First things first. So, as I said in a previous post about game 2, I think Miami was slightly better than OKC in the key moments and that's why they deserved the win.
But that said, in very specific moments of the match the refering was a joke. The 1st (a ridiculous slightly contact called as offensive foul) and 4th fouls of Durant are simply unexistant. There's no way Lebron or Wade are whistled an offensive foul against them.
But probably what strike me the most happened in the last minutes:
- Wade does an acrobatic drive and scores, and gets the "and one", and in the TV replay you can see absolutely no one touches him. Sefolosha is awarded the foul.
- Some plays later, Sefolosha steals the ball to Wade and does the quick counter, and it should have definitely have been an "and one" because Wade clearly fouls him. Some OKC players even watch the referees not believing it, as I did from my couch. I mean, precisely compared to the previous play, it seems a joke, isn't it?
- The ball goes to Westbrook in the last minute, and throws and misses the 3 pointer. Nothing wrong there... Nothing? Wait, see the TV replay, and Spoelstra is INSIDE the pitch, more than one meter inside the pitch, just in the plain line of sight of the referee WHILE Westbrook receives and shoots. According to the rules in this sport, it's technical foul. The bloody ref is just in front of Spoelstra and simply moves the arms like saying "get off man, they are playing!". Considering Brooks was awarded a technical foul for asking for a foul in the first quarter, it's a bit scandalous how both coaches are treated in comparison.
- And the final foul of Harden to Lebron? That's nothing of a defensive foul. In fact, it's exactly the same play that costed Durant his first offensive foul. Exactly the same. I don't like this kind of "easy" and "popular" decisions.
So, I know it was not due to the referees specifically, but in every match there are just too many of this contradictions, and most of them with the same direction. Durant and Westbrook are tired of driving in and not getting any foul, so they end up doing jumpers from mid range.
As I said many many times, I'm not saying that the referees are deciding the match, but they're being a bit laughalble in some aspects (as they have always been in the finals, mind you. Other years we have seen worse, specially when the Lakers got all the referee favours back in the 2000s).
Man, I'm good.
