i dont care what happened before or what calls were made or not made or missed or whatever
THAT LAST PLAY WAS A FOUL ---- A FOUL. PERIOD
you call that 1 minute into the game or 47 minutes into the game. It should not matter.
YOU ARE A REF with NO AGENDA, NEUTRAL, there for the sake of the teams, players and fans who paid to see a basketball game, not you.
You call fouls because it was a foul NOT BECAUSE you DON'T want to bail someone out, thats nowhere in the rule book .
IT DOESN'T MATTER, shouldn't matter.
You are there to call a match neutral with no stake in the outcome. Either way, road or home.
TNT says, "the shooter didnt sell it" and "they don't call those at the end of the game"
A shooter needs to "act and sell it" in order to get a foul called? But then now, you try to "sell it" and they penalize you for flopping...
Why not just whisper into the players ear like the WWE refs do when they need to pass instructions?
This is sad that all playoff games have some sort of REF drama and presence. Since 2000 when the Lakers came into the national scene with the Shaq and Kobe team.
Too many times we worry who the next refs will be, that shouldn't be the case, EVER.
This is about the game and about the players, not about the Refs.
A FOUL IS A FOUL and that was corrupt and personal by Crawford.
Sasha got a touch foul 3 pointer and 1, while this play by Barry is not a foul?
If the same play was made at Minute 25, it would of been called a foul, why not in the end? The rulebook gives no time limits on certain fouls.
Gimmie a Break.
Kobe would of gotten that call, I BET ANYTHING HE WOULD been given that foul.
Combine all this with the other game where the Celtics got close to 40 FT and still lost to Detroit.
The fix is in this year more than ever.
A year with dropped ad revenue, attendance and ratings.
BOSTON vs. LAKERS = huge interest from all markets.
Oh how I wish these were MLB umpires instead of NBA refs.
In baseball, betting on the game or throwing a game is serious and lifetime ban, no bull or playing around.
In the NBA, its business as usual.
The NBA needs international refs , something to clean the game from these biased and agenda driven marketing arms of David Stern.
The NBA needs a committee that is set up independently from the league to monitor questionable games, where there is no fear of retaliation from Stern.
When boxing was being accused of throwing fights, the government steps in, when Horse Racing was being questioned, an independent panel was brought in, when MLB was questioned back in the day, harsh punishment came down from the commissioner in order to protect the intregity of the game.
The NBA thought it cleaned up its allegations with an open and close investigation of the Tim Donahue scandal but the bad apples are still lingering from the tree while Stern continues to water it.
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