jehosafats wrote:cgf wrote:jehosafats wrote:I'm not fan of either of these teams, but I can say I've seen several instances where the refs swallowed their whistles on egregious, plain as day fouls, sometimes at the rim, other times in the open floor, specifically when the Pacers had the ball.
In game 2, the refs let Hart push Halliburton as he was dribbling from behind. They let him full on push the ballhandler who wasn't facing him from behind. He could've face-planted and got injured. When they didn't call that or a blatant strike on the wrist as Nesmith drove to the basket shortly afterwards, that made me stop and question what was happening with the officiating. The late game officiating SNAFUS in Game 1, which drove all the momentum to the Knicks, suggests there is some there there.
So I pulled this play up on leaguepass (1:03:09) and though it could easily be called a foul...and probably would've been were this a regular season game...you're over dramatizing what happened. Haliburton wasn't thrown to the ground and almost injured. He didn't even lose his dribble.
Hart causes Haliburton to stumble as he goes out towards the wing/corner and there's enough extension to call a foul, but the Pacers retain the ball, run their offense and then get stuffed by OG, sparking a fast break the other way. This crew let plenty of stuff like that go in this game against both teams.
When was this Nesmith foul supposed to have occurred? Are you talking about Anunoby's block?
That was the play. I don't feel as though I made it more dramatic than it was, but you can see how that was an easy call they somehow missed.
In terms of the Nesmith, the block was practically all wrist. You can see it on the replay. Them missing that is somewhat understandable. But the push with the extension, and no call, did make me question the officiating.
Saying he could've face-planted and gotten injured was what felt over-dramatic to me. I mean he could've, if he were an 140lb HSer, but no professional athlete is going to getting injured from that bump...though I agree it could've been called where this a regular season game.
But this was the same crew that worked the rockfight between the Nuggets & Wolves in game 2. They think playoff basketball is supposed to look like playoff hockey and I don't think anyone broke it to them that hand checking is now a foul. So they swallowed their whistles a lot both ways.
They show a replay of that Nesmith noncall that you're talking about at 1:04:10 on Leaguepass. If you slow it down, both of the angles they show look like OG makes contact with the ball first, and then...after his fingers have already hit the ball...their wrists bang together. So that was a correct noncall, and would've been even in the regular season.
Although that was really bang-bang and you have to go frame by frame to clearly see whether OG gets the ball first or their wrists connect first. But that second replay they show makes it pretty clear that OG's hand starts to bend back when his fingers hit the ball and then the wrists touch.
Though I may be biased
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