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Wo where’s the foul here? Even in slow mo on the replay I don’t see how you can call this.
And watch this offensive foul that was actually a flop by AD, effectively taking away this three here by Scottie Barnes.
After the game coach Rajakovic was furious and delivered one of the most epic postgame rants.
So let’s go and check all the questionable decisions in the fourth quarter to see if Toronto really got robbed in this game.
First thing that I wanna point out is a non call by the refs. To me this is a clear extension of the forearm by Davis causing Barnes to lean sideways, and is almost always a whistle. The refs missed this.
Then we got this foul on AD. Scottie Barnes plays perfect defense, but on the replay you see Quickley coming in at the last moment and pushing Davis. Although this is very slight, it is still a push so technically the correct call, and the Raptors wasted their review on this.
The very next possession, after committing his 5th foul, Quickley makes another costly mistake, which basically took him out of the game. This was actually a flagrant foul and from what I’ve seen, elbow to the head is usually called a flagrant. You can see the ref explaining to Quickley the difference of having your elbows low and tucked in, as opposed to what he did.
Now if they called that little ticky tack push on IQ against Davis, then this push by Taurean Prince is definitely a foul. He sent Thadeous Young flying, and obviously affected the shot, so I have no idea how this was a non call.
Chronologically, we now get to the example from the intro. A ridiculous call
Then, watch this:
Let me play it in slow motion now frame by frame, and stop it right here to see that Barrett's swipe is on the outside of the ball. There is no contact to the arm here.
Then let’s go to this angle from the replay, and watch how Christy in fact loses the ball up here by himself. This was not a result of the swipe down low. This is not a foul, but the Lakers got more free throws.
And in a crucial possession with less than 30 seconds to go, we got this shameless flop by Davis, and the offensive foul, wiping out the three which would have tied the game.
Instead, now the Raptors play the foul game and commit 4 fouls resulting in 8 free throws for the Lakers which inflated the numbers a little bit to 23 shots in the fourth.
With 10 seconds to go on this drive by Scottie Barnes, the Raptors commentators argue that this could also be an and-1.
If that was the case, then this meaningless 3 by Pascal Siakam would have actually tied the game.
There were definitely some questionable calls that directly impacted the final result. But if you ask Lebron, everything was clean.
Having the refs be the main actors of the game is a bad look for the league, especially when it’s happening for the second consecutive day. Check out how the refs robbed the Celtics right here in this video. Talk to you in the next one. Peace out.