As someone who’s played for years, has been a paid ref, and did not watch this game or has any stake in it, sorry bro, not a foul. The dude was unbalanced when he took the shot and he tried to lean into the player in the air to force the contact.
It’s mitigating people’s anger. Turns out if you just say “oops, we messed up” it turns out the percentage of people throwing a drink at you the next game drops drastically.
there are a lot of fouls that happen on shot attempts that have no impact on the shot itself and which I actually think should not be shooting fouls. this foul is literally why the ball went nowhere near the basket!
It was Tim Hardaway Jr. Definitely the most likely to shoot it towards the basket and it end up there without contact 😂. However, it's a foul every time.
in a game where the refs swallowed the whistle, and the detroit fans were screaming about foul baiting while they smacked the knicks up on every drive, you want to cry about a non-call? sure, jan.
Agree. That should have been a foul BUT as the previous commenter commented, the refs swallowed the whistle all game (with the exception of Towns). Was this decisive? Sure. But in a game this close every missed call (and there were a lot) was decisive.
was there contact? yes. that being said I don't see hart breaking the shooters vertical plane.. his attempt to draw contact is what made that awkward. if he focuses on making the basket, in a normal range of motion, he would've been better off. the triple pump kick out failed him
I responded to the original take, of him saying "the foul" was y "the ball ended up nowhere near the basket." it wasn't y. shooter was grazed. but chose to quadruple pump kick his legs to try & draw the foul. u responded to the 2nd part of me saying if he shoots a regular shot, maybe he gets a call?
only looking at the clip, & responding to ur statement, I would say the ball went nowhere near the basket because he tried to bait the foul, which caused him to attempt something other than a natural shooting motion.
Not the only foul on the play or the only foul not called during the game, but clearly the only non-call which mattered in the 48 minutes of jailhouse rules basketball which was played, I guess. 🤷♂️
Total foul, but every playoff game is being called as if it was a 1980's NBA playoff game. As a fan I hate seeing elite players getting beat on in order to make up the difference in talent.
The NBA is tough to watch. Allowing players to travel and carry the ball has changed the game. The refereeing is very strange. The "Let 'em play" idea means the referee is deciding what foul is too much instead of the rule book. The non calls and mauling have hurt this most beautiful of sports.
i thought the director was lining it up to be hardaway heroics for a win. a good story line, at least visually (i watch it muted). hardaway kinda kicked out toward hart there, may have factored in the no call.
No fouls on the Knicks in the 3rd quarter either. Just because it was the last shot of the game doesn't make it special. The game was called consistently, neither team got a whistle
EXACTLY THIS. If you don't call Harris for effing mauling Josh Hart and knocking the ball free on the rebound you damn well can't call the much less egregious foul on the shot
Although I agree, this is probably the most obvious foul possible. Multiple fouls, bumping the shooter, hitting the shooter, and crowding their landing space. As far as non-calls go at the end of the game, it happened in front of the ref. Really egregious.
This was a consistently called game in that refs let a lot of contact go as incidental. I thought for sure someone would get seriously hurt (Brunson could have been), or there would be a fight (Towns/Harris). That said, Detroit blew this game with late turnovers and poor shooting.
Anyone else see Hardaway slightly lean into Hart to sell the contact but it makes the shot weird and doesn’t quite work? I feel he had a clean shot going straight up and then kick the feet out to get a foul like all the rest do…Fun game if you don’t think of the officiating 🤡
For real, people complaining about the call only saw the gif of the last shot and didn't see the third quarter when a whole ass football game broke out. Or they're Pistons homers.
Like all inferior teams, Detroit decided their best chance was beat the crap out of Jalen Brunson. And you are now complaining about a marginal call? Come on. Grow up.
Jalen Brunson is a known flopper and foul baiter. Didn’t you see the guys on inside the nba saying it was bs? You saw the ref came out after and admitted th er fucked up?
Because they have been letting all the fouls the Pistons did since the 3rd quarter to not be called and ticky tack fouls against the Knicks to get called.
Pistons riding Brunson fouling him every step he is dribbling and Towns gets hit with no fouls called.
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It was a scrappy game all the way through though. They barely called whistles on hard fouls all game
Bad officiating happens.
Zebras are human. 🤷🏻♂️
Inconsistent officiating, however, is a choice, and arguably worse for the game.
Objectivity, grandpa. Try it out.
Pistons riding Brunson fouling him every step he is dribbling and Towns gets hit with no fouls called.
Brunson was clutch
Not losing a game
on some
“Look what I found type of lucky bounce”
on my massive tv i saw the refs swallow the whistle from 3rd quarter until the end
Brunson was clutch
Not losing a game
on some
“Look what I found
type of lucky bounce”
Where on earth has this possibly happened before?
The ref has his hand in the air, is that just for the '3'?