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I think officials have forgotten how to ref big men playing big man ball in the paint. It is so rare in the NBA these days.
When Scott Foster officiates, bad things happen. I called bad officiating when I saw him come on to the court.
I think officials have forgotten how to ref big men playing big man ball in the paint. It is so rare in the NBA these days.
Yup, Pop saw that the ref-ing was and decided to overwrite it and just send them to the line instead of playing out a whole possession and letting the refs send the better free throw shooters to the line instead. Good call tbh never have I agreed more with his hack-a-player strategy
Refs were also bad when they knew Spurs were intentionally fouling and ignored one that caused the Spurs to give up a late game layup.
Scott Foster, Karl Lane, Leroy Richardson
He got a technical for literally no reason
The Rockets are done. Not that they didn't somewhat know this already, but the other 7 playoff teams just saw the blueprint for negating Harden. I expect a lot of "jar a Josh", "hack a Howard", "dis a Dorsey" from whoever the Rockets meet in the playoffs.
Any word on if Aron Baynes is filing assault charges against Dwight Howard? Because some of those non-calls probably qualify...
Yeah. That one went mostly unmentioned. This game was interesting for all of these nuances. Heck of a game. Rockets got plenty of chances and help. So sorry.
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Jesus christ these were terrible calls
2 bull fouls were called on timmy. One was when howard initiated contact in the paint with pushing, the other was when Harden's pussy ass flopped on a screen
Tim got a 5 second call a few days ago. I don't know if I've ever seen that called. Meanwhile Perkins is taking 9 steps with the ball and nary a whistle. Shows you where the focus is. No one wants to see another SA/Lebron debacle where Lebron is once again embarrassed by team basketball. The NBA is about heroball, and they are even trying to change the meaning of the word "heroball". NBA is about individuals, not about teams, at least not small market teams. That's why there are so many individual awards and only a couple team awards.
Baynes was destroying the Rockets, refs remove him from match to get a close ending.
It was the worst officiated game of the season. Some terrible calls both ways
I yelled when that happened!
This. It's something I've been thinking about for awhile. There were a couple OT games this season that could've been won with better officiating. Last night was just a travesty though. Pop and the team deserve so much credit for the W. Scott Forster was probably like "sir I did my best" afterwards.
think how the Cavs got a few number 1 picks, against so much odds. I imagine the league would like a return on that investment, not just for the Cavs and Cleveland but Lebron's legacy. Spurs could beat Lebron's newest superteam. Of course if that happens ClipperNation will be like "it's never Lebron's fault".
i bet the league wants a Warriors/Cavs final. I hope Spurs can overcome whatever bull they try pushing. Last night was a good test though.
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Worst I've seen all year. That tech
No kidding that had to be the worst calls I have seen in any game they really should be looked at by the NBA.
I think the league meddles. They meddled by giving Davis to New Orleans at just the right moment, by keeping Chris Paul out of LA so that Balmer could buy a team that's worth something (I think Sterling was set up). The league wants big market teams to make big money. all teams want that in fact since they share profits, but it eventually has to come down to meddling with the games themselves and issuing suspensions and fines that are head scratchers from our perspective but from theirs are business decisions. Fining the Spurs 250K for resting guys when the entire league did that this year and no one got a fine... that's meddling in how a coach manages his roster. Calling a timeout to see if Allen's shot was a 3 or a 2 was meddling because it didn't allow the Spurs to break the other direction, gave the Heat a needed timeout without having possession of the ball. Calling fouls on what the world can see is a flop from every direction, yet ignoring contact that requires s ches with the "didn't see it" gesture when the ref was right under the backboard.. that kind of thing is close enough to almost be indiscernible from statistical noise, but it's the small margins that make the big differences in the end.This. It's something I've been thinking about for awhile. There were a couple OT games this season that could've been won with better officiating. Last night was just a travesty though. Pop and the team deserve so much credit for the W. Scott Forster was probably like "sir I did my best" afterwards.
think how the Cavs got a few number 1 picks, against so much odds. I imagine the league would like a return on that investment, not just for the Cavs and Cleveland but Lebron's legacy. Spurs could beat Lebron's newest superteam. Of course if that happens ClipperNation will be like "it's never Lebron's fault
i bet the league wants a Warriors/Cavs final. I hope Spurs can overcome whatever bull they try pushing. Last night was a good test though.
All that said, I don't think the league has ever gotten what it wanted in the Finals in a long time. Sure they love it when the Lakers play in the Finals, but its almost always against a nobody from the East. The Lakers/Boston series (x2) was probably orgasmic to the league front office. Had they gotten Kobe and Lebron, they'd have probably needed a nut transplant.
Silver will stand up and talk about how the Spurs play the game how it was meant to be played, but then the NBA propaganda is always about highlight reel material and superstars who never won and obviously don't play the game how it's meant to be played.
That made me unreasonably angry. It was just after and turtle got was much more animated in ripping the ball from Marco with two hands. How the refs make that call once and then not again I do not know.
The whole sequence where Baynes and Howard were going at it was disgusting refereeing. Bull happening both ways but the calls they did make were almost always wrong and the ones they didn't call were probably the right ones. Couldn't have got it more wrong if they tried.
For a stretch there in the second half, there was a call ever 15 seconds on both sides of the ball.. ing refs trying to outshine the game
Also, in every foul they called on baynes, he was just putting an elbow on howard's back, which is legal as long as he doesnt extend his arm. Whereas howard was blatantly elbowing, heading, shouldering bayne's chest and head..
Sometimes i wonder if baynes would just fall down every time howard banged him, what would the calls be like
jfc its low post basketball between two of the more physical players in the NBA. Neither of them were being cheap and taking shots. Both teams ran a clean game.
maybe some was said but if they start calling games like that in the playoffs I might just give up on basketball. this is not football where you have to worry about head injuries. let them ing play.
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