Missed Detroit’s Tim Hardaway Jr. Ghent Toon by Josh Hart van New York during the last game of the Playoff -Matchup of the pistons against the Knicks on Sunday, the NBA acknowledged shortly after Game 4 finished.
It was a critical missed call: Detroit lost the game with a single point, 94-93. Hardaway’s 3-point shot officially came across with 0.3 seconds. If the error had been street, he would have been used to go free to the error line that this council could have given the management.
“During Live Play, it was assessed that Josh Hart made a legal defensive game,” crew leader David Guthrie said a polar reporter after the game. “After Postgame Review, we noticed that Hart makes body contact that is more than marginal to Hardway Jr. and an error should have been called.”
The victory of New York gave the Knicks a 3-1 lead in the series.
“Did I make contact with him? Yes, I made contact with him, “said Hart. “Was it legal?
The NBA provides an overview of all calls in the last two minutes of games that were decided by three points or Femer, with those reports release release the day after the game. But in this case, with a polar report, the NBA Guthrie had a reporter speak and explain what happened.
Detroit did not argue that time went. Pistons -Coach JB Bickerstaff was clearly angry and approached the official crew on the floor shortly after the last shot, but I had no Mechaanism to challenge the call. One, the pistons had used their challenge earlier and two, even if BickerStaff still had the challenge that it hadn’t done – technically, no phone call was made, so he responded that IC has challenged.
“There is contact with Tim Hardaway’s Spreschot,” said Bickerstaff. “I don’t know in any other way for the different way.
The pistons had the ball over with 11.1 seconds, with one down. Code Cunningham misled to jump with 7.4 seconds over and after Scrolmble the ball ended up in the hands of Hardaway in the left corner.
Cunningham had 25 points, 10 assists and 10 rebounds for his first play-off Triple-Double and the third in franchise history, but he missed two shots and turned the ball around in the last 1:07.
Karl-Anthony Towns transferred a Go-Ahead 3-Pointer with 46.6 seconds and ended with 27 points for the Knicks. Jalen Brunson had 32 points.
The pistons have lost nine play -off games with a straight house since 2008, similar to an NBA record of Philadelphia from 1968 to 1971.
Reporting by the Associated Press.
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