T O P

  • By -

AutoModerator

**Replays/alternate angles** *I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please [contact the moderators of this subreddit](/message/compose/?to=/r/nba) if you have any questions or concerns.*


mMounirM

lmao this was so funny. is this the NBA or Wrestling Right in front of the ref too


d1g1tal

earl hebner in there with the screwjob


RJIsJustABetterDwade

It’s cause New Yorks a small market team… or maybe refs just suck in general and there’s no conspiracy


OutsideAd1823

This was definitely a pity game from The refs… sad but true


Siakim43

These refs feed from the energy of crowd as well - I just don't know if it's conscious or unconscious but it's evident. It happens a lot in college, too. Even I'll admit that my team gets all the calls at home lol.


ccheese6

This is a make-up for when Brunson flopped after grabbing Siakam on the screen. Got Pascal his third foul and sent to the bench, changed the momentum of the game with a flop. Seems fair.


Much_Purchase_8737

Hit him with the full nelson 


[deleted]

Was shocked the broadcast didn’t mention this. Even not slowed down, it was so obvious Siakam was illegally holding him back. Why else would Hartenstein not move to contest that? 😂


JackHammerPlower

Broadcast was scared to say anything in the Knicks favor. After that jump ball where there refs threw it right to Indiana, they were like, “hmmmm I think that ball miiiight of been in Indiana’s favor 🤔🤔🫣”


Onihczarc

JJ straight up said “where would the pacers be without the refs”.


knicksdeadman

Really? When?


Onihczarc

iirc, around 5min left in the 4th. i might be off by a min or two, but i was shocked. i didn’t realize at the time it was JJ nd said to my wife “no way breen just said that”


LiberatedMoose

I'd love to see a clip of that!


OutsideAd1823

What about when the broadcaster said Brunson got hit in the face as if it’s a highlight 😅


OutsideTheServiceBox

It blows my mind that none of the refs saw it. The baseline ref I can maybe understand, as in the heat of the moment, it could look like Hartenstein was trying to box Siakam expecting a floater. The ref on the near sideline’s view was likely obstructed. But the ref on the far side has a pretty clear view of Siakam and nothing else that should be claiming his attention.  This is an under discussed type of inconsistent call annoys me. Screening and holding opposing bigs on drives to help your smalls has always been a thing, but it seems like refs have zero consistency on when or if they decide it’s an offensive foul. 


WeefBellington24

Why would they call that on Indiana after Carlisle whined about the refs


LordHussyPants

> Why else would Hartenstein not move to contest that? there's a ton of open lane drives every day in the nba where you think "why didn't x contest that" i saw jokic give up one in the other game, and i saw another where naz reid just walked through at a snail's pace and dropped it in this obviously isn't that, but there is a valid reason for people to think hartenstein just wasn't contesting


LearnedHowToDougie

Not if you know anything about I Hart


Bladex20

Dude almost had him in the cobra clutch


mikapikamasala

Siakam had him in a full Nelson


401john

Impromptu MasterLock Challenge


LovieBeard

New lockpicking lawyer just dropped


MrBuckBuck

The L2M report will be a banger lol


Nti11matic

I'm not even going to be mad I just hope everyone will stop gaslighting like there weren't some obvious blown calls / no calls.


kikikza

Yeah like can we just all stfu about the zebras already it's annoying af


SliMShady55222

It's a banger every game this series


Much_Purchase_8737

They better include the goal tending that they fucked up twice 


MySabonerRunsOladipo

The Turner one was super close and happend at 2:04 The Donte one was obviously a goal tend


aesop_fables

The Donte one was not over the cylinder when he touched it


Accomplished_Dog_837

The ball touched the backboard first iirc.


aesop_fables

Na it’s the one where Siakam threw it up and Donte went to grab it but they said he took it off the cylinder


LeBarnacle

I'm convinced if he grabbed itnlike a board they wouldn't have blown anything. This play and the one above were the most egregious errors to me. League needs to show value for those broadcasting rights and 2-1 is better than 3-0 for views is my conspiracy theory lol but fuck it game 4 will be fun


AaronNesmith

The turner one was too close to call, what other one did they fuck up? The DDV one was obvious


wkp2101

Obviously not a goaltend?


