{"id":14106,"date":"2022-02-15T12:51:25","date_gmt":"2022-02-15T12:51:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/?p=14106"},"modified":"2022-02-15T12:51:25","modified_gmt":"2022-02-15T12:51:25","slug":"tom-thibodeau-takes-blame-for-costly-challenge-gaffe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/tom-thibodeau-takes-blame-for-costly-challenge-gaffe\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom Thibodeau takes blame for costly challenge gaffe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>Tom Thibodeau\u2019s first decision to challenge a foul call late in the fourth quarter was questionable, but his second was not even allowed \u2014 and it wound up costing the Knicks.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The veteran coach admitted having a brain cramp as the Knicks fell to the Thunder 127-123 in overtime Monday night, calling another challenge when he didn\u2019t have one left and instead burning his final timeout that he could have saved to draw up a potential game-winning play at the end of regulation.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat was my fault,\u201d Thibodeau said. \u201cI screwed that up.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Thibodeau used his second-to-last timeout with 1:07 left in the fourth quarter to challenge a foul called on Evan Fournier. The Knicks guard clearly made arm contact with Thunder rookie Josh Giddey while trying to go for a steal, so the review was unsuccessful.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><figcaption>Tom Thibodeau reacts during the Knicks\u2019 loss to the Thunder. <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Charles Wenzelberg\/New York Post<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignright\">\n\t<\/aside>\n<p>On the Thunder\u2019s next possession, Quentin Grimes was whistled for a shooting foul, which Thibodeau called a timeout to challenge again. But he did not have one to use, so the Knicks\u2019 final timeout was wasted with 39 seconds left.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Darius Bazley later tied the game at 112 with 5.5 seconds left, but the Knicks had no timeouts left to advance the ball and set up a play, leaving Julius Randle to muster a step-back jumper that didn\u2019t fall.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Thibodeau said he has someone on the bench to remind him of such things, but the safeguard didn\u2019t work.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI just lost my train of thought there for a second,\u201d Thibodeau said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tom Thibodeau\u2019s first decision to challenge a foul call late in the fourth quarter was questionable, but his second was not even allowed \u2014 and it wound up costing the Knicks.\u00a0 The veteran coach admitted having a brain cramp as the Knicks fell to the Thunder 127-123 in overtime Monday night, calling another challenge when<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14107,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175],"tags":[2596,1709,2597,1075,938,773],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14106"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14106"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14108,"href":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14106\/revisions\/14108"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nbanewsinsider.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}