The opening bell rings, and everyone on the team realizes that they're still "just some backwater yokel" . The ref blows the whistle for a foul on Tosada, and the ref allows the ball to slide. Everyone is so excited that they can't believe that the ref let the ball slide. They're so excited, in fact, that they think they've just been "chewed out in practice" by the ref. They think that this is the way the ref plans to punish them.