NBA confirms Smart fouled Butler

[Billz401]

Whats funny is that the angle from behind Marcus is literally the worst one and that's the one people have been using to say he hit the elbow. There's no way to tell if his finger tips are touching the elbow or 4 inches away, you just see smarts hand overlapping his elbow. Now if you look at the overhead or even the angle from mid court you can barely see some space between his fingers and the elbow. Also does no one understand that Marcus was swiping from left to right and had he hit the elbow you would have seen it also move that direction? It was just a complete guess job by the ref who was clearly watching the ball and not the play..

[Rich]

Here's what bugs me. Why watch the ball go and miss before you call the foul?

Is it a foul? Fine, it is. But then CALL IT as soon as the foul happens. Look at this ref watching the ball PRIOR to him calling the foul. Why wait till Butler misses to make the call?



If it's a foul, call it right then and there!

This.  If it was a foul blow the whistle then - not after you see the shot didn't go in/buzzer sounded...