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Originally posted by IUgrad92
Many say that to be an NBA official is the pinnacle of officiating, they are the best in the game. Then how does Salvatore miss that call??? Barry gets rebound, Salvatore is lead, becomes new trail, nobody hounding Barry after the rebound, yet doesn't see Finley out of bounds????
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Show me a game that does not have officials miss calls, I will show you fantasy land. Officials miss calls. If all officials were perfect, every official would work the playoffs. Also I did not see an angle that showed Finley was definitely on the line. Now maybe there was one, but the angle that I saw the most of was the normal TV view. I could not at all tell if he was on the line and that is not the angle the official was looking from.
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Originally posted by IUgrad92
I cannot watch the NBA, it is not basketball. It is entertainment. When the best officials in the world continually allow 3-5 steps just to allow a spectacular dunk, that alone tells me that the rules of basketball (according to Dr. Naismith) are second in priority, at best.
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If we went by the rules that Naismith created, there would be no dribbling and many of the current rules at all levels would not be present. The game that was originally created has not been seen in well over 70 years.
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Originally posted by IUgrad92
The 2004 Olympic games proved to me that the best basketball is played outside of the US and that the best officials are not in the NBA.
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I have seen many Olympic Games, you really cannot tell me these guys are the best or the system they use is the best. That has to be the funniest thing you have said in this post. FIBA officials, the best officials in the world?
Peace