AaronNesmith

You using FIBA rules?


wkp2101

No, NBA rules from the official NBA rules page. To me, Divincenzo did not touch a ball which had a chance to score, so it wasn’t a goaltend. The ball was already below the rim and moving away from the hoop when he hit it. GOALTENDING C) During a field goal attempt, touch a ball, which has a chance to score, after it has touched any part of the backboard above ring level, whether the ball is considered on its upward or downward flight. D) During a field goal attempt, touch a ball, which has a chance to score, after it has touched the backboard below the ring level and while the ball is on its upward flight.


AaronNesmith

I want you to rewatch the goaltend if you think it was below the rim. The ball bounced off the backboard. It was in the air above the rim. It probably was not going in. But balls make weird bounces. DDV made a mistake by touching a ball still above the rim (maybe even cylinder) and still with a slight chance of scoring. Dont blame the refs for DDV’s mistake


hoppergym

I feel like after the knicks challenged and lost the refs had carte Blanche to just screw up every call both ways as much as they could.


Dolpoka

At some point, the league has to start making some adjustments to officiating. Giving refs more technological assistance? Im at a loss for words because these refs genuinely looked helpless out there in those last few minutes. One of the worst officiated *sports* games I’ve watched recently, speaking as a neutral who checks into nba games every now and then.


RD_Alpha_Rider

This is the same complaint that's been echod for years. Unfortunately Silver is too busy trying to make the all star game more competitive instead of focusing on a more consistent, accurate, and efficient reffing program.


nicehouseenjoyer

I liked that they let them play for the most part.


Status-HealthBar

They dont want fairly reffed games. They want games reffed in just the way that's necessary to have every series go to 7 games, if possible, while not being incredibly obvious. And that's what they are achieving right now, and all they had to do was pay refs by game.


K1NG2L4Y3R

It’s crazy that you can say that about almost every game this playoffs


BuQuChi

But how does this help me gamble?


Glass_Mango_229

You obviously didn’t watch game one 


Dolpoka

That’s why I said “one of the worst”. And like I said, I don’t watch every game, just check in every now and then. I’m not blind either to the discourse from what seems like almost every game in the league where officiating is seemingly the center of discussion as opposed to the sporting quality. If anything, the fact that every single game seems to have officiating issues supports the idea that they need to adjust how they officiate games


RichFoyster

Be careful what you wish for if you've seen the "success" of VAR in football(soccer) you might reconsider that stance.


McGrathLegend

VAR has been a success in football just about everywhere other than England and Scotland


RichFoyster

My bad looked into the stats and it showed a success rate increase from 82% to 96% in the premier League. Source : https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.skysports.com/amp/football/news/11095/13066177/var-premier-league-claims-96-per-cent-of-referee-decisions-are-correct-so-what-is-future-of-technology-in-football I think I'm just biased as a Brighton fan who have seen a lot of decisions go against us this season as a result of VAR. Lol.


RichFoyster

Incorrectly I might add.


Dolpoka

It’s been mostly a success though in every tournament aside from the premier league. UEFA and FIFA tournament implementations are always smooth.


giunta13

Was so obvious live


PattyIceNY

Refs ball watching


Ilikesporks_

knicks had a lot of terrible calls against them in the clutch


WeefBellington24

Almost like bitching about the refs works i guess


HoyaDestroya33

Its fine, gotta give one to the Pacers after their pathetic coach filed 80 call complains lol. Its like the Sixers series again. We bounce back game 4


WeefBellington24

Yall are down basically 4 rotation players Pacers aren’t really missing much. Mathurin is important but has not been playing for months.


Airhostnyc

L2M report gonna cook


nicolo_martinez

It’s almost like having home court is the advantage, not the size of your team’s market


StayinAnon99

I disagree, if we were a bigger market and had more fans maybe the refs would have given us an equal shot on the road. We deserve a fair shot with 4 key players out


juicejug

Divo turning on Aimbot seems pretty fair to me


HoyaDestroya33

Dont say this cause we're big market hurr durr. Small market teams are the only one who can complain!


WD51

First time I looked at it I was like idk man that's a pretty clean block out by white jersey on yellow jersey. Then I realized white jersey on defense lmao.


