On February 5, Beijing time, the 2021-22 NBA regular season is in full swing. In today's East Focus game, the Cavaliers took on the Hornets on the road. The game was very intense, with Loew's two final-minute free throws, and the Cavaliers beat the Hornets 102:101.
It wasn't easy for the Cavaliers to win today. In the middle of the final quarter of the game, there was a very strange scene on the field, and the referee made a major mistake. The Cavaliers led the Hornets 90:80, and in a wave of attack by the Hornets, the two sides scrambled for the ball for the Cavaliers out of bounds. However, in the state of the dead ball, Rozier tried to shoot three points in the bottom corner in order to test the feel.
In the process, Cavaliers player Davis reached out on the bench to touch Rozier. However, the referee blew the Cavaliers three-point interference ball, and the Hornets added three points. Before that was all, the Cavaliers coach expressed strong resentment and ended up with a technical foul, with Rozier hitting a free throw. The Cavaliers lost 4 points during this round due to referee errors.
At the end of the game, the on-duty referee responded, and they admitted to making a mistake: it was a misjudgment of the order of events, and when we re-examined the round after the game, we found that the referee had blown the penalty out of bounds before Rozier's shot, so this three-point shot should not be counted as a score.
However, the penalty can no longer be changed. Luckily, the Cavaliers won the game in the end, and if they lost the game because of a referee misjudgment with a 10-point lead, it would be completely unacceptable for the Cavaliers.
After today's win, the Cavaliers are 4th in the East with 32 wins and 21 losses.