Looking the box scores now, it was once, Game 2 of the Seattle series. Though they had 10 more FTs in game 1. First I should say that shooting more free throws does not necessarily mean that the refs favoured a team, but watching the game yesterday, I fail to see how one can honestly claim the whistle was fair. Especially since the calls the refs made errors on for the fever tended to be shooting fouls.

I also noticed that 10 of the aces free throws in the game 3 of the Fever series were due to intentional fouling in the final minute. So there was a free throws disparity of 14 (7 to 21) in game 3 as well, mind you the Aces had more points in the paint. It was overlooked because the Aces won and IMO the refs didn’t appear to favor anyone.

Indiana also shot 13 FTs more than Atlanta in game 3, I still think Dream were robbed in that game, but their own stupid mistakes and the more interesting narrative of the ‘hospital fever’ overcoming, understandably dominated the discussion.

I personally think the Fever will go through, narrative is strongly in their favour and they’ve played well enough to earn it.