No. Good piece of officiating, as the reason he slammed it was he was mad at himself. The call that he slammed it on was a call for Memphis.

A rule in the book is the same no matter if it is in the first minute or the last minute of the game. If a foul is called 70ft from the basket in the 1st minute then it is still a foul in the last minute. Some say that the players should decide the game in the last minutes, so if there is a foul committed isn't that in the players decision. Blow the whistle there is no such thing as a No Call in the rule book. If I were a Ref I would make the call, one team is going to be mad one way or the other. If somebody is going to be mad at me I want to have made the right call.

I didn't think that he ever committed a foul.... Ever...:lol:

 

Did he play for Duke??? :laugh:

No. Good piece of officiating, as the reason he slammed it was he was mad at himself. The call that he slammed it on was a call for Memphis.

 

The fact is that he slammed the ball and he made it obvious. Slamming the ball down is a "T", plain and simple. I don't think that it matters who he was mad at, even if it was at himself.

His slamming the ball drew attention to himself and that act (slamming the ball).

This, as I said wasn't a question as to whether or not he slammed that ball down, was obvious and the ball went pretty high in the air causing attention to be drawn to that act.

Not in this setting. You don't want to make a call like that during the end of the NCAA Championship game. It has to be 100% clear it was a technical, and by juding by the people who have said "No," it was not that clear.