Saw something I have never seen before in all of the basketball I have watched. Cleveland goes to the free throw line with 18 seconds left trailing by two. They make first free throw and miss the second one but got a putback rebound and are now up by 1 with about 12 seconds left. HJ player dribbles to the paint and puts up a shot and is fouled with 9/10 of one second left. HJ player makes the first free throw to tie the game. As would be expected, opposing coach calls a timeout to let the HJ shooter have to think about the next free throw. Following the timeout, the Cleveland players get in their respective rebounding positions. At this time, you would expect the referee to hand the ball to the free throw shooter and proceed. Instead of doing so, referee approaches each Cleveland player consecutively and has a brief conversation with them individually.( ( 4 separate conversations) Has anybody else ever seen something like this? I will let you draw your own conclusion about what the referee was attempting to achieve. After all of those histrionics, the HJ player made the second free throw- Game over. If HJ had lost, I would not be able to make the above statement because it would strictly be viewed as sour grapes.