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Originally posted by JRutledge
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Originally posted by Jurassic Referee
You're kidding, aren't you, Tom?
Hell, I can watch an NBA game and never have a clue what a foul is from one whistle to the next. Or traveling or palming, for that matter either. Guys taking four steps on lay-ups....wassup with that? I can't figure out what the NBA philosophy is supposed to be because everything is inconsistent as hell. It's OK to put someone in the third row and a touch foul is then gets called.
The NBA is pure entertainment and is refereed as such. NCAA and high school games are still games. I used to be a big-time NBA fan, but I just can't stand to watch their games anymore. The lack of fundamental skills, the show-boating and trash-talking, the constant whining at officials, freaking coaches that haveta call every single offensive and defensive set, somebody like Kobe shooting 8 for 37 and some dumb announcer trying to tell me how great he is because he scored 25.....yup, the NBA...Faaaaantastic.
You can have it, Tom. I can't stand watching it anymore. Give me an NCAA game any day, and I pray that the pro philosophies stay as far away from them as possible. Jmo.
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When you look at the game from such a narrow perspective, of course you are not going to understand what is going on. The NBA is not a HS game where any little touch is expected to be called. You cannot look at the game through the same eyes.
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What narrow perspective? I don't understand?
I certainly can't understand when I see a player getting away with taking 3 or 4 steps going in for a slam one time, and another player doing the exact same thing and getting called for it. I see touch and phantom calls being made all the time in the NBA; I also see players being put into the popcorn maker and 3 officials swallowing their whistles.
I'll tell you what I don't understand. I don't understand how any team that could start C-Tim Duncan, PF-Amare Stoudamire, SF-Lebron James, PG-Dwayne Wade and SG-Allan Iverson and had a supposed all-time hall-of-fame coach running it could lose to Lithuania, Puerto Rico and Argentina. Puerto Rico, for God's sake! You're right- I sureashell can't understand the NBA when something like that happens.
You can be an apologist for the NBA if you want to be. That's your opinion and you're entitled to it.
My opinion is the NBA in it's current state absolutely sucks. It's boring as hell to watch. Everybody can dunk but very few can dribble or jump-shoot consistently. If I want to be "entertained" like the NBA is supposedly currently doing, I'll turn on ESPN2 and look for the AND1 games. They're both refereed the same way. My opinion also is that NBA officials get the best training in the world, but they're being trained to officiate a game from an "entertainment" perspective rather than an actual rules-based perspective. They call what they're told to call...and damn the actual rules.
End of another rant.
