Not even being a homer but no it should not have at all. Harden swiped at Melo way before the shot. Great shot by Melo, but a 4 point play it was not.
Yeah he was not in the shooting motion nor driving toward the basket when he actually got hit. The refs don't give calls like that, especially in that situation.
Yeah but it looked like the refs missed that initial swipe and called it on the second swipe, which means the shot should have been continuation. I don't know. Maybe I need to see the replay.
Uh, that's why you pull Howard out during the free throw shooting contest. It's obvious you foul in this situation 90% of the time. We won the game this way tonight.
We are lucky the ref was on top of his game though, how many refs do you think have the balls to make that call at MSG? Not many! We were very lucky!
Of course it shouldn't have. Harden fouled long before he shot. Even both announcers on TNT agreed with that.
nice foul since NY didn't have anymore timeouts. But it still almost went bad. Melo might get that call Melo tried to miss the second FT and was in best rebounding position because no one boxed him out Knicks failed to foul Harden right away on our inbounds play. bottomline: as Hollinger has pointed out. The odds do not really improve beyond 6 seconds left, unless the other team has no timeouts left. So, McHale fouled this time.
What text book are you reading? I've watched a lot of basketball, and I can safely say I have never seen a team up 3 with 30 seconds left intentionally foul. That's way too early.
