After last night’s tough loss to the Utah Jazz, there was a lot of vitriol being directed at the officials for their performance down the stretch. In particular, Kings fans were incensed when veteran official Ken Mauer called a 5 second inbounding violation on Sacramento instead of granting Arron Afflalo a timeout. Mauer seemed to count a very quick five seconds, but unfortunately none of that was reviewable and it cost the Kings a big possession.
Today, the NBA released their last two minute report for last night’s game and lo and behold, they’ve confirmed many of our suspicions that Mauer whistled the violation too early.