{"id":373395,"date":"2024-03-06T15:42:29","date_gmt":"2024-03-06T16:42:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=373395"},"modified":"2024-03-06T17:02:09","modified_gmt":"2024-03-06T17:02:09","slug":"watch-controversial-ending-to-a-new-jersey-state-playoff-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=373395","title":{"rendered":"Watch: Controversial ending to a New Jersey state playoff game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The internet is rarely united on anything these days. But social media is almost universally united about an official&#8217;s call in a New Jersey high school playoff game.<\/p>\n<p>Officials waved off what appeared to be the winning basket on Tuesday night in what would become Camden&#8217;s (Camden, New Jersey) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/sports\/other\/refs-reverse-call-strip-manasquan-boys-basketball-of-last-second-upset-of-camden\/ar-BB1jlZR1\">46-45 win over Manasquan<\/a> (Manasquan, New Jersey).<\/p>\n<p>Junior forward Griffin Linstra of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.maxpreps.com\/nj\/manasquan\/manasquan-warriors\/basketball\/schedule\/\">Manasquan<\/a> seems to have put back a shot before the final buzzer for what should have been a win for the Warriors.<\/p>\n<p>In the last seconds of the game, Manasquan went the distance of the court with Linstra collecting a rebound off of a teammate&#8217;s missed jump shot. The forward&#8217;s shot left his fingertips before the buzzer signaled the end of the game.<\/p>\n<p>Manasquan&#8217;s celebrations were short-lived. After a delay that included the officials huddling to discuss the call, the apparent game-winning shot was waved off.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.maxpreps.com\/nj\/camden\/camden-panthers\/basketball\/roster\/\">Camden<\/a> won, even as the video seems to indicate that the shot from Linstra was put up before the buzzer.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-media-max-width=\"560\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\"><img src=\"https:\/\/s.w.org\/images\/core\/emoji\/14.0.0\/72x72\/1f6a8.png\" alt=\"\ud83d\udea8\" class=\"wp-smiley\" style=\"height: 1em;max-height: 1em\" \/>Controversy in NJ State Boys Semifinal<img src=\"https:\/\/s.w.org\/images\/core\/emoji\/14.0.0\/72x72\/1f6a8.png\" alt=\"\ud83d\udea8\" class=\"wp-smiley\" style=\"height: 1em;max-height: 1em\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Camden&#8217;s Alijah Curry makes 2 FTs to give the Panthers a 46-45 lead. Manasquan&#8217;s Griffin Linstra appears to beat the buzzer for a Warriors win &#8211; but the officials WAVE OFF THE SHOT.<\/p>\n<p>Camden moves on to the Group 2 state finals.\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ArYuE48tbM\">pic.twitter.com\/ArYuE48tbM<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jersey Sports Zone (@JSZ_Sports) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JSZ_Sports\/status\/1765207592291201440?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 6, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>With the win, Camden advances in the state playoffs. The school is perenially one of the top programs in New Jersey and is often nationally ranked.<\/p>\n<p>The game was played at Central Regional High School in Bayville, New Jersey.<\/p>\n<p>Fantastic video and context from <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JSZ_Sports\">Jersey Sports Zone<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>New Jersey high school basketball game ends in controversy.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":286601,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373395"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=373395"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":373397,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373395\/revisions\/373397"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/286601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=373395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=373395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=373395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}