Tyrese Maxey's heroic end to the match flirted with reality and also a little with the rules… In his usual report on the last two minutes of Game 5 between Knicks and Sixers, the NBA thus recognized several failures in terms of arbitration. And in particular on an action signed Tyrese Maxey.
With 25 seconds left, the Philly leader signed a crazy 4-point action, converting a winning basket while getting a foul from Mitchell Robinson. But after analyzing the replays, the NBA judged that there were steps from the Sixers' rear, and maybe even two.
First when he comes out of the dribble, with his three steps before stopping. Then, just before shooting in front of Mitchell Robinson, he seems to have changed his pivot foot. This gesture was very important since Tyrese Maxey will then follow up with a new award-winning basket in the process to snatch extra time.
The Knicks should have had a final possession…
Three other decisions were deemed incorrect by the league: There should have been 0.4 seconds left in regulation time with the ball for the Knicks, after Nicolas Batum's block on Jalen Brunson's potentially decisive shot out of bounds (the timer had expired, sending the game into overtime).
In this overtime, Jalen Brunson should have been penalized for an offensive foul on an action that turned into a flagrant foul by Joel Embiid for hitting the point guard in the head. Finally, Josh Hart was not out of bounds with 41.5 seconds left in the game.
In the end, throughout this tough and physical series, the errors of the officials are generally balanced out since Philadelphia's miracle in Game 5 is the response to Game 2, during which numerous refereeing errors were noted. in favor of New York.
Both teams came back from deficits of at least five points in the final 30 seconds of regulation to win a game in this series. This had only happened three times in the last 25 years before these playoffs, and it happened twice in the same room in the last ten days.
