This refereeing - honestly, I feel like I'm dreaming, this is so surreally bad...
I'm not a conspiracy theorist at all, but that Salvatore call on Pierce sincerely makes me question whether or not the league, or most likely him, is involved in some behind-the-scenes stuff. Honestly, if he'd called a travel, I'd've complained, but I would understand the call. There was NOTHING indicating an offensive foul in that situation.
The only non-conspiracy thing I can think of is that was a veteran's response to the league for calling out the refs on the Fisher foul. Basically if a ref with a big ego gets annoyed and says "that could be called on the offensive player just as easily for initiating the contact" and then enforces it that way at the next opportunity. But that's clearly a horrible call, one of the worst I've ever seen.
Despite that, we're still in this...let's beat all 8 of these punks...