Which team in the playoffs gets the most beneficial calls?

[FromWayDowntown]

there's no way. not with Duncan on the team. maybe a team with no low post presence, but the Spurs have a beast down low and a couple of guards that live in the paint.

link?

It was early in the playoffs, but here's a link to a thread discussing the point in time when the Spurs had the fewest FTA in the playoffs:

http://spurstalk.com/forums/showthread.php?t=65742

Actually, the Spurs still average the fewest FTA/G of any team in the 2007 playoffs:

GST 30.3
DAL 30.0
CHI 29.4
ORL 28.5
CLE 27.3
MIA 27.3
HOU 26.3
DET 26.1
TOR 25.5
PNX 24.8
UTH 24.4
NJN 22.6
WAS 21.8
LAL 21.6
DEN 21.0
SAS 20.8

http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/stats/by..._2006&sort=237

[Extra Stout]

Yeah, it's odd seeing a pistonfan throwing out some preemptive finals whining.

Not the norm around here.

EastsBeasts isn't near as bad as jeffdrums/SpursDynasty.

[Extra Stout]

For the playoffs, the Spurs' have, on average, 0.25 more fouls called on them than their opponents have called on them -- 9th out of 16 teams.

The fix is definitely in.

But the Spurs actually commit 25 more fouls per game than any other team, 12 by Bruce Bowen alone.

Some guy with a blog says so.

[DOMINATOR]

[phyzik]

It was early in the playoffs, but here's a link to a thread discussing the point in time when the Spurs had the fewest FTA in the playoffs:

http://spurstalk.com/forums/showthread.php?t=65742

Actually, the Spurs still average the fewest FTA/G of any team in the 2007 playoffs:

GST 30.3
DAL 30.0
CHI 29.4
ORL 28.5
CLE 27.3
MIA 27.3
HOU 26.3
DET 26.1
TOR 25.5
PNX 24.8
UTH 24.4
NJN 22.6
WAS 21.8
LAL 21.6
DEN 21.0
SAS 20.8

http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/stats/by..._2006&sort=237

was about to pull this out myself.

[Amare_32]

[QUOTE=jacobdrj]Actually, the officiating has been decent this year. Not perfect, by any stretch of the imagination, and there have been a few notable no-calls, but the playoffs is devoid of the horrible officiating that would have been present in, oh, I don't know, a Lakers-T`wolves series



No Wade thats why.

[Supergirl]

The idea that the Spurs benefit from calls is ridiculous. Duncan is CONSISTENTLY the only superstar who doesn't get a lot of leeway from the refs.

In the most recent series, the only two people getting less love from the refs are Vaughn and Manu - both have been hacked repeatedly and received no calls.

As far as teams go - I don't think there is one team that consistently gets away with more. I think overall, the refs do a pretty decent job.

A lot of people want to take issue with things that are just basic:
1. On a team's HC, calls are going to go a little more the way of the home team.
2. Refs will never call questionable contact in the end of a game, because they don't want made or missed FTs to be a deciding factor if the contact is questionable.
3. In general, the trend of the refs is to let the players play, as long as things aren't getting too heated
4. If things are too heated, refs will call a couple touch fouls to crack down on things.
5. There's always going to be major oversights.

These are just things about the nature of refereeing you have to live with.

[hater]

It was early in the playoffs, but here's a link to a thread discussing the point in time when the Spurs had the fewest FTA in the playoffs:

http://spurstalk.com/forums/showthread.php?t=65742

Actually, the Spurs still average the fewest FTA/G of any team in the 2007 playoffs:

GST 30.3
DAL 30.0
CHI 29.4
ORL 28.5
CLE 27.3
MIA 27.3
HOU 26.3
DET 26.1
TOR 25.5
PNX 24.8
UTH 24.4
NJN 22.6
WAS 21.8
LAL 21.6
DEN 21.0
SAS 20.8

http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/stats/by..._2006&sort=237