Wouldn’t work. Scott has been here plenty of times to fuck games up. He knows exactly where he is going.
Thanks bro. I make it a point to work hard and be impartial. Y'all have to understand something about non calls. Sometimes the referee doesn't have the correct positioning to make the call. The #1 rule of officiating: Never guess. So bad positioning, watching the ball, and the cardinal rule creates bad no calls.
I definitely agree. One of the most frustrating things is when I see a ref make a call that he couldn't possibly have seen, one way or the other. I sometimes see a ref shrug and say to a player "I didn't see it". That's a good answer.
...this would certainly explain the way the line has been moving since the Blazers won by 5 pts in game 1 Vegas never loses!
That's not the reason why flops are called fouls. It's 1000% positioning. This is an open look: It's easy to see if: a. Steph has a legal guarding position (feet facing the offense and squarely in front) b. Lillard goes to AND through Steph to cause a charge. c. Steph flops. This is a closed look: Look at the players on the left. If the #5 Posts up the guy on the block, you couldn't tell if he #5 flops or if he's really pushed from behind.
Some refs are quite predictable, have their favorites, or carry an all out grudge. Blazers fans knew for years if they got Jake O'Donell, the road to victory got harder. He had a bur in his backside against Drexler and maybe Buck IIRC. His final game as a ref I believe he ejected Drexler in the Playoffs when he was in Houston. No one was making up his dislike of either the Blazers or some of their best players. And it definitely affected them.
Yep. If the ref doesn't see it he should not call it. These guys are pros. They see quite a bit. What i don't want is a ref making things up or trying to second guess if he didn't see a call. Just keep playing and make the right call on the next one. Absolutely no make up calls.
I think we've talked about this before. Opposites attract. A North Pole likes a South Pole. A proton likes an electron.
A trend I'm seeing is a player drives to the hoop, there is contact, but the refs wait to see if shot goes in or not to blow his whistle. What up with dat?
That is a human thing i would bet. They signal a bit different when it is an and 1. So they are looking if they drop that finger. If the whistle blew then i don't mind. But if he waits to blow the whistle that is a late call.
My speculative theory is that they don't want to interrupt the flow of the game "unnecessarily". I mean, in the NBA the ref could blow the whistle on every possession if he or she chose to enforce the rules strictly at all times. Any NBA ref who did so would quickly be looking for a new job. NBA refs are exercising a tremendous amount of discretion at all times. If the ref has a string of plays where one team's fans think they repeatedly used that discretionary responsibility poorly, that is when I think those fans get upset. The NBA is entertainment so games are officiated differently than College or High School. It has to be. Echoing again what Dviss said: The worst mistake (IMO) NBA refs make is when they call stuff they didn't see, usually because they weren't in the proper position, or they miss something because they were ball watching. But the not calling every foul at the basket if the ball goes in, yeah that seems like standard operating procedure, depending somewhat on a player's "star" status.
