Wowuch! This one is bad and it may have cost Detroit game 5 and the series. Late in the first quarter of tonight’s pivital game 5 in Auburn Hills, the usually cool and even-tempered Antonio McDyess came down with a hard foul on Cavs forward Anderson Varejao as he received a pass slashing to the basket. A skirmish ensued and LaBron James was hit with a technical foul for going after McDyess. Fortunately no players from either bench left the bench area, because then we’d be looking at another ugly ‘bench area’ situation. Instead, we got a meeting of the refs at mid-court discussing what Doug Collins and Marv Albert figured was about whether or not it was going to be called a flagrant foul or not. Replays showed McDyess getting his hand on the ball, but then not letting go in time and he ended up clothes-lining Varejao who went to floor hard. The verdict was instead a flagrant-2, which calls for immediate ejection. Later, LeBron James went to work scoring the last 25 points and leading the Cavs to a 2-OT vistory. Detroit’s defense couldn’t stop James and McDyess certainly could have helped.
