Van Gundy fined for comments about playoff officiating

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Originally posted by rwest
that whenever I disagree with you, you have to attack me? Can't we just disagree without the insults? I didn't insult you. I just gave a different view point. I gave my opinion, which is just as valid as anyone elses. You ask me for proof? I don't have any documents or statements to back up what I'm saying. Its just my opinion. Where's your proof? Do you have any? Probably not. But I don't attack you for stating your opinion. Why can't we all just get along? You act as if I attacked you personally.

If I offended you, I'm sorry. I didn't mean to.
Also, I never said I was perfect. I even admitted in my post that the NBA officials are better than me.

Let us get serious for a second here. Who the hell are you to me? Am I supposed to just accept you point of view because you said it? I think your opinion is crap. I think that way because you have shown no basis for that opinion other than it is an opinion. I am not at all mad at you. I do not even know who you are. Do you realize how many people I have come in contact with on this site? In most cases I do not even realize that I have ever responded to any of your posts. You have less than 200 posts, you are not a person I can say posts at any site I frequent and you think I have something against you. Man, you give me much more credit than I deserve.

I am saying this to you because I am tired of hearing it without any evidence. Yes, I just showed proof from last yearÂ’s Final. I also talked about Duncan hand his foul out against Denver (I was not the only one that made that reference). LeBron James did not make the playoffs, where were the officials? The Lakers had two Superstars lose to a bunch of unproven playoff players. Even one of the players got TÂ’d up for looking at officials (literally) and he did not get called for fouls unnecessarily. And I also last summer heard Danny Crawford at the IHSA OfficialÂ’s Convention talk in detail about the NBAÂ’s training and evaluation program. He talked about how they were evaluated on every call and non-call in every basketball game they work. Crawford also talked about what their philosophies are from the League office. I could go on and on about my proof.

Guys like you say this crap (and you are an official) and non-officials will read your response and think, "SEE, SEE I was right." Then they take that very same crap to our levels and think that I did not call a foul on an All-American or some top player that is all in the media, because he is a star at the HS level. Rather than the officials just made a split second decision, it had to be some nefarious reason behind a call or non-call. If it bothers you for me or anyone to respond to your opinion, then you need to leave this place right now. Never come back because you will find problems with a lot of people. I have every right to say anything to you I like.

The only thing I said in the previous post about you was, "You must be perfect." You have to be perfect if you have never missed a foul or violation or passed on something because it did not create much of an advantage or put the team at a disadvantage. I can only imagine what you are offended by on the court if that offended you so much? I did not call you a name or demean you. I just simply said you must be much better than everyone else, because I am sure in your games when you make calls and non-calls, you are not doing so because of some other reason. If you do not do that, why do the NBA officials do that?

Peace