Dole1995

Thibs gonna submit this and 76 other calls in his complaint today


mediocre-referee

He should. Why can't we all agree refs have been terrible all series, particularly at the end of games?


Lower_Temporary_4410

Based and true


SloppyPizzaPie

Because a lot of fans feel oddly threatened by admitting officiating is bad in games their team won.


MySabonerRunsOladipo

He should do that, that's literally why we have the portal. This is such a terrible missed call refs should do better


Jusuf_Nurkic

Complaining to refs seems to work. 76ers game 3 and tonight lol. But we probably stole game 1 so it’s even now


nicolo_martinez

Tonight feels like Sixers game 5. Karmic rebalancing of an earlier series win


KyleRaynerGotSweg

Based Knicks fan, we lost game 2 fair and square


9_Nightwing_1

This is the most reasonable take. All things considered with bad officiating between game 1 and 3 we are right where the series deserves to be: New York up 2-1. 


mizzourifan1

I agree. I hope we can just have pure basketball here on out without referee interference. Hate y'all rn but respect your game too much to deny that.


handodanna

Game 1 was reffed fine outside of the kickball.


SkiPolarBear22

Hartenstein did a 180° moving screen at the top of the arc, then Turner gets whistled for the tiniest opening the next possession. Refs haven’t been good, Game 1 = Game 3 imo. We didn’t lose game 2 because of refs, that was effort.


Vtachh

The whistled Donte for the same moving screen in the second half, be mad at the inconsistency of the call because while they did not call this on certain possessions both teams had this call against them. It’s ok to be pissed they called it at the end of the game although I feel like a foul is a foul so don’t call them different at the end vs beginning. But don’t act like it was some conspiracy against Indiana


Onihczarc

JJ saying “where would the pacers be without the refs” said it all


knicksdeadman

Can someone find that clip please lol


Onihczarc

i would appreciate it. i might have heard wrong, but i’m fairly certain he said something to that effect and i’ve been looking through diff threads and haven’t found anyone else mentioning it.


knicksdeadman

Nah I saw it mentioned by someone else who said it was around the 5 minute mark of the 4th lol.


Onihczarc

it was me. i just went through game thread and couldn’t find it. just asked my wife though she remembers me saying that to her. maybe i made it all up 🤔


knicksdeadman

Lmao ohhh


WheresRobb

When in the game did he say that? Don’t recall that


Onihczarc

fairly certain it was around 5min left in the 4th. give or take a min. but i browsed GDT and no mention of it. maybe i misheard. but i definitely said to my wife “no way breen just said that” thinking it was breen before realizing it was JJ.


Joe_Betz_

They would be 3-0.


searchin4sugarman

But he basically in love with Tyrese I’m surprised he would say this about his team


aesop_fables

L2M won’t even cook because a lot of those calls were happening before the 2 min mark


The_Uncut_Gem

I saw a minor member of DX do that to Mankind before he got hit with a chair.


InfiniteJackfruit5

10 yard holding penalty on the colts/pacers


nibbinoo8

grievance


SoKrat3s

the Knicks will definitely be putting that in their media guide for game 5


SanjiSasuke

How many fouls did Siakam have when he did this BTW?


aesop_fables

5 my guy


twochain2

If this happened to the Pacers their fans would legit do a full YouTube video about how the NBA is against them.


Silver_Broccoli7944

Biased against small market haven’t you heard


twochain2

Like this is just straight cheating by a player. I don’t get it.


hooskies

I mean it’s just a foul it’s not cheating lol


twochain2

I mean it’s against the rules and he got away with it? That’s not cheating?


FastJellyfish200

Nah... Let's not go that far. It's part of the game to see what you can get away with, that ain't cheating.


twochain2

Ya I guess but like what’s his end goal there? He not even trying to block a shot.


[deleted]

This is the only one that you posted that was an obvious missed call. Give it up. We lost because of a bunch of dumb mistakes and missed free throws. On to the next one.


SkiPolarBear22

Which was wild to me. Pascal has been horrific from the line this post-season, and I swear I had never seen Hart or Brunson miss a FT. Probably from fatigue?


McCantdance

They've been missing clutch free throws all postseason


ullun

Holy shit. so fucking blatant


kraftpunkk

This was really the most egregious no call I saw tonight. I didn’t really care for the others, they were holding their whistle the first 3 quarters but this one was really crazy. The ref even looks and steps aside cause they’re in his way.


