OT-Article on Questionable Calls in NBA

[JRutledge]

Originally Posted by BillyMac

Thank you very much. I really wish that the Forum never heard of the "stoopid blue font". I'm sure that many would agree with me. Maybe we should have a poll?

We need polls more than we need blue font.

Peace

[Adam]

Originally Posted by JRutledge

I know what you were saying. But this has nothing to do with the league; it has to do with player's mentality in today's games at all levels. These guys are just higher profile. How many times do we hear that we called too many fouls but players are being called for very obvious things? It is like the number of fouls is the issue, not what the players are doing to be called for fouls.

Peace

Right, as if there's a limit on how many times we should blow our whistles in a game.

[Kelvin green]

My favorites from the ESPN piece

Over the three games the Lakers had 75 fouls Boston had 84.... OOOOH what a disparity Lets see....

What part of the rule book says fouls have to be even.... 9 fouls over three games, unless I did the math wrong this averages to be less than one foul call per quarter .... This does not even take ito consideration that Boston might have tried fouling...

The Lakers have shot 10 more FTs in three games..... OOOH once again one FT per quarter.
Rivers complains about "moving screens" because Boston got called for one and Lakers none? Yeah that one call has made the who difference? I would love to see the plays he's complaining about...

They complain about officiating when Ray Allen shoots 0-13 from the field (0/-8 behind the line) Perkins shoots

In the Game three loss Boston shoots .667 from the FT line and .438 from the field and wants to complain?

Even in game 4 (Boston wins) with Ray Allen shooting 4-11 and Rondo 5-15 and complain about the officiating. How about making a freaking shot?

[mbyron]

Kelvin, you seem to be laboring under the misconception that the people making and printing these accusations care whether they are true, or even make sense.

[grunewar]

Originally Posted by Kelvin green

Over the three games the Lakers had 75 fouls Boston had 84.... OOOOH what a disparity Lets see....

Game 5 - LA = 22, Celtics = 23

Originally Posted by Kelvin green

The Lakers have shot 10 more FTs in three games..... OOOH once again one FT per quarter.

Game 5 - LA (visitors) 26, Celtics = 13

Hey, I thought the home team was supposed to have the advantage in foul calls and foul shots?

Somebody needs to get ahold of these refs and really lecture them. Better yet, publicly berate them.

This is getting totally out of hand!