‘Anyone got a sundial?’ Bizarre scenes as NBL game forced to continue without shot clock

A digital camera educated on a laptop computer was floated as an unlikely hero because the NBL’s spherical 10 conflict between Cairns and the Kings floor to a halt on Thursday.

But a gents’s settlement between the groups to play with no shot clock has gained out in a unprecedented evening within the NBL.

The shot clocks at each ends went out because the groups accomplished their warm-up forward of the second half, with crews working frantically to handle the difficulty.

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The stoppage lasted 50 minutes earlier than play resumed.

Teams remained on courtroom, with gamers from opposing sides seen chatting courtside, although the vast majority of gamers had been placing up photographs.

The longer the stoppage went, the less remained, as officers scrambled for an answer.

NBL CEO Dave Stephenson, who was on the recreation with NBA scouts, addressed the difficulty on the printed, revealing how a clock on a laptop computer would turn out to be the saviour of the primary recreation of the DC Multiverse Round.

“We’ve had a whole lot of power challenges tonight, looks like a circuit breaker is gone, so they’re working their way through it,” he mentioned on the ESPN broadcast on Foxtel.

“We’ve got an innovative model.

“We’re trying to put a camera on a laptop screen which will give a shot clock and a timer, and get that up on the big (screen), then at least the players will know how much time is left.

“We’ll work our way through it, I think we’ll be fine, but it’s part of the joys of live sport.

“They’re professionals, they’ll come back, it will get through the second half and it will all be fine.”

That resolution was not finally wanted, as each groups agreed to play on with no shot clock.

The two-time defending champion Kings lead 48-37 on the break, with the Taipans slowly working their means again into the competition.

The Kings romped to a 33-15 lead by the top of the primary quarter, as poor taking pictures by Cairns – a measly 33 per cent from the sphere, together with 0-from-12 from three – bringing the offence to a standstill.

Kings coach Mahmoud Abdelfattah mentioned it was a career-first.

“I’ve never been a part of anything like this, but we just have to go with the flow,” Abdelfattah mentioned.