Casey Blasts Officials

After his team suffered a one point loss at the hand of the Atlanta Hawks, Raptors head coach Dwane Casey expressed his anger towards the officiating.  Casey was upset at a no call that would have potentially given the Raptors a chance at game winning free throws during the closing seconds of the game.

“I’m tired of losing games because of missed calls at the end of games. I know the league is going to come down on me, but I don’t care,” said Casey, “These guys have fought their hearts out, played their hearts out and at the end of the game, we get cracked, (league sends out an) apology, go back to Canada. I’ve been in this league 18 years and I’ve never seen so many missed calls at the end of the game to cost us the game. We’ve got great officials in this league, and too good to miss calls and short-change young men like this. It’s not right. I watched the replay three or four times, hoping that they (somehow made the right call) but they didn’t.....This is fourth time this year that we’ve been in this situation … Clearly DeMar DeRozan was cracked on that last play. Make him go to the line and make two free throws.”