Saw the caught rebound when time expired by Rondo and didn't know if he was going to get credit for a rebound or not considering I wasn't entirely sure when he caught the ball. Went to bed after that and was glad to see they did give him the credit for the rebound.
Sidebar: there was a play earlier in the game where Shaq caught an airball that Big Baby had heaved up to beat the 24 second clock. To the naked eye, I could not discern if Shaq caught it before or after the buzzer. I was wondering if, in a scenario like that, there is a question about the timing, if the official scorer would go back and check. Either way it was a 24 second violation, so it had no effect from the ref's perspective. I've heard there's an awful lot of gray area with the stats. Wondering if that's a situation where they would just give Shaq a rebound for the heck of it.
Sure seems that way, particularly with assists. Not sure which one it was (15th I think) where Rondo passed to baby at the free throw line, baby paused, contemplated driving to the hoop but then pulled and hit the jumper. I didn't think that would count as an assist since a few seconds had passed between the pass and the shot but then Gorman said Rondo just got his 15th(?) assist. I always thought the pass had to lead immediately to a basket to be recorded as an assist.
And please no one read this the wrong way. That was a great performance by Rondo.
