On January 20, Beijing time, the NBA regular season continued, and in a game that has ended, the Nets narrowly defeated the Wizards 119-118 to avoid two consecutive losses. Although Irving was able to play in this game, the Nets still had a large number of players absent, and the season has been in the middle of the season, and the Nets have not gotten rid of the dilemma of uneven lineup. On the other hand, the Wizards, after sending away Wei Shao, once ranked first in the East at the beginning of the season, but as the season progressed, the tepid record gradually returned to the regular level, and the current record of 23 wins and 22 losses ranked eighth in the East.
In the first three and a half quarters of this game, the Nets have always held the advantage of the score with the play of Irving and Ade, but in the second half of the fourth quarter, the Wizards slowly forced the score closer, if it were not for the last round Kuzma and Dinwiddie's consecutive missed kill opportunities, the Wizards almost completed the reversal. Although it was just an ordinary regular season game, there was a bizarre scene in this game, when there were 5 minutes and 45 seconds left in the fourth quarter of the game, the Wizards made a pass error between the players on the sideline, but after replay, the mistake was disturbed.
At the time of the game, Dinwiddie passed the ball to Kuzma on the bottom line, and according to the replay, Kuzma was about to receive the ball when the Nets' assistant coach on the sideline reached out and touched the ball, thus changing the trajectory of the ball, and then the Nets player got the ball. After this scene, Dinwiddie and Kuzma signaled to the referee, but the referee on duty did not show any indication. After the game, Wizards player Kuzma angrily said of the round: "That's bullshit! The Wizards' acting head coach was even more frustrated: "I've never seen anything like this. ”
As a result of the round being slapped straight, the Wizards reporter launched an interview with the game's referee Ben Taylor about the matter, who said: "I and I did not find any deviation in the trajectory of the ball at the same time, considering that the game was not suspended at that time, so there was no mechanism to review the ball." Although the NBA has added a head coach's challenge function this season, the Wizards were unable to use the challenge function to allow the referee to retry the round because the referee did not whistle during this round.
As one of the most professional sports leagues in the world, it is still very shocking to have such a scene in the game, first of all, from the perspective of this ball, the Nets sideline assistant coach reaches out to touch the ball to interfere with the passing of the opposing player, resulting in the other side's mistake, which is a very outrageous thing in itself, if on the football field, the assistant coach may even be sent off by a red card. What is even more outrageous is that such an obvious scene, the referee's perspective at the time is also very clear, why did not find and whistle, which not only destroyed the fairness of the game, but also made the Nets assistant coach escape the disaster, this scene can be called the NBA's biggest missed judgment after "brave out of bounds".