Olympics Men's Basketball Results to Date

[wanja]

Originally Posted by RichMSN

Actually, the game was played at 2:30AM EDT and was shown live on NBC. I know, I stayed up to watch.

Beijing dates and times are shown in the results list.

[Camron Rust]

Originally Posted by BktBallRef

Agreed. Mechanics, rule knowledge, and game management is lacking. FIBA officiating is not on the level of officiating in the United States at this point.

But then again, Olympic officiating/judging leaves something to be desired in several areas.

Agreed. I've seen better officiated HS games. The typical NCAA D1 game is better officiated than what I saw in the title game.

How can ANY official not penalize the bench throwing stuff onto the floor in protest of a call!!! That should be instant, automatic and unquestionalbe in any ruleset.

At least one of the officials was calling all over the court and getting the calls wrong a fair amount of the time. Consistency was completely absent...probably becasue one official was calling anything he thought he saw and the other two were calling what they did see.