Just following the box score -- what did Deron do??
Got called for an offensive foul with Smart playing good D on him. Should have been a no call really. But he said something to the official after the fact and got tossed for it.
why should it have been a no-call, really?
On the replay it didn't look like there was a whole lot of contact - Deron might have pushed off slightly with his off arm but it wasn't anything out of the ordinary. Smart embellished the contact and got rewarded for it.
I just rewatched it (regular speed and slow-mo) and the contact is definitely there, but it definitely looks like Smart embellished it. Probably the right call (I mean, he did hit him in the jaw with his shoulder), but I would have been fine with a no call, too
If they had called it a foul on Smart, though, I would have been mad