FBI investigating NBA ref

[Jurassic Referee]

Originally Posted by JRutledge

Read the last response. This is the perfect example to just ignore him.

Peace

I see what you mean. Call a foul on the smaller player in a block/charge situation because you have to protect the larger player. That certainly is a different philosophy.....different than any other official in the world, for sure.

And his statement about doing this so long that he doesn't have to read the rule books is self-explanatory, but still doesn't surprise anyone.

JMO.....silly monkey......

[Old School]

Originally Posted by Jurassic Referee

I see what you mean. Call a foul on the smaller player in a block/charge situation because you have to protect the larger player. That certainly is a different philosophy.....different than any other official in the world, for sure.

In case you didn't notice, the NBA official called a block. Maybe it wasn't for the same reason, but we arrived at the same conclusion. Just like little cars don't run up under diesal trucks, little guys don't run up under big guys. Reason, diesal truck won't see you until it's too late, much the same for a bigger player, except the damage is greater towards the bigger player. Yes, that's called protecting the players.

I know you know nothing about protecting players because it doesn't say so in the book. In my games, I'm not having it. Notice how Steve didn't try to do that move anymore. Message sent. The NBA which I have studied, doesn't approach the game the way NFHS does. One reason is they can't. Their players are so much bigger.

[rainmaker]

Originally Posted by Old School

The NBA which I have studied, doesn't approach the game the way NFHS does.

Watching a lot of NBA games, and even charting things from a spectator's view (which is the only one any of us on this forum can have) isn't the same as "studying". To really understand the NBA, you'd have to actually hear from them why and why not they call and don't call things.

The reasons they don't do things the same as the NFHS have little or nothing to do with the sizes of the players, and especially not with "protectiing" the big players or little players. The move that "Steve" didn't do again was illegal not because it "threatened" the big player, but because he didn't establish his position legally. The definition of legal position is different in the NBA and the NFHS, but the principle of legal position is the same -- and it isn't based on who's going to get hurt.

[Adam]

Originally Posted by rainmaker

The definition of legal position is different in the NBA and the NFHS, but the principle of legal position is the same -- and it isn't based on who's going to get hurt.

Yeah, that would just be a stupid way of deciding a call. Good thing officials don't do that, huh.

[Adam]

I know I, for one, am never going to be able to watch and NBA game again. Now, I need to figure out what to do with the extra hour next year. Maybe I'll shine my boots or something productive.

[Jurassic Referee]

Originally Posted by Snaqwells

I know I, for one, am never going to be able to watch and NBA game again. Now, I need to figure out what to do with the extra hour next year. Maybe I'll shine my boots or something productive.

I know what you mean. I've got an extra 45 minutes of leisure time now too.

[rainmaker]

Just to set the record straight:

"Donaghy could have influenced the overs simply by calling more fouls. There have been reports that he topped the league in technical fouls called, but the NBA said Monday he ranked in the lower half of technicals called in each of the last two seasons."

I copied this out of an article on MSN.