Video: Campazzo’s anger after an arbitration ruling that took points away

This Friday the Denver Nuggets received the Sacramento Kings, played a great game and won. Facundo Campazzo had a great performance, but he also argued strongly with the referee after he made a decision that involved him taking away points.

Of premises, The Nuggets won 121 to 111 and the Argentine started on the bench, but when he had the opportunity to enter, he showed off. Still, the discussion took place in the second quarter when he threw the ball after facing Tristan Thompson. At that time, the 30-year-old Canadian took the ball out of the ring with an illegal cap.

This type of action is known as “goaltending”, (interposition in Spanish) and what is usually done is to give the points to whoever was going to score since the rival player interfered in the trajectory of the ball when it was already descending. Even so, the referees decided to charge the other way around and take two units from the Cordovan.

At that time, Campazzo approached to claim those in charge of imparting justice and exploded in anger, which implied that they charged him with a technical foul. Meanwhile, in the transmission of the Altitud channel they expressed: “That was goaltending, it is a horrible failure of the referee”. Even so, the judges interpreted the play differently and more than one supported Facu in the claim.

Beyond this particular situation, the point guard had a great performance, played 25 minutes and signed a 6-point roster with 7 assists and 3 rebounds. Even one of his picks was classified by the NBA as the best play of the day since during the crossing he managed to generate a great duo with Jeff Green. Another of his great plays was at the end of the game when he made a counterattack that excited the entire stadium.

Those coached by Mike Malone had an effective game and the great figure of the night was Nikola Jokic, with 10 rebounds, 7 assists and 33 points (top scorer of the match).

Thanks to this result, the Denver Nuggets added 19 victories and 18 defeats, which places them in seventh position in the NBA Western Conference and seeks to qualify for the playoffs. The next game will be this Saturday from 9:00 p.m. against Oklahoma City Thunder.