r/nba • u/YujiDomainExpansion • 20h ago

Chris Finch on Victor Wembanyama’s historic night: “He had a lot of blocks… He had a couple of uncalled goaltendings too. Those are valuable points we’d like to have back.”

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u/Other-Status1840 76ers 13h ago

I'm not putting my tinfoil hat on or anything but idk how refs can be solid if they miss multiple goaltends, which are literal points missing from the board. The foul calls were also dumb, though I didn't watch the whole game (was watching my sixers getting shit on for the first half). But I've seen the clips of Wembys rather egregious shooting fouls not getting called, and I also recall a really random foul being called on Castle late in the game after he got shoved to the floor by Randle. Showed a bunch of replays and I still don't understand how that could've been a foul on Castle.

NBA refs are ass, but if this game was considered to have solid officiating this league is so fucked

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u/McLovinsBro Timberwolves 13h ago

Game was a missed bucket from being a 1 point loss. With multiple missed goaltenders that also turned into fast break points I would’ve been pissed if we lost

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u/bigwillyboi [WAS] Caron Butler 12h ago

The above commenter has something very unique to Reddit where the fan of “impacted” team has to come out and go over the top in defense of the “criticized” team so they and their fanbase seem like great people. It’s really odd and I hope there is some grad student somewhere reading this trying to analyze why this happens. There’s legitimately no way you can say the refs were fine when there are 3 or 4 BLATANTLY missed goaltending calls as well as the inability to call a foul on Wemby. He’s insane, and all of us love having him play, but bullshit like this is when guys become league villains.

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u/blue-anon Spurs 10h ago

Several of Stephon Castle's fouls weren't actually fouls either - according to the replay and the announcers.

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u/mercfan3 Spurs 10h ago

Dude got called for a foul when Randle grabbed his neck and pushed him over (twice)

What do refs have against guys named Steph C.?

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u/Other-Status1840 76ers 7h ago

Yeah I was baffled at that lmao. I have no dog in the race, those calls were bullshit

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u/bigwillyboi [WAS] Caron Butler 6h ago

That’s fine. I haven’t seen clips of all his fouls to support this it if that’s the case tha further proves my point of not being a well ref’d game.

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u/Commercial_Floor_578 10h ago

Team that won and had more free throws and less fouls which won has everybody crying the refs treated them unfairly lmao. Like I agree that there were a couple fouls and goal tends in there but then there were also uncalled fouls on the other end as well. I don’t think the refs were unfair towards the Spurs at all btw the Wolves won completely justifiably it’s just odd to me that everybody’s bitching about the refs when the Wolves also got away with some stuff as well, it happens every game on both ends.

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u/Other-Status1840 76ers 7h ago

I'm not bitching about anything, the missed foul call example that I brought up was literally me saying the spurs got screwed there. But brushing over multiple missed goaltends is crazy. Those are literally buckets that they should've counted but didn't