Bogut: Inconsistent hard screen foul calls are 'very frustrating'

Neither team was particularly happy following Tuesday's heated affair between the Houston Rockets and Dallas Mavericks.

The Rockets took exception to "disrespectful" remarks made by Mavericks center Salah Mejri towards Rockets swingman Trevor Ariza. That dispute nearly resulted in a confrontation outside the Mavericks' locker room.

Dallas' starting center Andrew Bogut, meanwhile, didn't quite like that he picked up a flagrant-1 foul after bowling over James Harden with a rugged screen.

"They don't give me explanations anymore. I have to go appeal it through my agent and through the GM here and try to get my money back," Bogut lamented to ESPN's Tim MacMahon.

"But if you watch the replay, he made no effort to run around my screen, so obviously I turned to protect myself and hit him and he went face first into my shoulder."

The play in question occurred in the second quarter when the Rockets were starting to pull away. Harden was shaken up and stayed down momentarily, but returned a short while later to drain a pull-up three.

Bogut concedes he sets bone-crunching screens, but he takes exception to the inconsistency of the whistle.

"Yeah, it was a hard screen. I set hard screens, but to get a flagrant for it is kind of head-scratching when I feel like Justin Anderson had his wrist in a jiu-jitsu hold four plays later and that was just brushed off as a regular foul.

"You admire the effort the league's put in with Secaucus with that beautiful facility where that watch replays and watch TV and have leather chairs and all that stuff, but you scratch your head at a lot of these things. And it becomes very, very frustrating."