Josh Hart was in disbelief.

Mike Brown decide to finally call for a challenge when up by 48pts.
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  1. He is genuinely so bad at challenges. He regularly chooses to challenge calls where it’s a 50/50, but refuses to challenge calls where we would have like a 95% chance of being successful

  2. I viewed this similarly to how I viewed the rest of the game; “ok, I’m gonna try now.” I think when you don’t challenge calls, the players feel like you don’t have their backs.

  3. If this means he’s going to actually use them more often I’m fine with it. It did seem like he was also starting to work the refs some more recently as well.

    Wonder if he’s come to the realization that players are getting pissed that they can’t argue with the ref and no one is doing it from the bench so we’re just ceding any sort of bad call or lopsided whistle.

  4. Did we fire the guy responsible for telling thibs to challenge calls last season? There was a play against the mavs in the 4th where the challenge guy in the second row called for the challenge like 2 seconds too late. Brown tried to challenge but was ignored.

  5. Stark difference with challenges compared to last year. Thibs never hesitated to use one early if the replay guy gave him the signal. This year brown never ever uses it early. Instead saves it until late when the game is already lost or it’s not going to get overturned.

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