Today's Official Report for Game 4 5/9

[FLCeltsFan]

Today's Referees are:
Joe DeRosa
Home Won Loss 43/25
Playoff Home Team Win % 57%
Calls 49 fouls per game
% Fouls Called on Home Team 47%
Home Techs per game 1, Road techs per game 1.4
DeRosa has officiated over 1,000+ regular season games, 75+ play-off games, and 5 NBA Finals games. He isn't on the top 10 list of Cavs favorite referees. DeRosa was the crew chief for Game 1 against the Heat when the melee broke out and KG was ejected.

Mike Callahan
Home Won Loss 48/25
Playoff Home Team Win % 50%
Calls 40 fouls per game
% Fouls Called on Home Team 50%
Home Techs per game .5, Road techs per game .8
Callahan has officiated over 940+ regular season games, 65+ play-off games and 5 NBA Finals games. He also isn't on the Cavs list of favorite or least favorite refs. of There were a lot of complaints about Callahan's calls in the Spurs/Mavs series.

Michael Smith
Home Won Loss 44/25
Playoff Home Team Win % 100% (only 3 games)
Calls 43 fouls per game
% Fouls Called on Home Team 45%
Home Techs per game .3, Road techs per game 0
He has officiated over 740+ regular season games and 7 play-off games. One of Smith’s favorite pastimes is officiating games in his church’s basketball league. The Cavs are 1-2 with Smith as a ref this season with the two losses by an average of 1.5 points.

[billysan]

So I guess we cant blame the refs if we lose, based on these stats?

LOL, Thanx FlCeltsFan. Interesting stuff.

[Q_FBE]

Perhaps that they will call a "fair" game for the Celtics so the tie the series and give Wyc revenues for at least one more home game.

[celticinorlando]

well...that sounds encouraging