Lithuania reportedly filed protest to FIBA for officiating mistake in double OT loss to Germany

Lithuania filed a protest to FIBA for the officiating in game lost against Germany after two overtimes, as reported by Basketnews.

The game ended 109-107 for Germany who grabbed the third win in three games while Lithuania is still winless in the competition.

Per Basketnews, At the end of the third quarter with just over a minute to go, the head coach of the German national team, Gordon Herbert, received a technical foul but no Lithuanian player was allowed to shoot a free throw for it.

Just before the technical, Jonas Valanciunas drew Maodo Lo’s shooting foul. According to FIBA rules, the free throw for the technical foul was supposed to be shot before the two shots for the shooting foul.

However, only the two free throws for the regular foul were taken, JV missed them both and the Germans rebounded the ball.

At first, three missed free throws were recorded on the official scoresheet of the game. Later, the supposedly missed free throw for the technical foul was deleted.

"Their coach or their bench received a technical and we did not receive that shot," Lithuanian forward Mindaugas Kuzminskas said after the game. "After our coaches started protesting, the commissioner just sat there all red and did nothing."

"I don’t know, we should’ve won the game before [the overtime] just like the last two," Kuzminskas told BasketNews. "It’s tough. That one shot that we weren’t given cost us in the overtime. There’s nothing you can do now. Maybe we paid too much attention to it."

"The last time, it was Gobert. Now we don’t get a free throw for a technical foul. If these referees continue their job in the EuroBasket, I don’t even know what to say about FIBA," Lithuanian guard Marius Grigonis was furious.