Bill Lambieer WNBA Playoffs

[rockyroad]

Originally Posted by bbcoach7

I don't care if they are D1, if you watch the games, it's one lousy call after another. How do I know that? I have the benefit of instant replay. I watch a huge amount of D1 basketball, and have always been impressed with the quality of the officiating. I might watch several D1 games in a row before I even see a call that looks funny, then the tape almost always backs up the Ref. Not so with the WNBA playoffs. You can watch a game and see several questionable calls per game.

And therein lies your problem...you are trying to compare NCAA games and WNBA games...the officials have two VERY different sets of guidelines they are told to follow in those two very distinct games...you can't watch an NBA or WNBA game and expect it to be called the same as an NCAA game. In fact, watch a Lisa Mattingly, Sally Bell, Melissa Barlowe, etc. referee a WNBA game and then watch them ref an NCAA game - it's night and day...and that's the way the WNBA wants it. What you think in your mind is a "questionable call" is the way the WNBA has instructed plays to be called. Apples and tangerines, baby.

[RonRef]

Originally Posted by rockyroad

And therein lies your problem...you are trying to compare NCAA games and WNBA games...the officials have two VERY different sets of guidelines they are told to follow in those two very distinct games...you can't watch an NBA or WNBA game and expect it to be called the same as an NCAA game. In fact, watch a Lisa Mattingly, Sally Bell, Melissa Barlowe, etc. referee a WNBA game and then watch them ref an NCAA game - it's night and day...and that's the way the WNBA wants it. What you think in your mind is a "questionable call" is the way the WNBA has instructed plays to be called. Apples and tangerines, baby.

Sally Bell retired from the WNBA a couple of years ago, but point will taken.

[rockyroad]

Originally Posted by RonRef

Sally Bell retired from the WNBA a couple of years ago, but point will taken.

I know - so did Barlowe after last season...but Sally was at a camp I attended this summer and is such a fantastic person that I had to throw her name in there!!

[bbcoach7]

Originally Posted by rockyroad

And therein lies your problem...you are trying to compare NCAA games and WNBA games...the officials have two VERY different sets of guidelines they are told to follow in those two very distinct games...you can't watch an NBA or WNBA game and expect it to be called the same as an NCAA game. In fact, watch a Lisa Mattingly, Sally Bell, Melissa Barlowe, etc. referee a WNBA game and then watch them ref an NCAA game - it's night and day...and that's the way the WNBA wants it. What you think in your mind is a "questionable call" is the way the WNBA has instructed plays to be called. Apples and tangerines, baby.

I appreciate you explaining this to me. I'm not on some kinda ego trip here, with a powerful need to be right. I just want to understand, that's all.

[InvisibleRef]

Originally Posted by rockyroad

And therein lies your problem...you are trying to compare NCAA games and WNBA games...the officials have two VERY different sets of guidelines they are told to follow in those two very distinct games...you can't watch an NBA or WNBA game and expect it to be called the same as an NCAA game. In fact, watch a Lisa Mattingly, Sally Bell, Melissa Barlowe, etc. referee a WNBA game and then watch them ref an NCAA game - it's night and day...and that's the way the WNBA wants it. What you think in your mind is a "questionable call" is the way the WNBA has instructed plays to be called. Apples and tangerines, baby.

rockyroad, I'm not sure that you are correct on this one. It may be that when we say "man, the officiating sure is bad in WNBA, nowhere near as good as NCAA D-1" that you can be right. EVEN if they are the same officials on the floor. If the assigners are saying "call the game this way" and you disagree with how the assigner's want the game called - then you'll think the officiating sucked. Perhaps the blame for the "poor officiating" in the WNBA lies at the assigners who asked for the officials to umpire like that, not with the officials on the floor who are doing exactly what was asked.

(I haven't seen any of the WNBA playoffs, so I'm not commenting on the officiating as good or bad, I'm just replying to others who say that it is bad)