GAME 2 Playoffs 2024: Dallas Mavericks (0-1) vs. Los Angeles Clippers (1-0)

[The Jom]

https://www.nba.com/stats/events?CFID=&CFPARAMS=&GameEventID=501&GameID=0042300172&Season=2023-24&flag=1&title=Green%20S.FOUL%20(P3.PN)%20(K.Scott)

Harden isn't jumping forward and Green moves a little bit too much into him. Don't like those kind of calls but that's a foul based on the current interpretation of the rules.

https://www.nba.com/stats/events?CFID=&CFPARAMS=&GameEventID=247&GameID=0042300171&Season=2023-24&flag=1&title=Kleber%20S.FOUL%20(P2.T4)%20(D.Guthrie)

In contrast we have this call from game one that should have been an offensive foul on Harden. He kicks out his leg and creates the contact.

That’s the wrong angle on the Green non-foul. Maybe you were watching the national broadcast and they didn’t replay it from behind the shooter? On the local broadcast they did, and you see separation between the bodies the entire play, including the landing, except that Harden kicks one leg out obviously, and the sole of his shoe grazes Green just below the knee. 

Agree that your link looks like a foul. Agree that the ref from whatever angle he had might have reasonably believed it was a foul. There were way worse calls and non-calls in the game. 

I’m just trying to defend Green here. This thread called it a dumb foul. It wasn’t. It was terrific defense and not a foul.

Edit: Here’s an angle I hadn’t seen. https://www.reddit.com/r/nba/comments/1c...ree_point/