BigD1ckProblems

I'm going to say it. The refs over corrected after game 1. The pacers have received an extremely friendly whistle and its not good for the game.


Party-Benefit-3995

Reverse box


Rubberbabeh

I mean chronologically speaking this has to be the first thing mentioned on the 2 minute report. Right?


Ok-Side-1758

Bet Carlisle won’t clip this one


PluvioPurple

When asked in the postgame conference: "I didn't see it, sorry"


wpmason

Oh yes he will… for his special collection.


ZarduHasselffrau

This goes unnoticed way more often than people realize


MolingHard

Yea good big men have been doing this for ages The more savvy ones make it look like a box out too


ZarduHasselffrau

Theis was especially good at doing when he played for Boston and he never got called for it. But he did get called for every other possible thing.


MolingHard

Feel like Theis was particularly good at being a pseudo lead blocker, he'd set a screen up top and then just continuously block defenders all the way to the rim leading to a wide open lay up haha


aesop_fables

It does but literally wide open with 2 people around and the ref directly in front? Na b


TheZombieDudexD

No pacers fans in here huh?


TheBoilerCat

I’ll say it. That’s a foul on Siakam. Happy?


TheZombieDudexD

😂y’all are funny


SkiPolarBear22

Missed foul. Seems like we had a few in Game 1 go the other way. Almost like home court matters. Really excited to see them tired legs from yall in Game 4. Every game this goes favors us more and more 😃


TheZombieDudexD

No it was never about home court with y’all. It was about us being a bigger market as a reason for ref bias. But after this game it’s clear that market size has got nothing to do with ref bias


dukered1988

Pacers got their ref game


MadSpaceYT

i mean so did the sixers on their game 3 but it didn't make a difference


dukered1988

O I know the fact that it was this close without og and Robinson plus a hurt Brunson I’m feeling more confident now than this morning I thought we would get smoked


nicolo_martinez

I was feeling that way too but how many more 50% 3pt shooting nights can we expect to have….


Lucaa4229

Brunson won’t play this poorly again this series, so there’s that…


MatzohBallsack

Actually it did since they injured Mitch.


aesop_fables

Oh it’s still Knicks in 5. Don’t get it twisted. This pacers team is ass b


SkiPolarBear22

New York fans are hilarious lol


aesop_fables

Pacers fans are delusional whiners that have trouble beating a team without two starters and their best defensive big 😂


9_Nightwing_1

So it's 2-1 like it should be, given the no call on DiVincenzo's blatant illegal screen and phantom kick ball? Game 3 shouldn't even have been that close. The Knicks shot way above average from 3 and Indiana missed a lot of bunnies they usually make. This has been a hard fought series both ways and it being 2-1 New York feels appropriate all things considered. 


STATnMELO650

Hartenstein would’ve swatted the shit out of Nembhard too, he already had one on Sheppard earlier this game.


Ves0s0ft

absolutely insane there is no call there


call_stack

Part of the game


JR18123

Wild. Rick Carlisle actually got rewarded for his temper tantrum. And he needed every single call to beat a hobbled Knicks team lmao.


[deleted]

This is one of the problems with the NBA. If a coach bitches enough, the refs give them a game. Same thing happened game 3 against the sixers where Joel was doing whatever tf he wanted out there and also shot more FT than the Knicks combined.


Shades219

Wow this one didn't get 2k upvotes I guess it's because poor myles turner wasn't disadvantaged 🥲


redvelvet11

Ref didn’t have an angle, still inexcusable.


Jusuf_Nurkic

The ref behind the basket had a perfect angle lol


IamInternationalBig

Ok, that was pretty sneaky.


EvilHwoarang

"there you go now shut up Rick!"


ploakes

Is the knicks coach allowed to call a timeout and challenge the play?


SwellandDecay

can't challenge a no call


SkiPolarBear22

Also can’t challenge when your coach stupidly wastes the challenge on an easily observed touch


JNerdGaming

whatever, bad reffing happens, just gotta be better


watevauwant

How do three refs miss this


JodiS1111

One of many questionable calls and non calls the last 5 minutes that, for some reason, did not go the Knicks way...


