T you beat me to it. I was going to start a thread called the need for an officiating overhaul. Officials will always bee needed and there will always be gray areas with regards to fouls, but lets give them some help. They have alot to focus on. If ALL they had to do was focus on the ball and the play and not have to worry about 3 second violations, 5 second violations and out of bounds plays, then they would have a better percentage of correct calls on other things, because they would have more of a focus on those aspects of the game. I propose the NBA follows Tennis. Lets get laser cams on all of the court lines. Let the computers decide if the player stepped out of bounds or if it was a three or not. Let the computer keep track of the time and start a 3 second and 5 second countdown for every play that requires it. We have camera set up all over the place and Tennis has used laser sites on their lines since the 90's. Why are we relying on someones vision for these types of plays? I could see it being harder in football because of the size of the field and amount of players to track, but in basketball, the court is nominally larger than the Tennis court and there are only 11 objects to track on the court at once. This could easily be done and allow the refs to focus more on what matters. We were absolutely robbed of a game last night.
Did the refs come down and jack up 5 straight poor shots late in the game? In reality, Crabbe tripped over his own jock on the last shot of regulation. We were EXTREMELY lucky after blowing a 21 point lead to even get in to OT.
SlyPokerDog needs his own negative thread where he can run around happy and free and stop trying to troll his negativity on everyone else everywhere else.... Can we please create a sticky thread called "SlyPokerDog's infinite bitching about everything and nothing" thread? I bet its a success....
Both teams were playing great D at the end of the game and both teams missed several shots... I wanna change your name to NMD for Narrow Minded Dog. You okay with that?
The other team did their fair share of low quality shots, as well. Judgment calls suck, but getting calls factually incorrect is always frustrating for the team on the bad side of them.
I'm not being negative. I'm saying we lost a 21 point lead, and that had more to do with losing than a bad call
Sure. Call me whatever you want. I know it was great D by us when John Wall blew by us several times to score easy lay ups
Yes you are. Leads are gained and lost in every NBA. YOu are smart enough to know its a game of runs. Come on now.... Dude. Wall blows by everybody though. Again... come on now...Dame blew by them several times too. Wall is atrocious at D right?
Sounds like you're making assumptions based on what you want to hear. Just learn to read next time, it will be okay.
@Orion Bailey needs to stop insulting me. :MARIS61: And if he doesn't I'm going to start deleting posts.
I for one, am blaming the refs for the loss. Even tho the Blazers blew a lead and had chances, it still doesn't excuse the missed call by the refs last night. I mean, there was a ref on each side staring directly at the play. I am so pissed. This missed call is inexcusable and could be the reason the Blazers don't make the playoffs.
I am ignorant. What is the insult? Narrow minded? I asked him IF I could call him that and he said fine. Commenting on vision? Geez. I thought that was a joke that he would care less about. I thought I was having a big boy conversation with a big boy who doesn't have an issue with some abrasion. Ill put my diapers on and go sit in the corner again.
