00:00I think we show great restraint today here because the number one talking point on get up when they showed
00:06the highlight package this morning was the officiating was the number one talking point.
00:12And every in every town in America, every talk show host is prone to Homerism and we are no different.
00:21Everybody is prone to Homerism.
00:24However, when it is outside, I seek outside counsel, Scott, and you look for opinions that aren't rooted in Detroit.
00:37And what are other people saying about what happened last night?
00:41I think it's fair and wise of you to do that.
00:43Yep.
00:43Because they're probably saying something different.
00:46You wonder, is your team truly a victim?
00:50Or are you seeing it through?
00:53You, your colored glasses.
00:55And I say half seriously and half jokingly on this show, if we don't speak on our own behalf, who
01:00will?
01:02But there appears to be a more of a consensus that brutal calls and no calls probably cost the Pistons
01:13their best chance to win that game.
01:15It did cost the Pistons their best chance to win that game.
01:18As much as their own incompetence, as much as Cleveland's competence, officiating incompetence, the Pistons were victims of it.
01:28Ryan Russillo last night regarding James Harden.
01:31You knew it was coming.
01:32Run the shot clock down.
01:33Bend yourself in half and see if it works again.
01:37Skip Bayless.
01:38I hate quoting Skip.
01:39I'm going to do it, though.
01:40I'm going to do it.
01:41One uncalled foul at the end of regulation.
01:44One phantom foul called when Harden was trapped against the sideline.
01:49Refs up 3-2.
01:52Louis Riddick.
01:53James Harden flopping around on the ground like that after trying to con the refs into calling a foul is
01:59such an effing joke.
02:00It's so bad.
02:02As much as I love watching basketball, that S is so tiring and old.
02:08Shannon Sharp, no way could officials give Harden that call while missing an obvious trip in regulation.
02:15Football players are pissed.
02:17Football players are pissed.
02:18I don't want to make football players angry.
02:20You heard P.J. Tucker there.
02:22P.J. Tucker was a teammate of James Harden's in Philly and in Houston, I believe.
02:30They were teammates.
02:32And on Get Up, he had more to say about it.
02:35You'll hear it.
02:37That was brutal last night, okay?
02:40It was brutal.
02:41And Detroit, indeed, are victims.
02:44Shabath had the stat.
02:47The free throw disparity the last three games is 100-54.
02:52Now, Detroit fouls a lot.
02:54They do, okay?
02:55Fair enough.
02:56That's 2-1 free throws to Cleveland as opposed to Detroit.
03:00And that has happened, according to Shabath, 11 times in the NBA playoff history.
03:04But the foul disparity is 78-48.
03:09That has never happened.
03:11That's ridiculous.
03:11That's the worst ever in three games.
03:13So the message that we're getting from the NBA right now is that Detroit has just committed the greatest foul
03:21disparity in three games in NBA playoff history.
03:25Detroit is over the top.
03:27That's the message we're getting back.
03:29The other message we're getting back is flopping works.
03:35It does.
03:37I mean, it certainly works with Harden.
03:39He's been doing it his entire career.
03:41And he's got it down.
03:44It's remarkable how one can jump straight up in the air if they're behind the arc and it's contested, but
03:51land on their side every time.
03:55Every time.
03:56There was a point where Tobias Harris had five fouls last night.
04:00I think it was in overtime.
04:02And he's now one-on-one with Harden.
04:05And I'm watching and going, well, Harden's going to foul bait.
04:08He's going to get Tobias to foul out here, and that's going to suck.
04:11And he tried his damage.
04:13He's crossing over.
04:14And then he stepped back.
04:14Here goes the three.
04:15And Tobias is there, but he doesn't foul him.
04:20And Harden comes down on his side as if he was just destroyed there.
04:26For no reason.
04:28And he's looking for the foul.
04:30And I'm like, I can't believe they actually didn't call it on that one because they've been calling it all
04:35night.
04:36And Tobias gets to play the rest of this game because he could have fouled out because that guy is
04:41so unethical with his shot selection and scoring.
04:45It's unbelievable.
04:47I can't believe they allow this to happen time and time again.
04:51And then there was the rare occasion that a Piston player would complain about when they themselves are taking the
05:00shot.
05:00There's contact and nothing.
05:02Pistons get called for all the offensive fouls when it comes to trying to get through a screen.
05:08Somebody, you know, they'll have or when they're setting a screen.
05:12It was Isaiah Stewart earlier in the series or whomever later in the series.
05:16They set the pick.
05:17Struis goes down like a ton of bricks.
05:19He throws his head back.
05:20His arms go.
05:21The man bun is flying like crazy.
05:24And they automatically call foul.
05:28Pistons run into a screen.
05:30There's clear content.
05:32They get knocked away and nothing.
05:34I don't like complaining about officiating.
05:36I hate it.
05:36I hate complaining about officiating.
05:38But the disparity is insane.
05:41The numbers you just gave for the series, I'm glad you did that and did the heavy math there.
05:45I had some math myself, but yours is better.
05:47Update Kid did it.
05:48Well, I'm glad Update Kid did it because it was gross.
05:5231 of 38 from the free throw line was Cleveland last night.
05:57The Pistons were 18 of 20.
05:5926 fouls for the Pistons compared to 16 for Cleveland.
06:04You can't watch that game and tell me that that's how it should have gone.
06:09But worst of all, worst of all, is that all the foul baiting that's going on, that you're allowing Cleveland
06:17to get away with,
06:19when the last shot goes off in regulation and the rebound comes out and Asar is going to chase it
06:26down
06:26and then gets tripped, then stepped on with one leg and then the other, was it Jared Allen?
