Knicks-Pistons Game Review: Refs' Impact and Physical Play

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00:00So, all of the crying and complaining about the refs,

00:06that game between the Knicks and Pistons was dirty the whole game.

00:10They didn't call anything.

00:11I'll tell you this much, Pharrell.

00:13It didn't start in game yesterday.

00:17It started in game one.

00:18It was game one it started.

00:21Game one.

00:21With the physical play, they have allowed this to go on.

00:26And I think this is the problem that I have, right?

00:30You can't, as a player, you've got to know that the referees honestly dictate the game.

00:36They're either going to let you play or let you not play.

00:39Jalen Brunson could have shot 429 free throws yesterday.

00:45Every time he got bumped, checked, hand checked, up the floor,

00:50cacketing, clutch, grab.

00:52Now, was it a foul on Josh Hart at the end of the game?

00:55Yeah, absolutely.

00:56But let me ask you this, Detroit,

00:57while you're sitting there crying being on three games won.

01:01Game one, game two, game four.

01:04You had the lead in the fourth quarter.

01:06I do believe double digits on all three occasions are close to double digits.

01:09And you played two of them.

01:11So, to me, instead of looking at the referee and saying,

01:15oh, they blew a call,

01:16how about you look in the mirror and say,

01:18we shouldn't have been in that spot to begin with.

01:19Now, did it take Cat to hit, you know, a Bernard King fadeaway and then a 30-foot bomb to beat you?

01:27Yes.

01:28But you had that game, 10-point game.

01:31You had Brunson knocked out a game on a cheap play by Schroeder diving for a loose ball.

01:35So, to me, this whole nonsense of, oh, the refs cost us the game.

01:40No, no, no, no.

01:41You cost yourself the game.

01:42You cost yourself game one,

01:44and you almost cost yourself game number two as well.

01:48Now that it's going back to New York,

01:50because I watched all these games the same as you,

01:53I don't have anything to add to that.

01:55I think everything you said is dead on.

01:57So, where does it go from here other than,

02:01I mean, I thought he was going to punch the ref literally at the end of the game.

02:05Is a fight going to break out in this game tomorrow night at the Garden?

02:09I don't know if Detroit can play it any more physical than they're already doing.

02:12And then, there's got to be talk to the league officers.

02:16Do we have to find a way to clean this up?

02:18Because, Pharrell, this is nothing.

02:20Are you going to screw the next now with costs?

02:23Listen, usually it happens that way, right?

02:25J.B. Pickers have complained in game one after the game.

02:28Game two, he got calls.

02:30Tips complained game two after game three.

02:32So, I would expect that you should see a decided free-throw advantage for Detroit.

02:36I still think Nick's probably winning the game.

02:38But I think the game's going to go over,

02:39because there's going to be a ton of foul calls.

02:41And watch the game early.

02:43Very rarely do games get turned on the temp by officials at halftime or during the game.

02:47It's usually right off the bat.

02:48First four or five minutes, you'll see how the tempo,

02:51how it's going to be refereed by them early on in the game.

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