Not-so-breaking-news: Durant was in fact fouled
by Spencer Pan on Apr 8, 2010 9:21 PM CDT
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PrintIt's always nice to be vindicated. For those of you who missed it, the NBA has officially noted (belatedly) that Durant was indeed fouled during the final play of the Utah game. It's moments like these where fans are going to cry out for instant replay and review. Obviously this doesn't actually do much to help us, and I'm pretty sure everyone is over it already ... but again, it's nice when the governing body admits that you're right. Here's the news in full glory:
NBA admits referees made mistake in Thunder/Jazz game
Sports Network | April 8, 2010
New York, NY (Sports Network) - The NBA admitted Wednesday that game officials made a mistake on a last-second no-call from the previous night in Utah's 140-139 home overtime win over the Oklahoma City Thunder.
"On the final play of last night's Oklahoma City-Utah game, the officials missed a foul committed by the Jazz's C.J. Miles on the Thunder's Kevin Durant during a three-point shot attempt," said Joel Litvin, NBA president of league and basketball operations.
Deron Williams made the game-winning jumper with 1.1 seconds left in overtime for Utah, but the Thunder had a chance to pull out the victory at the end. Durant's long three-pointer missed, but his hand was clearly hit by Miles as the buzzer sounded. Durant turned toward the game officials in disbelief that no foul was called.
The loss left the Thunder tied with San Antonio for sixth place in the Western Conference. Both clubs lost on Wednesday and Portland defeated the Los Angeles Clippers to make it a three-way tie for the No. 6 seed.
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I'm sorry
But this doesn’t help at all. That no-call was huge, and left me somewhat bitter. Coming out and admitting that you were wrong-and then doing nothing to rectify it-is in my mind a serious disrespect to the situation.
Well, yeah. On the other hand
It’s something at least. Until the system gets rectified, this is basically the best that we’re going to get.
remember
that new years eve game where paul millsap was called for a ghost foul in the paint late in the game? i think they’re even now. besides, durant will get plenty more make up calls in the post season for that. many more important games have been decided by a stupid no-call or a dumb call in general. like the finals game where michael jordan pushed off bryon russell for the game winning shot. guess what? shit happens!
by rodanelcoolio on Apr 11, 2010 2:41 AM CDT up reply actions
Yes, except that
Two non-calls still doesn’t make either of them correct. It’s like the non-call backcourt violation against the Warriors — sure it was nice that it bolstered our team momentarily, but it was just so very blatant and ridiculous that if that were the deciding factor of the game …
Thanks for posting this, I totally blanked on it.
And this means absolutely nothing. It’s like Chris Webber admitting trying to call a timeout when there was no timeouts while he played for Michigan was a bad call. It’s just confirming a fact without doing anything about it.
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are they going to let KD shoot free throws now and change the outcome of the game?…no, so who cares.
those refs should be suspended for x number of games b/c that was a pathetic non-call. thats the only thing that you can do that would really mean anything. admitting it was a foul does nothing unless some action is taken and the only action that can be taken is to suspend the refs. NBA needs to do something to rectify the inconsistent officiating b/c its something that makes people not tune into the NBA.
I'm starting to think that the only way something like this is going
to start working to change how the NBA addresses phantom calls and non-calls is going to be a NBA Finals, Game 7, last second play. Basically, do this all over again except on a larger stage, with the non-call center stage as the clear deciding factor for a championship. And even then, I’m not sure if we’d get more than a tiny, little budge in the correct direction.
agreed
change only occurs when problems happen on the largest stage. look at the NFL, NFC title game is pretty much decided by a coin-flip. Saints get the ball, one catch and a pass interference call and they are in FG range. Now they are changing the OT rules so the other team might at least have 1 possession.
Although we’ve seen terrible officiating on big stages before. The 02 Lakers-Kings series comes to mind, as does the Mavs-Heat Finals. Still have crappy officiating.
The first step, IMO, is to have some guy charting calls and then have a review group that reviews each game and charts the missed calls. Officials/officiating teams that have a bad chart get suspended for games or for playoff series. That might do something to clean it up.
Durrant was fouled
Durrant was also stolen but thats a different matter. Sonics RIP. hope we play you in the playoffs so i can finally have my vengeance
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