NBA Crew Chief Scott Foster spoke to a pool reporter following the Houston Rockets 109-106 win over the New York Knicks on Nov. 14 at Madison Square Garden. The pool reporter’s inquiry was focused on a call with five seconds remaining in which the officials ruled that Carmelo Anthony was not in the act of shooting when he was fouled. Below is the transcript:

(Explanation of continuation rule)
Foster: There’s nothing in the rule book – and there’s 14 triggers – that allows us to review that for continuation. The only thing we can review is whether it’s a two or a three if we’d allowed it to be a made basket.

Q: How it worked?
Foster: Houston informs us before the play they are going to take a foul. The initial contact is way before what probably everybody else thinks. It’s a push, a slap and then another slap but we’ve already called the foul on the initial contact. Now he turns and throws it up. It’s not able to be scored that way.

Q: Was it close?
Foster: It was a tough call but last year we put a new rule in for these situations and how we go about them. The initial contact was before he started to turn, while his back is to the basket, and then he flings it up.

Q: Clock is irrelevant?
Foster: It would never be reviewable. Continuation is never reviewable unless it’s a foul away from the ball, which is a new rule this year.