Thoughts on that last play

There were several thoughts on the Carmelo Anthony anticipated-but-not-called foul/3-pointer at the end of the game.

Antoine Wright was frustrated that there was no whistle ("I was positive a whistle was coming, just like everybody else was positive the whistle was coming and the only reasy it didn't come sooner is because (Anthony) lost the ball. I tried to hit him before he got into the shooting motion, I felt like I did, and the whistle wasn't blowing."

Jason Kidd: "The game didn't come down to that last play. We tried to take a foul, we didn't get that. You have to make plays down the stretch and we didn't get that." When asked if this game was taken away from the Mavs: "No. We lost. There's nothing taken. You either win or lose and you learn from the experience and move on."

Dirk Nowitzki: "I thought (Wright) wrapped up (Anthony) pretty good. But if there's no call, you have to play through it." On if the team let up anticipating a call. "Yeah, you can never stop playing. You have to play to the whistle. Early in the game they would've called that a foul. Felt like there were 100 free throws out there. But there was no whistle."

Thoughts, folks?

-- Tracey Myers

Comments

[MavsFan]

It's a bad call and the league won't reverse the call. They already got a hand full from the recent flagrant fouls. It's just unfortunate for Mavs, I thought they competed well and stuck to their game plan, Bass was awesome and Josh was def a warrior. Down to the last two plays, Dirk shouldn't have shot the ball like that, the move looked awful and left too much time on the clock. The difference was like 3 when they inbounded the ball. And, what are we telling our players? No whistle, keep playing! Melo did a great job on that and Wright was just...

Disappointed but Mavs have been great in the later half of the season. Looking forward to resigning Jkidd and a healthy Josh next season!