Play the game, don't complain to the refs, take your lumps, and overcome adversity. Too much whining from coaches, players, and fans.
And refs get a free pass.
Improve the oversight of refs. Create more ways to review plays. Create more accountability with inaccurate refs, including training.
Whining about calls is never a good look.
The NBA has done nothing about this and it gets worse every year. Jaylen had never been ejected before and he gets a crap whistle.
Yeah, the Celtics can’t do any of those things, only the NBA can. And the NBA has long prioritized controlling the flow of games vs cleaning up refereeing, so none of these things ever get done. I highly recommend checking out the Donaghy podcast “Whistleblower.”
I did not watch all that much honestly, but in my limited viewing the Olympics FIBA refs had both the game, and some fairly petulant NBA players, more under control in about 3 weeks of action, than NBA refs have achieved in perpetuity.
The product seemingly could be improved if the desire was there, but it isn’t. At every turn, Silver caters to casual fans. This leaves die hards like us, on the Jason Voorhees of sports forums, p---ed off.
To Ozgod’s point, we don’t know what’s going on behind the scenes, but we see the product unnecessarily sucks at times and we are tired of devoting time, love, and for some of us significant coin, into a franchise and then watching bush league hijinks like this.
But we love basketball and want to see it played at the highest level, so we are effectively held hostage by Scott Foster and Tony “The Turtle” Brothers.