The officiating has overshadowed some bad basketball and some really great finishes to start the second round of the playoffs.
I’ve never seen a finish like the last 13 seconds of Game 2 with San Antonio and Oklahoma City, where there were so many violations and missed calls, the league almost issued an apology for it.
Manu Ginobili embellished the contact from Dion Waiters on the start of the wild finish, but there shouldn’t have been contact in the first place. His reputation could’ve hurt him...
Or it was truly possible the official wasn’t looking at Waiters’ upper body, only counting off the five-seconds.