It hurts losing a game. It really hurts when you lose a championship. Especially when it feels like the referees took a chance away from you.
Minnesota Lynx coach Cheryl Reeve was incensed when her team lost to the Los Angeles Sparks because the referees didn’t review a shot clock violation that they blatantly missed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOLQZOPVYLw
According to the WNBA itself, Reeve does have a point. The league released a statement Friday admitted the call was botched and that the refs were wrong.
Here is the statement from the league:
“After reviewing postgame video, we have determined that Nneka Ogwumike’s shot with 1:14 remaining in regulation time should not have counted due to a shot-clock violation, and that the referees improperly failed to review the play under the instant replay rules.”
View the play in question here.
The half-baked admittance that they screwed this up doesn’t do too much to help the Lynx. The WNBA can’t walk back the result of the game and they can’t replay it, so what is the league to do and how are the Lynx players and coaches supposed to react?
The Sparks may have ended up being the better team at the end of the day, yet it doesn’t change the fact that if you’re a Lynx fan that this play will be engrained in your brain for a long, long time.
[WNBA]
