I have no argument with the foul call at the end. He contacted Guy's lower body while he was still holding the ball and affected the shot. Under the circumstances I think it was a correct and courageous call, but had the zebras been watching Jerome, and who else do you watch in those circumstances, the game is effectively over.
Why have video review if you aren't going to use it for the obvious and the egregious? You see traveling called and not called in the lane when there are many feet and lots of body contact, you see anticipatory fouls called on clean blocks in high traffic situations and I understand how those can be missed. But in the last two minutes of the game they will examine the video tape as though it were a new found Rosetta Stone to try and determine who touched the ball last on an out of bounds play. If you can't tell in the first thirty seconds then you don't have enough evidence to overturn. Yet, something in the middle of the floor and far more obvious than the mysterious anchor punch in the second Ali-Liston fight, and crickets are heard.
One last thing, given the rampant ungoverned steroid use in baseball during the ascendancy of McQwire, Bonds, etc. Hank Aaron is still my all time home run king.
I hate to rant about this but after the Saints/Rams fiasco and dozens of other questionable judgement calls in all sports, it really irks me when something as obvious as this goes uncalled, particularly when it has such a significant impact.
Yes, credit to Guy for making the free throws, but how would we feel if a major championship was decided by a similar error like a guy grounding his club in sand which he thought was a waste area but was visually indistinguishable from a bunker....or if the USGA waited for two hours to inform someone of a questionable two stroke penalty for causing his ball to move (hmm using that example we could reboot the Auburn/Virginia game with 1.5 seconds left and see if Virginia can prevent Auburn from running out the clock).
In my skewed world I'll offer a few examples. The Patriots won't have won the last Super Bowl until they play the Saints, Virginia will never be national champs this year even if they beat Texas Tech, and in fact I'll be sitting by the TV waiting for Auburn and Texas Tech to take the floor to decide this years Final Four. Galarraga pitched a perfect game, etc. I guess if Virginia wins Monday I'll continue to annoy people by referring to it as the 2019 NCAA Final Four Shampionship
Officiating is damned difficult and I do applaud the efforts to help them out with video review, but you really to have use it to correct the blatantly obvious rules violations and not niggle endlessly over judgement calls that aren't immediately reversible.
Over and out from this lunatic's habitat.