I don't respond to you with basketball opinions because it's absolutely pointless. You'll just develop a grudge and start trolling me like you do every other poster who disagrees with you. That shit is not fun to me.
Last year, I sat next to guy on a plane who was a replacement ref the last time they went on strike. These were all refs that hope to be NBA refs one day. They reffed the games straight up and the league was furious with them. The stories he told me about the fixing of games was beyond depressing.
Blaming the refs is a bitch move. The refs did not let West drop 30 on only 16 shots or let George Hill go for 37. We had a chance and we lost get over it but don't be the bitchy fans that always blame the refs.
That and give some credit to Indiana. They weren't interested in losing the season series to Portland. And then give credit to Portland for making it hell for them to actually pull it out. Just as they did in OKC a couple weeks ago and just as they have been doing all season long. To everyone.
If you have never read the Tim Donaghy book you should. Even if you don't believe all of it or don't like him the book is quite interesting.
Yea it's no wonder they still have 70 year old refs refereeing some of the most athletic dudes on the planet. Bitch move perhaps when framed like that, but the NBA has become a bitching of the game of basketball. The amount of ticky tack fouls they call has ruined the game. It happens every night across the NBA and it's disgusting, damn right we should bitch, it completely alters the landscape of the league.
I miss the days of the "makeup call". If a ref screwed up and knew it at the other end makeup foul or turnover would be called and all the players and coaches approved of that style. But no more. If they screw up, too bad for the team they screwed.
The floppers are the referee's faults too. So again This thread is really only about the Refs. NBA Refs are lazy and they DO NOT officiate the game like College Referees do. They don't rotate when they are supposed to and they REGULARLY call outside of their primary area of responsibility. Notice there isn't a problem with flopping at the college or HS levels?
Leon Wood is just a bad official. He is a lazy ball watcher. It was Leon Wood who missed the call when Tyson Chandler slapped Joel P's broken wrist. Why did he miss the call you say? BECAUSE THAT LAZY MOTHERFUCKER WAS LOOKING AT THE BALL AT THE TOP OF THE KEY.... NBA refs are lazy ball watchers.
Donaghy basically admits that if it wasn't for the refs the Blazers would have beat the Lakers in 2000. He says that after the 3rd qtr the refs new they had to go to work and help the Lakers out.
