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League acknowledges Spurs' Barry was fouled
By Marc Stein
ESPN.com
The league office on Wednesday reviewed the final play of the San Antonio Spurs' 93-91 home loss to the Los Angeles Lakers in Game 4 of the Western Conference finals and acknowledged that a two-shot foul should have been called on Derek Fisher for impeding Brent Barry.
After falling behind by seven points in the final minute, San Antonio sliced the deficit to two and regained possession with 2.1 seconds to play.
Barry then wound up with the ball in the center of the floor on a play called for Manu Ginobili and faked Fisher in the air but struggled to get off a 3-point heave at the buzzer after Fisher came down and bumped Barry.
"With the benefit of instant replay, it appears a foul call should have been made," league spokesman Tim Frank said Wednesday.
The miss sealed an L.A. victory that moved the Lakers into a commanding 3-1 series lead entering Thursday's Game 5 at Staples Center.
But the Spurs did not protest the non-call afterward, even though a foul called before the shot would have sent Barry to the line for two free throws and a chance to force overtime.
The non-call nonetheless generated more than the usual scrutiny because the closest referee to the play was Joey Crawford, with whom San Antonio has a contentious recent history.
"That play," Barry said, "was not where the game was lost."
The Spurs, in truth, wouldn't have had a chance to tie or win the game in the final two seconds if not for a fortuitous non-call on the previous possession.
Television replays indicated that Fisher's shot with 6.9 seconds to go grazed the rim before bouncing out of bounds off of Robert Horry's leg, meaning that the Lakers should have had a new shot clock instead of asking Kobe Bryant to hurry a fadeaway jumper after the ensuing timeout.
The new shot clock likely would have forced San Antonio to foul Bryant as opposed to getting the ball back off Bryant's miss to draw up a potential game-winning play.
"It wasn't a foul. ... I think it was a proper no-call from what I saw," Spurs coach Gregg Popovich said of Fisher bumping Barry.
Added Spurs forward Tim Duncan: "You're not going to get that call. They're not going to make that call."
The Lakers were likewise adamant that no foul should have been called on Fisher, pointing at least in part to the fact that they didn't get a new shot clock on the Fisher miss -- and that Bryant didn't earn a single trip to the free-throw line despite attempting 29 shots from the field.
"Yeah, he bumped him," Lakers coach Phil Jackson said of Fisher landing on Barry. "You know, games go like that."
Marc Stein is the senior NBA writer for ESPN.com. To e-mail him, click here.
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WTF
So can we do a replay with free throw a la' Hawks/Heat?
jk, but still.
Duh. Does a lot of good now. Thanks NBA. Keep your official with an axe to grind at home next time.
Thanks for twisting the knife, NBA
After all that bull from Laker fans
How many times will the league publicly slap Joey's wrist before they stop assigning him to Spurs games?
Yeah, that would be funny as ...
Thank you Joey! Thank you Stern!
You sure want us to go on vacation sooner than planned!
+1Thanks for twisting the knife, NBA
What a laughingstock this league has become.
[QUOTE=Spurs Brazil;2554348]http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/playof...ory?id=3416412
[B]League acknowledges Spurs' Barry was fouled
By Marc Stein[/B]ESPN.com
The league office on Wednesday reviewed the final play of the San Antonio Spurs' 93-91 home loss to the Los Angeles Lakers in Game 4 of the Western Conference finals and acknowledged that a two-shot foul should have been called on Derek Fisher for impeding Brent Barry.
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hahahahahahahaha
Your own coach said he wouldnt have called it...
aside from that, why dont you ponder this MYOPIAN...
Kobe never reached the charity stripe!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Not once..
Duncan took 27 steps on that one play......
Fish's shot did hit the rim, which would have given them the ball back and a 2 point lead...
U see dipsh!t it all evens out in the end, nut up and accept...
What a tool
Wow! So when does Barry get to shoot the FTs?
What? He doesn't?
it says with the benfits of instant replay?
but don't buzzer beating shots auto have instant reply in the nba now
Foul or no foul, the Spurs played like in Game 4 and deserved to lose...now they have to win 3 in a row to advance to the Finals...not an impossible task, but still a very difficult one.
[QUOTE=ipeefreely;2554383]Not the point, there a bizzilion page thread on Laker fans saying there wasn't a foul when the OFFICIAL RULING is that there was.http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/playof...ory?id=3416412
[B]League acknowledges Spurs' Barry was fouled
By Marc Stein[/B]ESPN.com
The league office on Wednesday reviewed the final play of the San Antonio Spurs' 93-91 home loss to the Los Angeles Lakers in Game 4 of the Western Conference finals and acknowledged that a two-shot foul should have been called on Derek Fisher for impeding Brent Barry.
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hahahahahahahaha
Your own coach said he wouldnt have called it...
aside from that, why dont you ponder this MYOPIAN...
Kobe never reached the charity stripe!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Not once..
Duncan took 27 steps on that one play......
Fish's shot did hit the rim, which would have given them the ball back and a 2 point lead...
U see dipsh!t it all evens out in the end, nut up and accept...
What a tool
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Ironically, this may damage what small chance the Spurs have of winning Game 5 (by causing the Game 5 refs to "rally round" the refs who were chastized for screwing the Spurs).
The only thing they can review with the instant replay is whether or not a buzzer beater left the shooters' hand in time. They cannot review calls or non-calls by the refs.
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[QUOTE=Trainwreck2100;2554407]The point is from my post even if there was(and your own coach said there wasnt) that Timmy traveled on that shot, Fish's shot did hit the rim and Kobe didint jack one ball from the charity stripe......
That is the POINT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Eat it, enjoy it, know it!
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The point is from my post even if there was(and your own coach said there wasnt) that Timmy traveled on that shot, Fish's shot did hit the rim and Kobe didint jack one ball from the charity stripe......
That is the POINT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Eat it, enjoy it, know it!
And after all that, the league only acknowledges that Barry was fouled.
happens
but but he traveled???happens
What Lakers fan is saying there wasn't contact? There was contact, but no foul was called. No one expected a foul to be called. No one.
The last thing any referee wants to do is decide the game on a last second foul call. No one is disputing that unwritten rule. Not even your own players. You can go through the annals of time and recollect numerous plays where the offensive player drives through the lane in the last second, gets his wrist slapped or his head knocked and no foul is called. It happens to Lebron James, Kobe Bryant and Tim Duncan.
Well, maybe not Tim Duncan. They should've thrown it in to him. They would've called a handchecking foul or something.
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