“Go ahead. Start the show,” Wall teased.

Then for nearly four minutes, Wall, unplugged and unapologetic, shared his brutally honest opinion on the officiating by the crew of John Goble, Mark Lindsay and Kevin Cutler.

“For one, I haven’t been saying nothing to the refs lately because I know what situation I’ve been in but the way they’ve been officiating today doesn’t make no sense,” Wall said. “To shoot 31 free throws to 16. We’re an aggressive team that attacks the basket, that don’t make no sense.”

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Wall then pointed to his right forearm as evidence of a lack of calls for the Wizards.

“I had to get this bandaged up because I’m bleeding and the ref told me ‘that’s not a foul,'” Wall said. “It’s getting out of hand. If you want us to compete at a high level like we’ve been doing – we didn’t lose this game. The refs made us lose this game. We fought hard, we gave ourselves a chance but you don’t shoot no 31 free throws to 16 the way we attack the basket as a team. That’s how I feel about it. I tried to get some (technical fouls) rescinded before, it never works for my favor. Other players have and they got it. So, all I can do is just keep my mouth shut like I’ve been doing. I could see if I would’ve got a flagrant-1 but a technical off of that? That’s outrageous.”

Also, Wall repeated an earlier claim from a Feb. 26 matchup against the Jazz that lesser players receive more calls than he does. In particular, Wall took exception to how Utah’s backup point guard Shelvin Mack drew a foul with 33 seconds remaining in the tight game.

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“I’ll give you a prime example. Look at the last play. Shelvin Mack drove and just threw the ball to somebody. That’s a foul? It’s plenty of times guys jump straight up and I never get that call,” Wall said. “It doesn’t make no sense. Certain guys are getting calls that don’t deserve it and it’s the second time me saying this. Fans can say I’m being rude or being disrespectful. I’m not. I’m just being bold with what I feel like our team should be getting credit for because we’re an aggressive team. We’re a good team and we’re not a sorry team. We’re a good team that come out and play hard every night and we deserve certain calls.”

Wall’s thoughts were echoed by teammates.

“The biggest thing is just realizing that we’re not going to get any calls and we haven’t gotten calls,” Bradley Beal said, when asked about lessons the team can take from the physical, slow-paced game. “So we need to just play. The playoffs will be super physical and I think that’s definitely something we can take out of it. They’re going to be aggressive. Fouls will be called, fouls won’t be called and we got to control what we can control.”

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Markieff Morris, who spent several moments at the end of the game on the floor after injuring his right ankle, refused to call the game ‘physical.’

“It wasn’t that physical, if you ask me,” Morris said. “These guys are not physical. This is like flag football on this side, compared to tackle on the East Coast. Every little foul on that side they get but on our side we’re being too physical, I guess.”

The Wizards expressed their most dismay for a third-quarter play that led to Wall’s technical foul. Although Wall was not originally called for a personal foul, the officials only decided to review the play after Gobert appeared to be in pain and held his groin. After several minutes of review, the lead official Goble assessed Wall with a technical foul.

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“They said it was a ‘hostile act,'” Coach Scott Brooks told reporters later, as he shook his head in disbelief. ” I’ve been around a lot of fights back when I played. Come on. ‘Hostile act?’ Really? It’s ridiculous.”

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However the technical foul appears to contradict the NBA rule book. According to Section V on Conduct: “A technical foul cannot be assessed for physical contact when the ball is alive.” The exception is for “fighting fouls” and or “taunting with physical contact,” however neither happened during the questionable play that involved Wall and Gobert.

“That’s not a ‘T,'” Brooks reiterated. “It was nothing. Like I said, it was basketball. I’ve been around John quite a bit he’s not going to hit somebody below the belt.”

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During his post-game availability, Wall answered other questions, praising the Jazz as a “good team” and Gordon Hayward as a “superstar… that deserves all the credit he (gets),” but saved his most passionate responses for his least favorite topic: officiating.

“Today I asked the ref why didn’t I get one call when I drove baseline and Gordon Hayward pushed me out of bounds, he said: ‘Well, I didn’t shoot the ball. You did,'” Wall said, but didn’t reveal the identity of the official because he couldn’t remember his name. “So I mean, they’re saying slick stuff to me but if I go tell people about it, they’re not going to believe my word over their word.