NBA playoffs (NBA haters stay away)

[Nevadaref]

Originally Posted by ronald

NBA refs do this. They are not perfect but must get in the mid to high 90's or they do not stay around. 90% is not good enough for them

You can get off your soapbox now. Even with the best officials in the NBA working the postseason games, the league office is frequently announcing that their decisions are incorrect. There is no way that they are grading out in the mid to high 90s IN THE VIEW OF THEIR OWN REVIEWERS.

The league office simply refuses to back its officials as yet another T was declared incorrect and rescinded today.

NBA rescinds technical foul on Orlando Magic's Dwight Howard in Eastern Conference Finals - ESPN

The NBA announced Wednesday that it has rescinded Howard's sixth technical foul of the playoffs, which he was given for taunting Anderson Varejao after a layup in the fourth quarter of the Magic's 116-114 overtime victory Tuesday night. Cleveland's forward had draped his arms around Howard in a failed attempt to stop him from scoring.
Howard's total of technicals for the postseason is thus back down to five.


This was one of several technical fouls revoked by the league office this postseason. Denver's Kenyon Martin is the most prominent example, with three of his six playoff technicals rescinded already.

[tomegun]

This is the worst I've seen the officials in the NBA. It could be a case of being told to do one thing and then when they do that the league changes the decision. Regardless, the playoffs aren't shaping up the way Stern wants them to.

On a side note, one of my posts was deleted and I didn't say anything offensive. Is it like that now or did it have something to do with having a quote in my post?

[Brad]

Originally Posted by tomegun

On a side note, one of my posts was deleted and I didn't say anything offensive. Is it like that now or did it have something to do with having a quote in my post?

The moderators on our forum do a great job and they show more patience than I do.

When I have to get involved (as I did today) I am not going to pick through every post -- the initial one that started a turmoil and all responses -- to see which are ok and which are not. If anything looks off-topic and/or related to the first post that started everything, it's going.

Fortunately, I don't have to get involved that often

[tomegun]

Originally Posted by Brad

The moderators on our forum do a great job and they show more patience than I do.

When I have to get involved (as I did today) I am not going to pick through every post -- the initial one that started a turmoil and all responses -- to see which are ok and which are not. If anything looks off-topic and/or related to the first post that started everything, it's going.

Fortunately, I don't have to get involved that often

Brad, I can understand that and now I know. I can see how what I said, including the quote, could continue what was started. Also, I asked Nevada the question and didn't look at the thread again until my post above.

[grunewar]

Thoughts by Derek Fisher:

"We'll go to Denver (Friday for Game 6), and the game will be called differently. That's just the way it is. I mean, in high school, you go across town, and you know you aren't getting calls. At the highest level of the sport, why would it be any different?"

Rest of the article:

Lakers, Nuggets downplay refs' whistles ahead of Game 6 - USATODAY.com

[Nevadaref]

Obviously, the answer is to play at a neutral site.

I wonder what Fisher would think of meeting up with the Nuggets in Salt Lake City.

[ronald]

How do you know what they get?

Ever heard of the guy named Ed Rush? How many NBA finals did he work? Have you ever met him? I was struck by his humility. One of the top refs in NBA and a down to earth, humble man from limited contact. In his contacts with the campers, he was approachable and showed no signs that he was too important or unwilling to talk or chat with anyone about anything. I have been to other type of camps where the guest speakers, amateurs, don't have the time of day for attendees. Rush is a class act. Humble person.

Check your bias and hating.

Have you ever met any of the observers and evaluators of the NBA? There are 11 of them. One of them is a D1 college official and lives somewhere in MD. I do not have any inkling of why the NBA chose him to be one of the eleven but I imagine they saw that he had some basketball acumen or they would not have hired him for that position.

The time I stated that the officials got something like 68 percent of the calls correct in their college game, that game was broken down by video by one of the officials from the game. That was his evaluation of a game he did. D1 official evaluating his game and scores it 68. That guy will get better not the guy who thinks no way his crew is only getting 70 percent of the calls right.