Rivers fumes at late call on Giannis

Bucks boss Doc Rivers criticises refs for calling a foul on Giannis Antetokounmpo with 7.3 seconds to spare.

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00:00I thought the final play was the ref blowing a call.

00:04This is back-to-back games now.

00:06We're on the final play.

00:08There's been an incorrect call made.

00:12The metal ball fell.

00:15It just fell down.

00:17Nobody was near him.

00:18Slipped on his own.

00:21We come up with the ball.

00:23The game's over.

00:25You know, so back-to-back games now,

00:28we've had a call made against us that was incorrect.

00:33We were lucky in Detroit.

00:35The kid missed two free throws.

00:37Tonight, the metal ball made the free throws.

00:42And there was clearly not a foul.

00:45Go back three plays when Giannis dunks.

00:47The whole team fouled him.

00:50The whole team fouled him.

00:52And it's a no call.

00:53Giannis drives to the basket because he's powerful.

00:57And they can hit him on the arm.

00:59They can hit him in the face.

01:00And because he keeps going,

01:02he doesn't get credit for the contact that he's creating.

01:05Giannis was in the paint.

01:07I think you were at the game, right?

01:08He was in the paint the whole night.

01:11Someone explain to me how Giannis gets one free throw.

01:17But more importantly, through all that, we played through all that,

01:20it comes down to two teams playing hard.

01:24We get the switch we wanted.

01:26We had Giannis on the metal ball, our biggest guy,

01:29one of the best defenders in the league.

01:33And we call a phantom foul.

01:36Like, these mistakes can't happen.

01:38I probably would be frustrated if this was just tonight.

01:41But now this is back-to-back nights that this has happened to us.