Seth Davis is a joke

[Coach Orange]

He's a duke apologist and a thinly-veiled shill.

So no surprise that he's espousing that viewpoint.

It's a dopey perspective and an interesting bait and switch--Syracuse didn't do enough, therefore the bad / inconsistent call is irrelevant.

You said it--this is a classic "red herring" or "wild goose chase" fallacy, which uses ideas/information irrelevant to the current discussion to distract from it. The easy response to Davis is: If we win the game, do you still point out Ennis's stats? No--because we would have won despite them. We were in position to tie or win the game in that moment of the call, regardless of how Ennis shot.

More to the point, does our point guard's shooting percentage change the fact that the referee made a call that affected the outcome of the game? Nope, it doesn't.