NBA protest and NBA officiating embarrassment

[bob jenkins]

Originally Posted by Nevadaref

Video request of Houston player James Harden making a dunk, yet the officials missing the fact that it passed through the basket and failing to count the score.

Houston lost by two and may protest the game.

Based on the player's reactions in chasing the ball, it looks like they missed it, too.

I don't think this is an NFHS CE.

[so cal lurker]

How would it be protestable? It was a mistake of judgment (did the ball go in), not a question of misapplication of a rule.

[JRutledge]

Originally Posted by bob jenkins

Based on the player's reactions in chasing the ball, it looks like they missed it, too.

I don't think this is an NFHS CE.

You had to see the replay to know for sure. It looked clearly live like that ball never went through. Player does not react that way, they might have counted the basket.

Peace

[thumpferee]

The ball definitely went in and the net swung it around. I don't think Harden knew WTH happened, along with most, obviously!

Was it reviewed? Is it reviewable?

[Altor]

Originally Posted by thumpferee

Was it reviewed? Is it reviewable?

The article I read said the coach has to request the review within the first 30 seconds of the next timeout. He apparently spent too long trying to determine if he could request a review and by the time he did, he was beyond the 30 seconds.

[MechanicGuy]

It's embarrassing, but not an embarrassment.

[Nevadaref]

Originally Posted by MechanicGuy

It's embarrassing, but not an embarrassment.

But this is!
First qtr with 9:23 remaining
Lakers at Utah Jazz

Lebron commits a ridiculous traveling violation with the Trail official having a clear view of the action.

Someone will post the video, several will agree with me that the NBA officiating is embarrassingly poor, and someone will post how great they are and that people who don’t work at that level can’t criticize.

[JRutledge]

Originally Posted by Nevadaref

But this is!
First qtr with 9:23 remaining
Lakers at Utah Jazz

Lebron commits a ridiculous traveling violation with the Trail official having a clear view of the action.

Someone will post the video, several will agree with me that the NBA officiating is embarrassingly poor, and someone will post how great they are and that people who don’t work at that level can’t criticize.

It is not an issue of greatness or poorness. The issue is that this is one play in a game that can be missed by a varsity official. How many times does someone come here and post a horrible misapplication of a rule or a play? So forgive me for rolling my eyes a little bit at the hyperbole about the NBA as if they are alone in doing silly stuff. I post videos all the time about plays and situations that are very embarrassing and the NBA is not the level the plays came from. And officials are looking right at those plays and still do not call obvious travels, call blocking calls on players that did nothing wrong or apply a rule that does not exist or comes from another level. This was bad for sure, but let us be real sometimes. They make mistakes too because they are human.

Peace

[BillyMac]

Originally Posted by Nevadaref

Lebron commits a ridiculous traveling violation with the Trail official having a clear view of the action.

LeBron's explanation:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/nba...AEe?li=BBnba9I

[bucky]

Apparently the official was officiating the defense

[so cal lurker]

Protest denied, despite NBA finding that referees mis-applied the coaching challenge rule.

https://bleacherreport.com/articles/...edium=referral

[robbie]

"While agreeing that the referees misapplied the rules, Commissioner Silver determined that the Rockets had sufficient time to overcome the error during the remainder of the fourth quarter and two subsequent overtime periods and thus the extraordinary remedy of granting a game protest was not warranted."

Yes, an embarrassment!!!!

[BillyMac]

Originally Posted by so cal lurker

https://bleacherreport.com/articles/...edium=referral

"... the crew informed the coaching staff that a basket interference violation had been called on Harden."

[Camron Rust]

Originally Posted by bob jenkins

Based on the player's reactions in chasing the ball, it looks like they missed it, too.

I don't think this is an NFHS CE.

I believe it is.

"erroneously counting or canceling a score"

If one of the other officials comes up later (but before the window expires) and says that ball went in, it should be counted. Why would we not?

[SC Official]

"Embarrassment"?

Christ, they made a mistake on a 1-in-1000-year play. A mistake any one of us could easily make.

It amazes me how holier-than-thou some officials that haven't sniffed the level of the guys on TV love to act.