Ref venting
First off, before all the “hoops purists” come for my throat because I’m ref blaming, please kick rocks. I know we had 21 turnovers and they out scored us in fast break by a million. I know castle had 9 turnovers (btw I blame injuries and coaching more than him, he’s a sophomore guys). I know Wemby needs to adjust to the physicality, we showed tired legs and lack of focus, our fast breaks were few, far between, and inefficient. Now my turn to vent.
What makes the officiating in game 2 so aggravating is that we didn’t even need every call to win. If they had properly called the 3 most egregious whistles - IHart pulling Castle’s hair (which led to a McCain 3), the Isiah Joe flop (erased a Juju 3), and a foul on the Castle McCain jump ball (also led to a thunder 3). If those 3 egregious misses were called correctly, that’s a 9 point difference in a 9 point loss.
There were several more horrible mistakes from the crew last night that I won’t even get into. I’m so proud of our guys for fighting through that bullshit last night and hope the refs adjust and don’t let this shit get out of hand like the wolves series. I thought they corrected themselves but far too late.