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Not one post ever about officiating, rules, or mechanics- in either football or basketball. Every post made to date is simply dumping on officials. Methinks we got ourselves another 14-year old troll here, showing up just to bother the real officials. Why don't you post your college schedule, fanboy? |
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IMO Joey's biggest mistake was his target that night. I am official an a fan of the NBA (one of the few among my peers). Tim Duncan is poster child for the NBA, an rightfully so. The NBA is mired in on an off court problems with is players and there image. I obviously don't know Mr Duncan personally, but he seems like a very likable individual who plays the game the right way, and conducts himself in a way we can all appreciate on and off the court. If this happens with the likes of a Rasheed Wallace or someone like that this is probably not as big of an issue. Maybe he's suspended for a few games, but the reaction as it were might be different. If anyone caught the interview on 60 Minutes a while back with his brother and father you would truly see the passion he has for the game. I think there is a lesson here for all of us, both on, and off the court. Hopefully cooler heads will prevail, Joey will see his error for what was, and return to the NBA.
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what association are you with? i am sure we can get to the bottom of this truth/lie pretty easy.
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Interesting ESPN article
Here's an interesting article by Pat Forde on ESPN.com. It also has video for the incident as well as interviews. Also, Duncan just got fined $25,000 for what he said either during or after the ejection.
http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/colum...pat&id=2840227 |
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I just said I wish I was 14. He got the same replies I got before when I criticized the officials. I don't like being called a fanboy. He probably doesn't either. How do we know whether or not he is an official? Just answer his questions.
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I guess the basketball Forum has it's share of "flame wars" also. It's a shame because the thread about Joey Crawford should have been titled something along the lines of "how is a Professional official Defined" It's unfortunate in BIG Time sports that no matter how good of an official you are, you get noted for the ONE BAD call that you made. We saw this in baseball as well. Don Denkinger was an excellent baseball official as voted by the coaches and his peers, yet he will be simply be remembered for the Bad call he made in the KC / Cardinals World Series many years back. He received death threats, etc. Another NBA official that is noted for ONE call that comes to mind is Hugh Holands. To this day the Knicks Bulls series of that era is noted as the "Hugh Hoands" call. I believe the call was on Scotty Pippen of the Bulls at the end of the game. I do not think we can compare what we do whether you officiate football, basketball or baseball to the PRO level. The PRO Game is about BIG TIME money - PERIOD. My gut tells me if Joey Crawford "dumped" Joe Smo who hardly sees action, it would have been a non issue, but it was Tim Duncan. The same would be true of any Official who throws out a star player. Hopefully after Commissioner Stern is finished with the investigation we will know the REAL truth as to what happened. See you on the "other side" Pete Booth
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This post won't be popular with the old guys.
What's the aveage length of an NBA career for the top players? It is my belief that the officials shouldn't be around much longer than that. Joey has other issues with his personality which have landed him in trouble in the past as well as this time, but I also have to believe that his being in the league for 29 years, which is more than enough, is part of the problem. It seems that when people do something for so many years they lose perspective and get too high on themselves.
It is time for Joey and Bavetta to go. The NBA should consider putting in a cap of 15 or 20 years for officials. |
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