06:34It was Jared Allen.
06:35And there's no call on a clear foul at the end of regulation that would have sent Asar Thompson to
06:45the free throw line
06:46with two shots and a chance just to make one to win it.
06:49He's not the greatest free throw shooter in the world.
06:51There was no guarantee that the Pistons would have won it, but they should have had that opportunity
06:55and it was stolen from him.
06:57It was criminal last night what happened.
06:59To allow Harden to get away with what he was doing and then to just swallow the whistle, turn your
07:05back,
07:06nope, that's incidental contact.
07:08Come on.
07:09Kang?
07:10Gator, like you, and I think like everybody, no one wants to talk about officiating.
07:15No one wants to blame officiating.
07:18But you can't ignore the blatant miss call at the end of the game.
07:22And there's calls leading up to that point, too, that you've pointed out.
07:26The foul disparity in the last three games, you don't even have to watch the last three games.
07:31If you just showed me that stat, I'd be like, oh my God, the Pistons are mauling the Cavs.
07:36They must be beating them down with their elbows.
07:39Are they, you know, body slamming them?
07:41No.
07:42A shank?
07:42Yeah, no one sees that during the series.
07:44But then you look at the free throws, you're like, oh my God, why are they getting so called for
07:47so many fouls?
07:49I hate doing this.
07:51But it is like Detroit versus everybody.
07:53It is.
07:54Go back to game four of last year against the Knicks when Tim Hardaway got clearly fouled in the corner.
07:59This happened to our, this has happened last year!
08:02And it's happening again!
08:04That, by the way, Assar Thompson dribbled the ball twice.
08:07At least once, if not twice.
08:08He had possession.
08:09You cannot trip a man when he's dribbling up the court.
08:12Incidental or not, that's a foul.
08:14Clear as day.
08:16Jenna Schroeder launched himself into the front, to the baseline at one point, and they called a foul.
08:20We found the Schroeder play where he is, I mean, he just, it looked like he fell off a surfboard.
08:27It looked like, it looked like Uncle Phil threw Jazzy Jeff out of the house.
08:32It did!
08:33That's what Schroeder, like, are you kidding?
08:35All Assar Thompson did was move his feet.
08:37And by the way, I do want to go back to, I think the Pistons lost the game when they
08:41couldn't hold on to the lead with three minutes left.
08:43We opened with that for a reason.
08:46But, aiding in their loss was how the foul calls were going against them and not for them.
08:52Do you remember how the Cavs tied the game, Gator?
08:56It was on two free throws from Evan Mobley on a bullcrap call on Tobias Harris.
09:03That was the softest call ever.
09:04And you want to talk about, don't let the refs decide the game.
09:06That was within a minute of the game left, and he called a foul on that.
09:10And by the way, just to go back to the screen things, you bring up the screens.
09:13Sam Merrill doesn't know how to set a screen without hugging a guy.
09:16Are they going to call that ever?
09:18I don't know.
09:18He just literally just hugs a dude.
09:19I said it yesterday.
09:20These guys are literally hugging players on the floor, and nothing's happening.
09:24And it's all so annoying.
09:26And when you watch, like, Harden has this reaction.
09:29It's like that involuntary reaction you have when you're just hanging out,
09:33and then you feel like some bug drop on your back, and you go,
09:36He shoots the ball and does that every time.
09:43I don't know why the officials want to look so stupid.
09:47Well, like, how stupid do you really want to look?
09:49Because allowing this to happen...
09:51It's embarrassing.
09:52It is.
09:53And I do not...
09:54I want to say this for the record,
09:56and I've decided that I've planted the flag here.
10:01And...
10:01Because Kang put me in a...
10:03In a moracle...
10:04A moracle.
10:05A moral and ethical...
10:06He put me in a moral and ethical...
10:08I love the word.
10:09We got a new word.
10:10It's a moracle situation.
10:13I do not want the Pistons to capitulate and start flopping.
10:18I don't.
10:19I don't.
10:20When Struz stripped the ball of Cade in overtime,
10:23it's a great play by Struz.
10:24All Cade had to do was flop.
10:26All he had to do was flop.
10:28I feel like if I'm J.B. Bickerstaff,
10:30I'm going to talk to the officials before the game,
10:31and I'm going to say,
10:32Look,
10:34we certainly hope you call a fair game here,
10:36but if we see that they're getting rewarded for their flopping,
10:41I'm going to tell my guys to be demonstrative
10:42when there's any contact whatsoever.
10:45Now, we're not going to fake like nobody was touched,
10:48but when there is contact,
10:49you're going to know about it.
10:50If that's what it takes,
10:51if that's what we have to do to even things up,
10:53we'll do it.
10:54We don't want to do it
10:57because we're a morocally developed basketball team.
11:03All right.
11:04We held off.
11:05We held off,
11:06but it's not a Detroit topic.
11:10It was a nationwide topic.
11:13And yes,
11:13they should have closed things out with a nine-point lead.
11:16No question.
11:17Two minutes and something seconds left to go.
11:19They need to focus on fixing offensive,
11:22better offensive sets at the end of games
11:24when Cade's getting double teamed,
11:26when Duncan Robinson isn't on the floor.
11:30We will talk to the people next.
11:32Carson Anderson, 97-1.
11:33We'll talk to the people next l нов乳ase.
11:33Final村, 554-00,000.
11:33Appreciate you.
11:33Yeah.
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