Just because we almost lost by 5 and may have missed out on 6FTs doesn't mean the game would've turned out the same way anyways. Sure, refs missed opportunities, but there's no way to know the chain of events past the 1st missed call. I believe it would've been even closer, sure, but we were having SO...so much trouble scoring in that quarter that I don't know if I believe we would've come out on top. OKC definitely would have had less momentum tho, and in a 2pt loss (or 5pt...haha wtvr) momentum means a lot, especially when all that momentum was swinging 100% OKC's way. We should've won that game. We had the good lead and we couldn't score anymore. We lost it, but the refs definitely helped.
just to be clear again: We only missed out on 1 free throw. Not 6. The two Def 3 sec were the same play. Refs can only call one of those. The two fouls were non-shooting fouls on the floor, and we weren't in the penalty. The one on Capela, you *really* don't want Capela shooting FTs down by 3 with 7 seconds left, anyhow. That actually would have been a correct (and coached) foul by WB had we been in the penalty.
Yeah, but after a technical you can set up the offense again... we really needed that, as we were scrambling to attack... So who knows if after that technical we still did not score?
I definitely agree. See my first post in this thread. I said the missed technicals were huge. At that point, I thought they were two separate plays, but they were just one. Yes, a missed technical foul is huge, especially considering the success of our SLOB plays to date. (Side-line Out of Bounds).
That we had the lead going into the 4th quarter, only to relinquish it down the stretch should be a bigger concern than the one or two FTs we were jipped out of.
