JonFromVA wrote:jbk1234 wrote:JonFromVA wrote:
Like I said, once the defender successfully gets his hands on the ball, refs will often just swallow their whistle and let things play out even to the point of a scrum or scramble on the floor.
It's also likely no ref was able to see both angles, just like we're only looking at one angle; but the broadcast did capture the other angle and it's disingenuous really for anyone to talk about the play without showing all the angles available.
There are three officials looking at the court from three angles for a reason. Garland was dragged down to the court, back first, with the ball still in his hands, and no defenders hands on it. Someone saw that.
The refs can't combine all their views of a play in time synchronization like a video editor, they will usually defer to the refs who they think had the best angle.
Apparently that ref saw Green getting his hands on the ball, Garland twisting and wrenching the ball out of his hands, then tripping over his knee. Looks like Mitchell actually called the timeout about a second after Garland was tripped.
Anyone with a decent amount of objectivity would say this is a fair and reasonable explanation for what happened.
If it were the other way around Cavs fan would be saying the same exact things Mavs fans said about the play. Could have been a travel or jumpball......cnc