anyone watching the refs hand OKC the game???

[SnakeBoy]

Everybody knows it was our ball. I think the bottom line is they thought it was a foul and made up for it. In my opinion let’s take away the replay system. Because that is our ball we win the game and we got robbed because of that call. And it is clear. Everybody in the arena saw it. That is why everybody was shocked when they said Oklahoma City. That was our ball. Whether it was a foul or not, it was but they didn’t call it. The same thing happened to us in the Golden State series where they tried to reverse the call. They didn’t want to look at the replay because they knew it was a foul but they had to and they had to go by what it said. so, they give Golden State the ball and the NBA later came out and said it should have been a foul. The official on that play that he made — didn’t see the foul but he had to be honest on the replay. That didn’t happen here. We made our own mistakes. We turned the ball over and fouled. We did a lot of stuff to lose the game ourselves. But at the end of the day we’ve a replay system that you are supposed to look at. I don’t want to hear that they didn’t have that replay. That is a bunch of crap.

That is what i heard. That is a bunch of crap. We should never have lost that. We stopped playing with 3:00 left, we were milking the clock. We turned the ball over. We came out of the time-out and we were supposed to foul Durant before he made the three. We made a comedy of errors but having said that we still have the right to win the game if it says it is our ball and that didn’t happen. It is too bad for us. We have two more games to play but that could be a series — defining call and that is not right.

[Mikeanaro]

Tomorrow, the NBA will issue an apology

But that apology will change the ol´sports result?

[spursfan1000]

Chris Paul handed the game to OKC too, tbh.

[KaiRMD1]

But that apology will change the ol´sports result?

No, quite the opposite ol' sport. It will just make Clippers fan react like this

[Mikeanaro]

No, quite the opposite ol' sport. It will just make Clippers fan react like this

[poop]

It was a whle series of bad calls. First the BS giving okc possession. They called ticky tack fouls to put okc on the line but on the other end, okc could swamp chris paul and they swallow their whistle. The foul call on that westbrick heroball 3 pointer was the icing on the cake...what a joke. Robbery pure and simple

[bklynspursfan]

Thunder were 15/17 from the line in the 1st quarter. They had 25 points total that quarter

Jordan fouled out in 19 minutes. Paul was in foul trouble early, Glen Davis had 3 fouls in the first quarter. What's even more disgusting is that none of this is surprising. The league wants Durant vs Lebron so bad.

Here's the plays down the stretch:

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That's CP3 getting fouled on the last play. No call. I mean, that's a clear ing foul.

[bklynspursfan]

On that last play, it is possible that the ref was not able to see cause of Crawford. (see below) Even though there was another official under the basket, but that's the only logical explanation I could see. however the one with it going off Reggie Jackson was inexcusable. I mean it went clearly off of him

[FromWayDowntown]

It wasn't that obvious. There was contact on the ball from Barnes (along with the wrist) and there is some possibility that Jackson may have lost the ball with it still touching Barnes' hand last... I've got no problem with the refs choosing not to overturn the original call after replay.

I didn't see it in real time, but watching some replays this morning, I'm not convinced that there was conclusive evidence that Jackson last touched the ball and since the call on the floor was Thunder ball, I get them refusing to overturn the call.

With that said, the play points out a subtle issue that crops up from time-to-time and becomes a real problem in late game situations that are reviewable. The long-time culture of NBA officiating has held that in those cir stances, where there's an out-of-bounds play where there may have been a foul before the final touch, the better call is to just give the team that was likely fouled the ball out of bounds, rather than calling a foul. This happens a lot on rebounding plays, but sometimes on drives too (I recall a couple happening involving the Spurs over the last few seasons -- there was one in Golden State last year, during the regular season, I think; I also recall one like that in a home game a few years ago when replay was fairly new). That decision, while not correct according to the black-letter of the rulebook, tends to be relatively equitable. The problem is that when that play goes to replay now, the officials can't just lean on that reasoning and uphold the call on that basis. Once they've chosen to swallow the whistle on that play and then have to review the out-of-bounds call, they're left with no way to go back and call the foul that should have been called. And a lot of times, that results in the team that was likely fouled getting hosed by not only a missed foul call but also by losing possession. Before replay, that never happens.