Bulls coach Dick Motta and GM Pat Williams immediately got in Rakel's face. Despite both of them pointing right to the clock on the scoreboard, which showed one second left, and timekeeper Jim Serry flat-out telling Rakel he didn't touch the clock or buzzer, and further proving this by flipping the switch to run the clock to zero and allowing the buzzer to sound while the press corps watched him do it, Rakel (and an unnamed officiating partner of his, who deferred to him despite later admitting he didn't hear the buzzer sound either) refused to budge from his ruling and walked off the court declaring the game over and Atlanta the winners.