I was waiting for you to jam this in.
Hollinger just drilled them as well.
And I think he explains the situation well. It's not that the officials are going out of their way to help the Lakers, but that if they call it tight it affects the Nuggets more than the Lakers. I do think though that Pau got the benefit of some really shady calls on Nene last night, who by the way is trying really hard on defense.
Actually I like it that Simmons continuall takes shots at the Heat's 2006 le.
As we all should
I think Simmons is right about the diminished quality of officiating. And, at the same time, I think what the NBA has tried to do in terms of finding younger officials to bring some new blood to the top-levels of officiating has been part of the cause of that reduction in quality.
The league has elevated officials like Scott Foster, Mark Wunderlich, and Monty McCutchen to crew chiefs at playoff time while reducing the roles of officials like Bavetta and we seem to be headed towards a Finals that will likely see McCutchen and another youngish official join Foster, Wunderlich, and Tom Washington in the group I call Finals Officials -- the 12 officials who are "the best" and call the Finals. But I'm not sure that Foster, Wunderlich, McCutchen, Washington, Greg Willard, Bill Spooner and others in that younger group are as poised as they need to be to make the right call (objectively, not "right" in terms of what the league wants) in a big moment.
I do vehemently disagree with Simmons on the notion that game assignments are dictated by things like the need to extend a series or anything like that. There are fairly discernable patterns in the assignment of officials to games -- particularly in the later games of any series and even more particularly in the latter rounds of the playoffs. It would take amazing foresight for the league to account for particular situations that might happen down the road in creating the beginnings of the patterns that exist in the assignment of officials.
who is saying "oh lakers are the better team still, refs aside".
sons again .... it is ALL about the $$$$.
No one knows how they assign the refs. They keep the option open to change and use discretion and they probably do it because if it was patterned or pre-determined, the refs would be open to influence such as bribery or fixing.
Whether or not Simmons is making a legitimate point which IMO he is, the way I read this article it translates to, "My team got eliminated, I'm bored, so I'm going to write an article in an attempt to put an asterisk next to whoever wins the le this year."
I like Simmons but he needs to work on not sounding like a crybaby Celtic homer.
Signature...girl's name...now!
You have the best signatures.
son every pro sport has refs that are open to bribery and have been since way back in the day. its just that the NBA is much easier to detect the blatant favoritism and cheating for certain players/teams. $$$$ talks
rosa acostaSignature...girl's name...now!
You have the best signatures.
And again, with all this ref talk, it just proves that the NFL is the best run pro-league.
son the NBA has never really claimed to be a LEGIT basketball league so I guess we should cut them some slack ...the NBA is sports ENTERTAINMENT just like the WWE.
Son ur saying this just cuz ur team cant get to the finals
Refute? Refute would imply evidence, as opposed to anecdote, much like all the people who say the refereeing is biased in the Lakers favor...
The word you are looking for are "refuse to accept".
Before a series starts, I couldn't tell you who will be assigned to a particular game, but once a round is in progress, I can make a pretty accurate guess that the officials for any given game will come from a relatively small group. It's pretty clear to me how the league generally assigns officials and after several years of studying it pretty closely, I'm sure it's not an arbitrary process and I'm confident that the assignments aren't made on a results-oriented, as the series progresses basis.
I don't know man, he has stated way before this began that he though the Celtics had no chance this year, yet he was proud of them and the way they were defending the le this year, and that having just won a le he was "playing with house money for the next 5 years".
He had convinced himself that LBJ was gonna scroll to the le this year (weren't we all?) so in a way him calling out the officials even when they have favoured the Cavs means it has been really bad.
Can you tell us more?
As much as is said about the officiating, I think for the most part the best team usually wins a championship. The only exception in recent memory is, of course, 2006, when the Cheat cheated their way to a fluke bull championship.
^gets it.
Thats what she said
You mean like the brawl in detroit?
Give it a rest. We all know that the Mavs would have won if the Refs hadnt helped D-Whistle so much. Everyone knows the Mavs should have a trophy for 2006. You dont have to say it in nearly every post you make. We all know that the Heat's 2006 le is complete bull .
MAVS=2006 NBA CHAMPIONS.
We KNOW
There are currently 1 users browsing this thread. (0 members and 1 guests)
Posting Permissions
Reply With Quote
