“The referee’s close, he made the call, so I had to trust his word on it,’ Appels said. “He’s a good ref, so I just think we have to be smarter when committing fouls. The hand ball took a weird spin, so I think it was more unlucky than anything else, but we have to be smarter to give a guy a chance to get a penalty [shot].”
Source: latimes.com – Los Angeles Times