Win or lose, this was an extremely poorly reffed game. As I said in the game thread, there were at least a half-dozen bad-to-horrible calls in the second half alone.
Why does a billion dollar industry put up with it? There need to be fines or suspensions for the officials after tonight.
It actually ruining the sport.
Incompetent, poorly trained, figures of authority controlling the pace and flow of a sporting event. Very sad indeed.
Head coaches need to have a number of challenges per game to question the exceptionally poor calls by refs. Officials with a high number of challenges then need to be addressed by the league.
Well said. Good idea, but the final decision in a challenged call should not be made by the floor officials but by a person/team put in charge of reviews. I wonder if the threat of a few challenges will help light a fire under these lazy whistle happy refs. probably not, as someone above suggested, they are doing what they're told.
Bottom line: if the league wants to be taken more seriously, they need to put resources into accountability. When there's a phantom call on Morris where he doesn't even touch the guy, someone in charge needs to sit down with that official and say: Okay what did you see exactly that made you blow the whistle? Of course, this is not really a solution. There has to be a penalty for missed calls. Otherwise you just have a bunch of officials basically agreeing that they suck and then continuing to suck. This is where the NBA has no vision. They have no clue how to teach these refs nuance. They are taking away gray area and saying: well he was near him and the guy didn't score so safe bet to blow the whistle. Terrible approach!!!
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