 What's the word y'all another controversial night in the association the Toronto Raptors went to Los Angeles to go against the LA Lakers and it was a one-point win for the Lakers but the reason it's controversial is because in the fourth quarter alone the Lakers shot 23 free throws while the Toronto Raptors shot just two and that of course got a lot of people talking I mean the previous night the Indiana Pacers won a game with a controversial ending with Jaylen Brown a company so it just feels like every single night there's something to be said about the refs and after this game Toronto Raptors head coach Darko Ryakovic I still don't know if I pronounced his name right went on a a rant outrageous what happened tonight this is completely BS this is shame shame for the referees shame for the league to allow this 23 free throws for them and we get two free throws in in the fourth quarter like how to play the game I all I understand respect for all stars and all that but we have star players in our team as well how's possible as Scottie Barnes who is old star caliber player in this league he goes every single time to the rem with force and trying to get get to the to the rem without flopping and and not trying to get foul calls he gets two free throws for a whole game how's that possible how are you gonna explain that to me they had to win tonight if that's if that's the case just let us know so we don't show up for the game just give them a win but that was not fair tonight and this is not happening first time for us Scottie Barnes is going to be old star he's going to be the face of this league and what's happening over here during whole season I've been holding you back it's a complete crack you asked me that's one of the best rents of the season so far so when I initially watched this game I didn't think too much about the fouls that were called against the Raptors but it was a stand about the lack of fouls called for the Raptors but in today's video I want to rewatch that fourth quarter and see on the second viewing can we spot what's a foul what's not a foul in that game last night was crazy I fell asleep on that you fell asleep I fell asleep Mike check one two one two Mike check one two one two yeah I'm not hearing nothing you got me emails I'm not really getting much KB I think it's bugging man I thought we were getting a new audio guy today we're here morning fellas hey man this exciting you guys gonna be so jealous we're both huge fans uh are you okay over there buddy oh I'm better than okay I gotta tell you after my last time of doing this I thought there was no way I'd ever get hired again it did not go well bro ain't no way that's pain man yeah it's me I actually minored in podcast engineering at Tennessee so I've been trying out a new career as an audio guy oh don't worry about me guys look I'm gonna make your show sound awesome you might know where I should set up uh it's right over here bro all right let's check some levels here 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foul no complaints from the players that's how we go that's how we're going to determine one of the ways we'll determine is whether or not the players complain about a foul and nobody get there one foul correctly called this fourth quarter took 40 minutes it took 40 minutes now I'm zooming through the actual free throws but it took 40 minutes little zone action John T Porter hasn't said anybody that's having to shoot a three shouldn't be shooting a three right is that a fact I don't know coach said that to me once upon a time uh basically telling me to let it fly even though I was like a career 20 percent three-point shooter whatever coach had believed in me all right so we get another whistle on this play on Dennis Schroeder with D'Angelo Russell D'Angelo Russell does a classic rip-through thing that we've seen a lot of players do because um Dennis Schroeder's hand is in the cookie job I think that's actually a foul um just because his hand was on the arm and then he ripped through and caused a bunch of contact part of this and this is a conversation we've had before it's just the um the players are just too good when it comes to making it look like more contact was given than reality and because of that fouls like that and normal might not be fouls but the way the game is called it is a foul if that makes sense scottie was great in this one watch him come right here for a block christie would thought it was a a go to him but it wasn't even close and then the recovery from scottie to get two on one play this bump is one to remember right this is going to look exactly the same way as an austere's foul later in this game where there's marginal amount of contact I wouldn't call this foul either but later in the game the lakers get a call that is very similar to this amount of contact where Anthony Davis I think he played good defense scottie Barnes just gave him a bucket but that little bump that little contact we see it later that's all I'm saying here's the whistle in favor of the Raptors and this is going to be their two free throws of the game scottie Barnes gets one he missed the layup but that's that's their only shooting foul of this entire quarter and I think it's a good call so this is a foul call um and the Raptors decide to challenge it now there's some contact that scottie Barnes is faced right there he might have sold it a little bit but the foul is not on scottie Barnes it's a following menu quickly with the push in the back here so they challenged it and they lost the challenge because I do believe that quickly did give him a little shove I mean it is what it is it might not be a great little thing but that amount of contact is enough and here's the replay again from a different angle full grasp of his back small shove small shove is just enough you know especially if he goes down tumbling which anthony davis did so they're going to uphold this and this challenge was crucial because there's another play later in the game that if the Raptors hit their challenge I think there's a case for them to win this one they didn't win quickly gets called for a flagrant here that's a lot of contact obviously not intentional that's why it's only a flagrant one instead of a flagrant two but I think that's the right call I mean reddish ended up with some blood and everything like that's a hard elbow to the face um so I think that I think that's the right call this is one of the questionable plays that people