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The officiating in the NBA is reaching an all time low thanks to David Stern.This guy is supposed to be very smart having graduated Columbia Law.Why do we see so many stupid rules then in the NBA?
Todays game is a perfect example.Not only did the refs not make a call on the first foul, they let 2 seconds run off the clock.Rules are supposed to make the game as fair as possible.What is fair in costing the spurs 3 points and 2 seconds.Its re ed to have a rule saying the officials cant review the tape if they didn't see the malfuntion.If someone complains about it, they should review it.We saw the same thing during the houston game.
We all understand that refs are humans and thats why you have 3 on the floor.when all 3 make the same mistake that means 3 is not enough.The NBA should have 4 refs on the floor with one watching the clock at all times..Also the NBA should fine the refs if they continue to make horrible calls like this or fire them.Its not fun watching the a game that's unfair.
This same officiating cost the spurs the le in 2004 with fishers 0.4 sec shot.Explain to me Stern how a person can catch a ball turn around and release in 0.4 sec.
I'm tired of stern and i really think he needs to get fired.the NBA is not a dictatorship where the guy in charge stays forever.this is retatrded.the guy stern is preparing to take over is his student and will likely be as bad.
Also i really believe that the NBA fixes some games to maximise profit.There is more than enough evidence to support that but I dont understand why everyone is blind or scared of doing something.
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I'm not saying that the games are fixed by refs. However, Henry Hill (I think that's his name), the guy the movie Goodfellas is based on, said he had refs in his back pocket for years back in the 70s.
He claims he had refs fix games and point spreads on numerous occasions. If these allegations are true, what does that do to affect the image of the terrible officiating people are seeing on a nightly basis in some games?
Paul anticipated contact, went up with the shot, and got hit. Sucks, but he was absolutely in the middle of a shot when Manu fouled him and therefore giving him three shots was the right call. I think Stern's a tremendous commisioner also. He has ensured small markets can compete (unlike baseball) while at the same time not creating a league of bland parity (like you saw in the NFL a few years ago).
Lebron tried that trick earlier in the year. He knew Ben Wallace was about to get fouled and jacked up a three from way behing the line right as the foul was about to happen and hit it.
The refs just smiled at waved it off because it was a BS play and shouldn't have been rewarded. Lebron smiled like he knew he had to at least try it.
That ref crew knew that you can't bail out a player for trying something like that.
This ref crew must not have got the memo.
There is a precendent here (with Lebron) and tonight's crew ignored it and created their own precedent at the same time.
Was LeBron actually in the air at the time though? If I remember correctly, Paul was.
Yeah, but Paul was fouled twice in the backcourt and the refs didn't call it.
you might be right about the fact that he helped small markte teams develop but there are a bunch of rules that are so unfair and need to change.they should also have a committee that reviews the refs as suggested during the trail of tim donaghy.the refs are too inconsisten. the nba is probably the most watched american sport abroad.the way the refs are officiating as of late is a dsgrace.
I remember Parker fouling him, but I can see that not being called as Paul did a of a job sliding between Tony and the other player in the backcourt (can't remember who it was right off-hand).
The NBA does have the worst refs of any sport. At least in the NFL, the refs own up to their mistakes and apologize when they suck. Baseball and hockey do that sometimes too. The refs in the NBA rarely ever admit their mistakes or own up to their errors and mistakes. I think NBA fans would not hate refs so much if they would just admit when they make mistakes and when they're wrong. For example, if the refs would have admitted that they had made mistakes in the 2002 WCF, the 2006 Finals, and the 2nd round series between the Spurs and Suns in 2007 then fans wouldn't be so hostile toward them and not hate them so much.
You forgot the 2006 second round.
Lebron was in the act of shooting when he saw the foul coming. It was the first thing I thought of when the Paul play happened and the reason I was so surprised that they awarded him three shots. By that logic, Lebron should have gotten rewarded for it too. In fact, didn't someone else do the same thing earlier in the Spurs/Hornets game on an intentional foul and it was waved off? I'd go back and look but I already erased the game.
Didn't he drill the shot too? I'm fuzzy on that one, but I do remember him timing the foul so he was in the act of shooting a 3 when it was called. By technicality of the rule, the Cavs should have been rewarded 3 FTs or the 4 point play (if Lebron had made the shot).Lebron was in the act of shooting when he saw the foul coming. It was the first thing I thought of when the Paul play happened and the reason I was so surprised that they awarded him three shots. By that logic, Lebron should have gotten rewarded for it too. In fact, didn't someone else do the same thing earlier in the Spurs/Hornets game on an intentional foul and it was waved off? I'd go back and look but I already erased the game.
Everyone knows it was a bad call plain and simple. That issue comes up many times in many games and it never gets called. Yet somehow the call was made last night?
I'm not claiming a fix BTW (the Henry Hill stuff was just food for thought), but rather saying that the officiating crew is incompetent. More and more fans are starting to agree.
A San Antonio writer even suggested that Mark Cuban (gulp) might be on to something about the refs.
When you get Spurs fans looking to Cuban as a leader in any fight, you know something is off.
Apply the broken clock rule to Mark Cuban; he only complains about officiating when his team is on the losing end, despite all his public statements about how he's looking out for the good of the league. Officiating was a hundred times better before he came along.
yeah mark is a little whiny
The NBA is without a doubt the worst officiated Sport known to mankind.
For 150k-300k a year, I guarantee you I could do a better job.
No surprises here. In 2006 David Stern said Im gonna destroy a certain players legacy, ruin a dream he's put over a decade of work into, and reward an unworthy team with an NBA championship just to market a primadonna wheelchair superstar with the most biased officiating in the history of man.
That player was Dirk Nowitzki, that team was the Miami Cheat, and that superstar was D-Whistle the primadonna wheelchair who is a sex addict and doesn't deserve his ring.
David Stern's play to make D-Wade the next Michael Jordan was an epic fail. Wade hasn't done anything since the 2006 Finals. He got swept in the 1st round in 2007, and didn't even make the playoffs in 2008. And this year, his team probably won't get any higher than 5th place in the East.
Your 2006 champions!
The mavs....
Other than FIBA or MLB or the NFL, I certainly can't think of any that are worse.
boohoo the ing mavericks didnt deserve it, how conveient that you guys dont mention that tainted '06 spurs-mavs series...thatw as the worst most biased officiating ive ever seen. you guys claim the league screwed you in favor of MIAMI HOT DWADE, well, i beleive it, because that year there was CLEAR tampering by the league. not only did they help DWADE in the finals, but they most certainly helped you guys dispatch 'the damn rating killing spurs'.
never in the history of the NBA has a perimeter jump shooter gone to the line as much as Dirk did that series. its was bull , you couldnt look at him without getting a whistle. every single time the spurs got a lead they just put dirk on the line for automatic free points until they were back in it.
Are Spurs fans really still that upset over the CP foul? I don't see what he did as being any worse than this:
he's lookin at that trophy like he wants to give it herpes.
I was expecting this to be a Ghazi thread.
i was by far the best player ever at NBA Jam, i was completely unstoppable.
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