Sat 14th Nov - Wolves v Scorchers 7:00pm

taking a step back from the final call - I loved the way coach Newby trusted his players to do the job.
Scorchers scored and you can see the Wolves player picking the ball off the floor look to his bench for the time out to be called and is told not happening so he steps behind basket to in ball it. Great trust by the coach in his players to know what they need to do and not give the opponent the chance to talk through how to play out the next d.

My opinion only, but the call was only made because Bouwknecht lost control of the ball (the debate being what caused that to happen).  But that wasn't Cashaw.  Either Skyler tipped it (and for the benefit of balance, I could see why that might be called a foul, but generally ball deviation like that with no blatant contact is clean) or Bouwknecht lost control.  I'm pretty certain Skyler tipped it and then the question is whether it was clean or a foul in doing so.  Initially I also wondered if Bouwknecht may have started to dump off to Okiki but he wasn't.

In my opinion the ref thought Cashaw caused the issue of the ball flying off towards Walshe and called the foul for that reason.  Of course the foul doesn't have to be related to what happened with the ball (i.e. it doesn't mean a foul can't be called on Cashaw), but in my opinion that is what happened here and had Skyler not deviated the ball there would have been no call.

I reiterate that the team who deserved to win, did win. 

Scorchers finished the first three quarters in possession and failed to deliver in any.  Q1 had very little time left, but they were unaware of the game clock.  Q2 a time out followed by a full shot clock just petered out.  Q3 went nowhere ending in a turnover that Worcester scored off a split second too late.  And yes I know that technically Worcester were in possesion when the buzzer sounded in Q2 and Q3!

Cashaw was one assist off a triple double and showed a lot of promise. I'd like to see him more authorative in the big plays which is something an experienced PG often excels at.

Every Worcester player contributed very well and only MBA had a disappointing game.  McSwiggan was impressive and I loved what Johnson-Thompson brought from the bench.  If they can integrate their American's then they are a nice looking team.
   

The contact from Cashaw was so slight, i would have thought Bouwknecht hardly felt it. So yes, the softest of soft calls. By strange coincidence the group cup game at Worcester between the same teams last season ended with Tayo putting up a shot and the refs deciding the ball was on the way down and awarding the basket, giving Scorchers a 1 point win with 2 seconds remaining.

This is too simplistic! The same could be said for Hassan's technical with 3 minutes left!

Scorchers were a very poor! Your earlier post hit the nail on the head.

You're right of course - I just have a pet hate about how poor we are at FT.   We almost always shoot worse than the other team and I find it lazy and unprofessional !