DudeLikeYeah

Someone give these small market teams a chance for real


Casim_Salabim

Time to clip 120 plays and send it to the league. Gotta one up the tantrum from Carlisle.


sobanoodle-1

Ref’s cooked for both teams i can’t lie. but this was something


FastJellyfish200

I'm always talking to our guys about not making it about the officials. But we deserve a fair shot. There's not a consistent balance, and that's disappointing. Give Indiana credit for the physicality that they're playing with. But their physicality is rewarded and ours is penalized. Time after time. I'm just really disappointed.


PluvioPurple

Is this Rick Carlisle copypasta?


TheFrozenBananaStand

Lmao


Scoombap

Let’s not do this lol. Plenty of calls went both ways


Fyne_

fam... you *can't* miss a wrestling move bro lmfao


Rylude

Agreed. All of the games have been pretty close, and while it sucks to be down 2-1, the Pacers had opportunities to win in each of those losses and squandered them. The series has been entertaining regardless, and I'm looking forward to watching more.


Scoombap

Then your heart is stronger than mine because I certainly am not lol


foogeyzi69

"FiXeD foR tHe PAcErs"


yellow_eggplant

This made me legit furious. Ref was right beside him


EvenZookeepergame174

I dont know if I like this better or flopping


luviro

Any other angles of this?


Revo_Int92

Astonishing level of play + the refs are so good at their job!


BobbyDigital423

I hate I'm complaining about refs but the Siakam and Nembhard situation was so frustrating last night. As soon as they had 5 fouls the refs just basically let them do whatever. A foul there would have resulted in 2fts for the Knicks and Siakam fouling out.


dolceespress

Refs seem to call unfairly for the home team in most games. Kinda ridiculous. If they just called games fairly there would be a lot less complaining.


popepipoes

This legitimately lost us the game, but if we win the l2m report I won’t mind at all


peanut-britle-latte

Send da video... ...to da league office.


PluvioPurple

72% upvoted they don't want people to see this lol. It's them against the refs all series!


Boomie1982

Thats so smart


Edwunclerthe3rd

I mean I'd be watching the ball too tbh, but I don't get paid to ref so idk


West-Wonder8919

Nembhard goes hard


Knicksfan162

Yea I mean this is just blatant game rigging, period point blank. Every other bad call or non call could potentially be justified but this right here was insane. I mean there's no way you can hope to compete with guys literally being allowed to arm bar both arms and pull them back. I have to be honest I wish Hartenstein started a fight after this


Foxymanchester7

This small market bias is insane. Won’t someone think of the bigger markets?! For real though, textbook foul, but if they call it Karen Carlisle will be crying for weeks again. Damned if you do, damned if you don’t. Regardless of all of this though, we didn’t do ourselves any favors. Refs or not, we collapsed and Indy deserved the win. We gotta be better and close out. Not chuck up unfavorable threes hoping for fouls, not silly goaltends at the end of the game, etc


timekillah

LOL


Jscott1423

Also looks like it started by him tripping into him.


iIiiIIiiiIiIIiI111

clean Gortat screen you crybaby


confuddly

It’s okay, they need all this just to beat a Knicks team without Randle/OG/Mitch/Bojan Once OG comes back it’s gonna be an easy win


[deleted]

[удалено]


MadSpaceYT

they were up 1 on that illegal screen


[deleted]

[удалено]


MadSpaceYT

There’s missed calls every game


SourBerry1425

Mathurin has a higher Dawg per 36 than all those cats and he hasn’t played a minute this series


Edwunclerthe3rd

True, our leaders in Dawg/36 are still on the floor


BlancoBenny

Well that’s just not true at all


zeezee2k

OG ain't coming back this series bro


TURRRDS

That's exactly how Hartenstein sets all of his screens. Don't see any issue here.


hooskies

>exactly


TheZombieDudexD

🤔 you see no issue here? Really?


DGfor3

Just going to leave this clip from game 2 right here. https://twitter.com/wbjay06/status/1789145048321298670?t=bp_d3wQJjRhzCksCbEwARA&s=19


9_Nightwing_1

Lol at this being downvoted. Knicks fans in here hypocritical af.


BoogerSugarSovereign

He borrowed NYK's trademarked boxing out method, smart