Scholarship table
I thought I saw the wink, so I'm glad I wasn't just seeing things. But we don't know what he was winking at. Maybe somebody said something to him.
Is now the time to theorize again, as so many numb-nuts did, that the Warriors are better without one of the three best players in the world?
What do you know, Warriors fans? It’s almost like being down a starter or two in the NBA Finals can affect the outcome. Who’d have thunk it?!
The reffing in this game is atrocious.
Nick Nurse with just an atrocious job of taking the back to back timeouts. I don’t know if the media will talk about it, but I thought it as soon as he called the first timeout, the Raptors were in trouble. No idea what he was doing there, absolutely awful.
The offensive interference call ... I thought it was a good call as I watched it live but the replay seemed to show it was off the rim on the one angle. But I believe the rule states that it has to be conclusive proof to overturn a call, and if an angle or two were inconclusive, does that mean they have to stick to the call? That's what Javie said, and I assume he knows the rule and how to interpret it. Tough call, but maybe they got it "right" in the context of the NBA replay rule?
I have been impressed by Nurse these playoffs. He was terrible at the end of the game.
Here's my problem with it, and maybe it is simply a fact that people don't understand perspective. The view that showed it was clearly off the rim was the only angle to give you an accurate view. The others, because of the angle, and how perspective works are going to make it look closer to the rim than it was. When a ball is tipped out of bounds, they look for one clear angle, and make the call based on that. They don't care if there is a different angle that may suggest otherwise. Javie, and the officials seemed to make up a new rule on the spot, that all angles need to be conclusive. That isn't how they have ever done it, and had to rely on bad angles, with biased perspective to come to their conclusion.
It's absolutely crazy how different officials treat Curry and Klay, compared to any other player. They are grabbed, held, hacked, pushed, etc on every possession with or without the ball, with no calls. Absolutely crazy what they let defenders get away with when guarding them.There was just a possession where both Curry and Klay were flat out grabbed when they got free on a screen. Klay almost ended up turning it over because his arm was being held/pulled. Curry scored anyway. Go to the other end, and VanFleet was lightly bumped coming off a screen, immediate whistle. It's constantly that way, during the regular season now and the playoffs. Don't understand it.
Well, they do get some calls. I mean, Klay twice was given 3 FTs when fouled on 3-pointers in a way that often isn't called. I certainly don't think they were screwed tonight.