NBA: Harden should been called for foul on winning shot
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Houston Rockets guard James Harden scored the winning basket during the second half in Game 3 against the Golden State Warriors, Thursday, in Houston.
HOUSTON » The NBA said today that Houston’s James Harden should have been given an offensive foul for pushing Golden State’s Andre Iguodala before his winning shot Thursday night in Game 3 of the first-round playoff series.
The Rockets trailed by a point when Harden dribbled down the court and pushed Iguodala before stepping back for the shot with 2.7 seconds left that gave Houston a 97-96 win and cut the Rockets’ series deficit to 2-1.
The finding was announced in the NBA’s report on the final two minutes. The report also found four other incorrect calls in the last two minutes, including the failure to call a foul on Golden State’s Draymond Green when he threw Michael Beasley to the ground as Houston was inbounding the ball with a second remaining.
Game 4 of the best-of-seven series is Sunday in Houston.
9 responses to “NBA: Harden should been called for foul on winning shot”
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Anyone watching the game saw him push off before his shot, that’s why the defender couldn’t block his shot. But then you have to excuse them, the Rockets had a hard enough time winning when GS didn’t have their scoring leader playing so they have to resort to this just to win a game.
that push that Harden did looked like the one Jordan did in the 1998 NBA Finals, Jordan also got away with it and won the game.
Doesn’t make it any more right. The NBA even came out and said that it should have been a foul and the warriors should have won.
I agree, they should have called a foul.
I remember that play! I thought I was the only one felt that way.
Nice headline Star-Advertiser… “should been” looking more closely at what you type…
that’s SA’s version of pigeon.lol!
Referees are so inconsistent no matter the sport and it only adds to controversies.
Shoulda/woulda/coulda.
LeBron should have been called for a double dribble before the last shot of the first quarter of today’s game.
Point is, the refs don’t see everything but do the best they can!