“Have to keep my mouth shut”: Roth reacts to controversial no calls after close loss to the Hawks

Scott Roth has expressed his frustrations after the Tasmania JackJumpers suffered a 89-84 loss to the Illawarra Hawks on Tuesday night.

With the JackJumpers down three in the dying seconds, they looked to foul to send the Hawks to the line, but no call was made, resulting in an open Illawarra dunk to end the game.

Earlier in the fourth quarter, Will Hickey’s block on Jordon Crawford was deemed legal, which seemingly fuelled Roth’s ire post-game where he claimed he couldn’t give his full opinion.

“Crawford shoots a three and gets ran off the floor…the block was good but when you run through somebody, I don’t know, I guess that’s not a foul. You got to have a feel for what’s going on as a ref to understand that we are going to foul, and they chose not to call it,” Roth said.

“I can’t say very much, we are owned by the NBL. I have to keep my mouth as shut as I possibly can but believe me, I would love to really speak my mind but unfortunately I can’t.”

Tasmania hosts the Adelaide 36ers on Friday night at 7:30pm AEDT live on ESPN.