Bill Lambieer WNBA Playoffs

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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)