Bitch about the culture all you want I certainly miss the tougher days of the 90's but unless your talking game 6 Sac vs LA it's rare that refs completely give another team the game with bad calls.
fify... also, and not the least bit coincidentally, the only sport where the officials report directly to the commissioner despite Stern's public assurances that this would change following the Donaghy fiasco. The NBA has the best basketball players in the world, just imagine what it might be like if it was legit sport STOMP
Not all OB plays have to be reviewed, if you gave a team the ball because you didnt want to call a foul, fine just dont go to a review.
They couldn't have their stars fouling out, or getting less than their averages. They need the refs to ensure that their stars continue to be stars.
The very fact that he's having foul trouble tells me that the NBA doesn't give a shit. I swear they hate Paul Allen.
Paul Allen needs to get a little mouthy and earn us some calls with his check book like Cuban did for Dallas.
Last night the refs call yet another clean block on Batum, but not only a foul, but a goaltend. In a competitive game, just 1-2 bad calls can easily swing the outcome of a game. NBA titles haven't meant shit since the 80s. The Lakers and Celtics (and Spurs) were true champions, after that, it's been whoever the refs favor, intentionally or not, with their calls.
Dame only played like seven minutes in the first half. That was BY FAR the most influential bullshit the refs threw at us.
http://scores.espn.go.com/nba/recap?gameId=400489623 1 FT attempt for the entire team? Wonder what sort of bets the refs had going in that one?
ref hate thread. Yeah I was pretty frustrated with the treatment the blazers got in Indi...But common. lets not forget that if #12 gets the rebound. He seals the game. Did west throw an elbow to get it? possibly. Did #12 have position on west? yes. Should he have let west get the board? no. bottom line. get a rebound you win the game. Doesn't matter what you have to do to get it. Get the damn board.
I just watched the replay of the twolves game. Holy shit was that some horrid reffing, and Scott foster with another horrendous goal tending call, seriously that guy should be banned from blazer games, I honestly hope the people of the moda hang him from the rafters the next time he dare shows his face in rose city.
I committed to watch the whole 14-minute video. Then at the end, it said, "Continued in Part 2." It was alright. Not great. Should be condensed by having a narrator say the written text aloud. The maker is no nutjob.
Someday, Somebody will get offered a shit load of money weather it be a referee, player, coach or just someone on the inside that will throw David Stern or\and Adam Silver under the bus and it will hit hard. Stu Jackson has already been thrown under the bus a couple of times.
Part 2:MARIS61::MARIS61: [video=youtube;iHd2UNqtYjg]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHd2UNqtYjg[/video]
