Casey critical of officiating, likely to be fined by NBA
Toronto Raptors head coach Dwane Casey will likely be hearing from the league office in the coming days after bringing up officiating repeatedly during postgame comments after Toronto's 99-84 Game 3 win over the Cleveland Cavaliers.
Casey began talking about center Bismack Biyombo, and referring to the fact that the Raptors have yet to take a fourth-quarter free throw in three games.
"One thing is he's getting fouled so much," Casey said of Biyombo. "I mean he's not getting the calls. We shoot zero free throws in the fourth quarter. Zero. I mean it's 73-46 in the entire three games. He's getting hit. That one play where they almost had a brawl, he gets killed on that play."
Biyombo was, however, called for a flagrant-1 on LeBron James in the fourth quarter.
Casey continued, regarding his point guard Kyle Lowry:
Casey says the first foul on Lowry was “clearly a charge,” not a block. “Some of those fouls are unbelievable.”
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