Wednesday, in the second game of the best of five, Indiana and Minnesota were locked in a tie game in the final minutes of the 3rd quarter at 48 apiece when #13 Lindsay Whalen of the Minnesota Lynx clearly gets hacked by an Indiana defender as she was in the act of shooting and miraculously the refs failed to make a call on the blatant foul! Whalen was then hit with a technical to make matters worse! It was as if the NFL Replacement Refs were asked to do this game instead of the usual officials…
Minnesota coach Cheryl Reeve had a few words with one of the refs and was promptly teed up as well. She took off her jacket in a rage and flung it at one of her assistant coaches and then had to be restrained. Unfortunately for coach Reeve and Minnesota, she pulled her shoulder out from the force of throwing her jacket and then Indiana, just to pour even more salt on the wound, made their free throw attempts. I mean c’mon man, how does a ref miss that call?? The only good news on the night was that the Minnesota Lynx went on to beat the Indiana Fever 83-71 to even the series at one. Here’s the video:
FANTASY FURNACE 
Emotions can be intense for these women during an WNBA game . It’s pretty safe to say that the coach (Cheryl Reeve) could have chosen to thrown her bra on court , as a sign outrage also , but she chose not to . Now what ?
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Had she done that Alan the ref would have called a ‘double’ technical…
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There’s talk that Hef wants Reeve to do a Playboy pictorial ? Thank God, because with Hef’s senility , he could have asked Roseanne Barr , which would have inflicted such pain and inhumane cruelty upon us all . LOL,LOL,LOL, !!!
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Seriously? How did the refs on the floor miss that foul??? Don’t they have 3 refs? No excuse for that. Nice job calling them out Hank.
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Thanks Jerry! Yep-three refs and no one saw this. Unbelievable!
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Sounds like those refs may have had it in for the Lynx, but they won anyway. This is one of the reasons I don’t have many positive thoughts towards referees. And the coach threw her shoulder out in the meltdown? That’s an example of “The human drama of athletic competition”.
Good find. I wasn’t paying attention to the WNBA Finals before, but I’ll be monitoring it from here on out.
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