hes going for the ball. unless he grabs and pushes someone out of the way, he's absolutely allowed to dive for the loose ball. that literally is not the definition. its funny how some people think any type of contact is some sort of foul. if he just straight dives into his legs w/o any intention of going for the ball thats a different story. but obviously not the case here
I would have lost us the game if I was on the team or coaching. If I was on the sideline, GSW would have been shooting 2 technical free throws after that ****.
They did not miss it........Just did not call it. It is fairly blatant that the NBA takes care of the Warriors to promote Curry.
This is genuinely the worst call I’ve ever seen in any sport on any level. It would honestly make more sense if they came out and just admitted they had skin in the game rather than admit what it obviously was which was pure incompetence. This is a really bad look for refs and the nba in general. That’s an inexcusable, completely fireable, missed call. I’m sure nothing will actually happen and the league will just move on like it never happened but this should have been a loss for us more often than not after curry makes that shot. Nba was bailed out by the current mvp but that doesn’t excuse the brutalness of that blatant missed call. Inexcusable.
I’ve seen nothing of this missed call on espn or anywhere on the net. If this was the other way around you bet you’d see it everywhere
I don't mean it as hyperbole at all when I say, I think that call last night was the most blatantly wrong call by an official in any pro sports game I can remember seeing before. It wasn't a toe on the line...or one foot halfway over...it was two feet completely out of bounds by a more than noticeable margin. That's incredibly bad.
I think it's because the focus is on Harden. ESPN showed it clearly this morning on Get Up...but they didn't harp on it because Harden was a badass and the Rockets won the game. Had they not won that game, I think you'd see people across sports media talking about it way more.
I think it's because the focus is on Harden. ESPN showed it clearly this morning on Get Up...but they didn't harp on it because Harden was a badass and the Rockets won the game. Had they not won that game, I think you'd see people across sports media talking about it way more.
That's true. If we lost the game, it would have been talked about a lot more. Harden bailed them out. I don't think the call itself was part of a conspiracy. I mean, who would be so stupid to do something so obvious intentionally? It has to be simple incompetence. If they wanted to fix the game, an offensive foul call on Harden on the other play would have been much easier to justify.
This is a sobering reminder of the herculean effort it is going to take to dethrone the Warriors. Team is good enough on its own but there's just no way the help they get from the refs every night is coincidental. Draymond plays by an entire different set of rules. If the L2M report extends into OT it is going to look like a 10-page pamphlet. There's undoubtedly bias for the Warriors, but with performances like Harden's last night we CAN win.
No one's gonna talk about it. NBA: Sorry, we just missed it. We'll try to be better next time. Media: Rockets won so it doesn't matter. (And had the Rockets lost: "Well they had their chances down the stretch. They could not buy a bucket. This one call (or non-call) didn't change the game.")
You guys are wrong. I looked up the rules and they clearly say Durant's save was legit. 1) "The ball is out of play when it has wholly crossed the goal line or touch line whether on the ground or in the air" 2) "If a player accidentally crosses one of the boundary lines of the field of play, he is not deemed to have committed an infringement. Going off the field of play may be considered to be part of a playing movement." https://img.fifa.com/image/upload/datdz0pms85gbnqy4j3k.pdf
Saw roughly 10 min discussion on it during the Dan Patrick Show. Plenty of tweets from SI, ESPN, other national sources. It would be worse if the Rockets lost and I'm fine with the discussion being focused on Harden's badassery. But the whining about "no one's talking about it" just isn't true.
That was not a "missed call", it was an atrocity that should be punished severely. There is no possible explanation for what happened. The referees (Maddox, Goble and Brown) should be investigated and suspended. I've never seen anything like this before.
