downtown

Videos: Chicks dig the long ball: Marcus Camby and Paul George connect from way downtown

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Published March 27, 2012 at 8:45 AM
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On one hand, I get it, referees. The rules of the NBA clearly state that field goals attempted after time expires cannot be counted if made. Since the ball wasn't out of Marcus Camby's hand before the end of the third quarter of the Houston Rockets' matchup with the Sacramento Kings on Monday night, the basket has to be waved off, because the law is the law, and if we don't abide by it, there'll be anarchy. Fair enough. On the other, though, Camby has made 16 three-pointers in more than 15 years as an NBA player, and he just found paydirt on what looked to be about an 85-footer. In situations like that, you should be able to give him at least one point, and perhaps even 1.5 points. It'd be the charitable thing to do, I think, especially in this season of giving (wait, it's not December? Lousy Smarch weather in Brooklyn ). Even one or 1.5 points on Camby's near-length-of-the-court baseball pass (no crow hop; that'd be traveling) might have meant the difference in helping his Rockets put away the Kings in regulation rather than having to sweat out a 113-106 overtime win . Luckily, Camby was able to rely on a balanced scoring effort (seven Rockets hit double-figures), a dynamite game...

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