If you like the sound of whistles, tonight was the game for you! The Toronto Raptors hosted the Detroit Pistons in a Marc Davis showcase, one that featured more than 50 foul calls, six technical fouls, a hostile act review, and two coach’s challenges! Oh, and one of the loudest “Ref, you suck” chants you’ll ever hear outside of the postseason.
The lowlight — or highlight, if you prefer — was Nick Nurse getting tossed late in the third quarter after an egregiously bad personal foul call on Dalano Banton. Nurse had every right to be upset about the call, and frankly, every right to want to hit the showers and get the hell out of the arena — after all, his team was in the process of dropping another stinker to to Dwane Casey’s Pistons, and the constant whistles were making the game a never-ending slog.