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This was the real officiating error. He wasn't even close to the restricted area. There's reasonable arguments both ways on block/charge. There's no reasonable defense for the official not paying close enough attention to be 100% certain of the call on the floor.
Also lost in this- I really don't think it would have mattered, other than transferring the heat from JR to George Hill. 4.7 minus however long it took him to secure the board is not a lot of time, and JR isn't exactly a skilled, creative finisher in the paint, plus he had an athletic 7 footer with a 12 foot wingspan in between him and the basket. If he knew the exact situation and made the right play he either gets an immediate TO or kicks it out to the first person he sees on the perimeter who can get a semi-decent look. Maybe a 25% chance they hit IMO.
God: "Then why didn't you call timeout, JR?"JR
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JR Smith: "I was trying to get enough to bring it out to get a shot off. I knew we were tied, I thought we were going to call timeout. If I thought we were ahead, I'd have held onto the ball and let them foul me."
So with less than 5 seconds remaining, the Cavs had ~75% chance to take a 1 point lead, and an additional 25% chance to take a 2 point lead. But they came away with nothing.
Sounds about right.
Nah. They would have given it to Durant, who would have let JR rip the ball right out of his hands, rather than getting off a shot.
I actually later realized that it was actually the Cavs bench that I was looking at. I thought that the guy was standing in front of Jason Collins, but it was definitely the Cavs bench.
With the game on the line and Hill an 85% FT shooter in the playoffs I think your trivializing his choke at the line.
You are just going to die on this hill aren't you? It doesn't matter what 100 m refs think especially when they would probably be split. It matters what those 2 officials thought. In real time they called it a charge and block and then went charge after a word with each other. I think it is safe to assume the charge ref convinced the other ref his view was better. After they looked at the replay they obviously said oops your view was better or I didn't see that from this angle and changed the call.
Hill is shooting 78.6% from the line this season (80% career). That means he's gonna make both free throws only 61.7% of the time in normal circumstances. Like @wilked said, one out of two was a reasonably likely outcome.
I guess it was Mike Longabardi.
I agree with that, but I also agree he choked. He looked scared and that free throw was 3 inches short from being an air ball.
I only watched the second half of the opera and Mozart always writes decent tunes but the rest of the opera is so painfully boring to watch.
Yeah I kinda thought that too, but OTOH I think there was more pressure on the first FT when the possibility of him losing the game at the line was still on the table.
He looks scared 90% of the time. He has a nearly permanent deer in the headlights facial expression.
It is actually something I did on more than one occasion in my college playing days. It was part of my role on the team.
To be fair, I think there was a bit of a Band of Brothers lieutenant Speirs running through Foye situation going on
Agree with all of this, except that if two refs disagree on the call on the floor, and it is a reviewable play, they should review.
I think this is the problem here. In the NFL's review handbook, there has to be indisputable evidence that the call was wrong. There was no way there was indisputable evidence on that call, as we can see with everyone having a different opinion even after watching it in slow-mo. In the NFL, even if they review that play they stay with the call on the field.
Its not a game-winning free throw with 4.7 seconds left. That's a perfect set up for one of the Warriors' shooters to hit a game-winner at the other end.
