Games like this are the only reason I still continue to watch the NBA. Despite the fact that refs can control games between two closely matched teams, one team can always overcome ref bias by just playing/shooting of of their mind.
true. i've said before, the league may not be rigged WWE style, but you have to have your head in your ass to not see the favorable treatments for the moneymakers. just follow the money.....
there's still something spontaneous and unpredictable to the game, not even Stern and his people could control that. but it's about overcoming a stacked hand.
props to the Mormons btw for the win.
Magic number for Jazz is 4 total wins or Lakers Losses.
Jazz go 2-2 and Lakers go 3-2, they are golden.
guess warriors lost this on purpose imho. they did a magnificent job trolling the lakers. refs have tried everything to prevent the jazz from winning this but the warriors still managed to lose the game regardless. i hope other teams will follow the warriors, tank each & every games vs. utah or mavs while giving lakers the toughest fights possible, just to send a message to stern and his retinue, stating our opposition against games manipulation tbh.
The game is impossible to outright rigg, but extremely easy to highly influence with a call / no call be it a foul, travel, 3 seconds, etc.
Calls are missed both ways all the time, but when the majority of those missed calls over the years favor one team more than any other, it definitely raises eyebrows.
Yeah, honestly if you could clearly and coherently define "questionable foul call in favor/against team X" or "questionable no call in favor/against team X" and you did a statistical analysis of such calls over the years, I wouldn't be surprised if the difference in reffing was statistically significant (i.e. likely not due to random chance) in favor of certain teams.
agree, the refs can make bad calls every now and then, but when the sample size is big enough, you'll realize it's not just a rare case imho.
Expect the Warriors to be fined for tanking .... better yet, expect the Jazz to be fined for winning the game, essentially acting against the best interest of the league and not providing the paying the customers with what they want in the playoffs.
BTW, I will have to bump the earlier thread I had on tracking the FTAs of Warriors, Jazz, Lakers and Rockets (along with their opponents) when I have time. Very entertaining stats.
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