DETROIT -- It would seem that there's no love lost between the Detroit Pistons and New York Knicks, who are engaged in the East's most competitive first-round series by far.
In Thursday's highly physical Game 3 -- a down-to-the-wire contest that the Knicks survived to win 118-116 and take a 2-1 lead in the best-of-seven series -- there were five technical fouls and one flagrant whistled.
But for all the angst, both clubs seemed miffed, if not downright frustrated, by a pair of odd plays that were or weren't whistled in the game's closing seconds.