Maybe don’t try to win a ridiculously physical game on a foul baiting fake shot attempt

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This is the whistle Detroit asked for. They got it. Now STFU.

And like dozens during the game, mostly by Detroit, these fucking refs didn’t whistle it.

KAT was mauled all game long, he went to the line one time.
Brunson was scientifically grabbed and tripped and pulled (and injured) since the jump ball, he shot 2 FTs.

In the first half of the third the refs let at least 20 fouls go, between the two teams, causing havoc and confrontations, they were horrible, unprofessional or simply stupid.

So their bad call on the last play is perfectly in line with the shitty refereeing they did all night.

And the Pistons, who’s game plan is “they can’t call them all” (like the Magic), get a taste of their own medicine.
Some people call it karma.

It’s the fatal flaw of the NBA and, unlike in baseball or tennis or other sports with zero sum rules, there is no automated solution.

100% Donnie. Combine this with the interminable stoppages and 3+ minute commercial breaks, I find the game I used to love most increasingly less appealing. And if the Knicks aren’t good, I tune out.

Tennis has been my favorite sport to follow for the past decade plus, and I love how objective truth governs the outcome, and not some middle aged dude in a uniform.

(FWIW, I like games like today’s, where the refs let the players play, but there’s just no honest way for me to argue that they were consistent across the board.)

Timmy didn’t sell it well.
Or perhaps it was marginal contact.