are pointing out on twitter there's a pick a roll with that that believes that he was pushed a little bit by torian prince on the back end let's see it so the pass goes in there's a forearm in his back from prince as he tries to get the pass but you can say that he doesn't even have possessions just yet and it all happens so fast because that barely even comes down after the pass before the shot is on the glass like he it was one full motion now he missed it but it would be such a nice play if you made it um on the pick and roll spec but like I don't know I think I think that's a bang bang play and because it happened outside of two minutes left we'll never know whether or not that's a foul or not um and there's a swipe by RJ and it's an A1 now I think these last two and a half minutes we're gonna see a lot more instances of maybe missed calls or some bad calls this is the play I was referring to earlier where there's marginal amount of contact that that Scotty bars didn't get and also Reeves get and I think that the big problem is is that the whistle was called way late that's one of the main things this whistle was called so late that it's like were you waiting to see if the shot was gonna go in before we determine whether or not is a foul and here's a slow mo of it there's undoubtedly contact do not get me wrong and even right here you can I'm gonna see if I can pause it on the second right here Thaddeus's arm is in the basket and again also Reeves is one of the better guys when it comes to baiting Thouse he feels the contact there and he goes up immediately it's very similar to what Scotty Barnes didn't get a few minutes ago but they decide to call it like look there's the oh I'm trying to gather the ball he's got the he's got the face to prove that there was contact and they call it but again it's after the shot look look look at late that is this is one that did not look like a foul in real time when I watched it let's see if it looks like a foul the second view is going to be an offensive rebound for Max Christie he goes back up now obviously there's a swipe but I don't know if RJ even made contact with him he gets the whistle now this is within the last two minute report so we'll find out if this was the right call or not here's the replay so we get an in-depth I don't I do not think there's enough contact on that one if I'm being I don't think there's enough contact there I think Max Christie went up and he flailed a little bit and because his limbs was going this way in this way in this way that they gave him the call I don't really know if I can trust the last two minute report anymore though because after the Jaylen Brown thing from a few nights ago they said that was the right call and I think everybody else in the in the NBA world the sports world thinks that that was the wrong call but the last two minute report said it was so I just I don't know what to trust anymore we'll see these last 30 seconds take 11 minutes the last 30 seconds takes 11 minutes because of the amount of intentionally fouls and stuff like that timeouts I mean two for the Lakers one for the Raptors I think this might be the play that got a lot of people up in arms where you're going to see the pass and then the screen from RJ they call illegal and they're going to show it the replay right here obviously he was not set that's not a set screen but also on the same thing that happens in the NBA quite a bit so it's just an inconsistency with the whistle I do believe that it is a foul but is this a matter of when do you call it and when do you not because I don't watch a lot of Warriors games in the last 10 years I've seen that a lot that's all I'm saying that's all I'm saying yeah I do think it's a foul but you know it's just like when do we call it when do we not and from this point on we play the attentional foul game and from my research the last 10 free throws of the game more intentionally foul free throws right so right now the free throw disparity is two free throws the 13 free throws before we get to this point this is a foul to me this right here is a foul to me and in a one-point game you want this whistle you need this whistle right it's not a one-point game now but a finish at a one-point game we're like Max Chrissy is just too young too small Scotty Barnes there's like there's like four points of contact right there if you ask me so I think that's a foul that they missed and I don't know if the last two minute report would say that even the Lakers commentators are saying it and if you got the opposing commentator saying that oh they missed one they probably did they probably did um so I honestly do believe they missed that one at the end of this game the Raptors hit some crazy shots here's Dennis Schroeder and just just faces up and throws a high off the glass for to go in like that's a that's one of a thousand shots that went in and then I think it was Pascal I think it was Pascal to hit this shot that's like just a high probability of missing and it goes in and um it ends up being a one-point game so whether it been that last play where we believe Max Chrissy fouled or the offensive foul on the screen that you may or may not believe in there was some moments in this game where the referees got it wrong I think that's subjective but I also think that on the paper free throw disparity doesn't tell the full story of the game because the last 10 free throws again or after the Raptors decided to intentionally foul I think this is more of a case of the Raptors not getting calls versus the Lakers getting too many now we do have the also Reeves play that I think it's up for question and then the opposite of that Scottie Barnes play that wasn't called so I could see it both ways for sure it wasn't I think we can say that it wasn't a greatly officiated game Darko Ryakovich has the right idea for calling it out he's definitely gonna get fad like crazy for and this whole season I think and I talked about this on the Kenny Beeson podcast you should check it out but this whole season has been not a great one for refereeing and I'm normally not a guy that talks about refereeing because it's a it's a human job it's a human error job but sometimes it goes a little bit too far one way or another or we see some bad ejections it's just a lot of power for the refs so you let me know in the comment section what you think was the the witsu for the Raptors more strict the Lakers have a loose whistle it's up for interpretation