Okay, I know I am in the vast minority and will have a bunch of my Green Clad Family telling me I'm kinda stupid but, I just didn't think the referees were bad tonight. Yes, there were bad calls but those bad calls went both ways and when the refs realized they made a bad call, the makeup call was called at the other end.
The difference between the game here and the games in Atlanta is that the refs in Atlanta injected themselves into the game and made sure they made a difference in the game. The refs tonight called the game and when they made a mistake they didn't take the griping personally and let it effect future calls. If they felt there may have been a mistake the makeup call came.
Leon got two offensive charges in the first half and then they give one to Atlanta by calling blocking on Pierce. The Hawks get two 3 second violations, one very bad, in the second half then Posey gets the call. There was a ton of contact on the boards and very few over the back calls, if any, I can't remember. That was in the Celts favor because they were the aggressor on the boards tonight.
No referee team is going to get every call right but I don't see all the griping about this group. When things got physical they calmed them down. We got a sweet call on that KG flagrant and I think that may have been a bit of a makeup for the early T on KG.
Topic: First Round Game 5 Atlanta Hawks at Boston Celtics, 4/30/08 (8:30pm TNT / CSN) (Read 48887 times)