Refs killing Bradley

[droopdog7]

It's a [dang] shame.  He simply cannot play lockdown defense because they take it out of his hands.  Those last two calls when he was on Irving were laughable.

[KeepRondo]

Not really.

Just posted this on the other Bradley thread -

He needs to chill out a little on D. The dude plays 15 seconds of solid D and then over commits because he's being too aggressive, resulting in stupid fouls. There were also plays on D that he got wrong in both games, such as undercutting Irving because he was too aggressive getting over the pick. I would hope he would had corrected that. Hopefully he starts playing with more controlled aggressiveness.

[droopdog7]

Not really.

Just posted this on the other Bradley thread -

He needs to chill out a little on D. The dude plays 15 seconds of solid D and then over commits because he's being too aggressive, resulting in stupid fouls. There were also plays on D that he got wrong in both games, such as undercutting Irving because he was too aggressive getting over the pick. I would hope he would had corrected that. Hopefully he starts playing with more controlled aggressiveness.

Disagree completely (obviously).  Those last two calls were highway robbery.  Irving tries to drive, Avery beats him to the stop gets pushed back and foul.  And that last one was a hard contest with zero contact and foul.  While playing aggressive D can lead to fouls, those two were not.  The least the refs can do is make the right calls.

And ultimately, Avery ought to be allowed to bring his game too.  He is struggling offensively and obviously is trying to make up for it on defense.  If only the refs would not rob him of that card.

[KeepRondo]

Not really.

Just posted this on the other Bradley thread -

He needs to chill out a little on D. The dude plays 15 seconds of solid D and then over commits because he's being too aggressive, resulting in stupid fouls. There were also plays on D that he got wrong in both games, such as undercutting Irving because he was too aggressive getting over the pick. I would hope he would had corrected that. Hopefully he starts playing with more controlled aggressiveness.

Disagree completely (obviously).  Those last two calls were highway robbery.  Irving tries to drive, Avery beats him to the stop gets pushed back and foul.  And that last one was a hard contest with zero contact and foul.  While playing aggressive D can lead to fouls, those two were not.  The least the refs can do is make the right calls.

And ultimately, Avery ought to be allowed to bring his game too.  He is struggling offensively and obviously is trying to make up for it on defense.  If only the refs would not rob him of that card.

The play on the baseline, he played 95 percent great D. But then he over committed to the play and jumped into or towards Irving. He basically landed in Irving's landing zone. They are going to call Bradley on that every time.

The play he pushed Irving back to half court, he was actually fouling him. But he and Smart had him trapped. Smart actually got the ball clean, but Bradley tried to make a play on D that was not there. He grabbed for the ball and hit Irving on the leg from behind. It was another over commit.

[kozlodoev]

Not really.

Just posted this on the other Bradley thread -

He needs to chill out a little on D. The dude plays 15 seconds of solid D and then over commits because he's being too aggressive, resulting in stupid fouls. There were also plays on D that he got wrong in both games, such as undercutting Irving because he was too aggressive getting over the pick. I would hope he would had corrected that. Hopefully he starts playing with more controlled aggressiveness.

Disagree completely (obviously).  Those last two calls were highway robbery.  Irving tries to drive, Avery beats him to the stop gets pushed back and foul.  And that last one was a hard contest with zero contact and foul.  While playing aggressive D can lead to fouls, those two were not.  The least the refs can do is make the right calls.

And ultimately, Avery ought to be allowed to bring his game too.  He is struggling offensively and obviously is trying to make up for it on defense.  If only the refs would not rob him of that card.

The call on the arm was good. The blocking foul before that, not so much.

[KeepRondo]

My heat level on that game was a 10 with the refs but I thought Bradley's fouls were just dumb fouls. There were others such as the missed charge call and many more. I thought Jerebko's foul was a terrible call also.

[jeezem]

My heat level on that game was a 10 with the refs but I thought Bradley's fouls were just dumb fouls. There were others such as the missed charge call and many more. I thought Jerebko's foul was a terrible call also.

you mean the one where Jerebko set a moving pick, yea - that's a foul, I don't think he knew he did it, but you have to know not to run through the defender in that situation, it is a bonehead play he made there, pretty sure it is an automatic call in the NBA.

Those are tough calls, but Bradley did foul both times.  The one on the baseline, I think the announcers even said it was a bad call, but Irving landed on Bradley's foot, so it is an automatic call.  I like the aggressive defense on the guy that killed you in the last game though for sure.  Make him work harder for every shot.  You can also tell Crowder is getting under James skin, well - obviously since James took it upon himself to run over Crowder and throw him to the floor.  I see stuff like that and figure it means Crowder is frustrating James.  So, good for him.  I'd also like to see them start decking James when he goes to the basket, since he threw Crowder to the floor, a little pay back is in order there, and there's not supposed to be any easy layups in the playoffs anyways.

The calls that got me were the one where James threw it off the back of the backboard, pretty sure that is out of bounds.  Also, the kicked ball with like 2 minutes left, it didn't go off IT foot, but Cleveland got the ball.  That was a killer call for any chance of making a late game run, it basically ended the game, and not sure how you miss a kicked ball like that, well, since it was kicked, I don't know how a ref misses that.