NBA Finals: Game 1 Durant End of Game Drive/Shot

[Camron Rust]

Originally Posted by canuckrefguy

My thoughts as well - I believe the NBA guys go by the idea that if the "guy in the 50th row" can't see the foul, you probably shouldn't be making that call. Nothing prevented Durant from getting a clean shot away.

Is that the 50th row on the sideline or the endline?

You really shouldn't miss the ones the guy in the 50th row can see...but any official with a backbone will call a foul that deserves to be called when he sees it even if it means he is the only one to have seen it.

Once, I had a coach quite vigorously disagree with a foul I called. He called me a couple days later (on an unrelated topic) but brought up the play and aplogiezed. He watch the film and then saw the foul. Not every foul is obvious all the time form every angle.