Rasheed's T vs. LA rescinded....

[MaxwellSmart86]

NICE...But what if we had lost by ONE point?...Would the win by LA been Rescinded?....these Refs have got to calm down with this garbage---Players are NOT robots...and it Almost cost us the game....BTW-Gasol got away with murder all game.

[Drucci]

I agree with you. Frankly, Sheed rarely deserves to get called for a T and at least 4 or 5 of his T's have been rescinded this season...

He didn't deserve a T in the Lakers game, or if he did, Gasol deserved one too because he did the exact same thing as Sheed.

What p---es me off with these T's and the fact that they are rescinded, is that it can be extremely costly in the game. Like you said, what if we lost this game by one point? We could have said it was because of the technical free throw made by the Lakers. And yet the NBA would have rescinded the T but we would still have lost the game because of a terrible call, recognized as such after the game...

The refs should do a better job and not give T's so quickly to Sheed instead of rescinding it after almost every game.

Also, the ESPN broadcast immediately turned its cameras to Sheed on the bench after Rondo got T'ed up in Portland. It was funny but it shows how targeted Sheed is.

[RMO]

In all fairness Shannon Brown missed the technical free throw so it really had no effect on the final score.  I guess ball really doesn't lie because yes, the call was ridiculous.

[sk7326]

if it's not one T, it's another.  Being up against the suspension line, i suspect that influenced things. 

[Birdbrain]

if it's not one T, it's another.  Being up against the suspension line, i suspect that influenced things. 

Doc's(and KGs) reaction to the Sheed T in the Portland game was pretty funny.  It almost seemed as if he was just resigned to the fact that it was going to happen and was already moving on to the next play.  Sort of like he wasn't going to get upset because it's almost what Sheed is looking for.  Like a tantrum for attention.  Some of his T's have been unwarranted and I'm sure it's frustrating to him but, he bring it on himself so if this one is rescinded he'll make up for it soon enough.

On a side note Rondo has a 2 game streak going. 

[vinnie]

Drucci, were you serious when you wrote this -- "Sheed rarely deserves to get called for a T"?  Because if you were, it gave me a good belly laugh. The guy is the NBA T machine and has deserved 90 percent of those he has gotten if not more.

[Drucci]

Drucci, were you serious when you wrote this -- "Sheed rarely deserves to get called for a T"?  Because if you were, it gave me a good belly laugh. The guy is the NBA T machine and has deserved 90 percent of those he has gotten if not more.

Yes, I was. And I was talking about this season only. Many of the T's Sheed has received this season were undeserved, and the NBA itself acknowledges it when rescinding these T's (at least 5 of them have been rescinded...).

And if Sheed deserves "90 percent of those he has gotten if not more", then LeBron would already have 16 T's or more, if the NBA made the same calls on everey player instead of making their calls on reputation only.

[fairweatherfan]

Sheed's problem is that he continually wears on the refs by barking at them all game long.  He just doesn't shut up, no matter what the score or situation.  Before long, they're sick of hearing his voice and having to argue with him, and looking for an excuse to give him a technical.

The refs' problem is that the league judges technical fouls in a vacuum - only the specific interaction that led to a T is examined.  A lot of times what Sheed got the T for doesn't merit a T by itself (like the multiple "And 1!" techs this year); but he didn't really get a T for that incident, he got it for yelling at the refs all game long.

Either way, while I wish Sheed would shut his mouth and save the complaints for the truly bad calls, I'm glad he's a little further away from a suspension.

[PLamb]

The fact that the technical was rescinded so quickly shows me that referees are actually doing what Tim Donaghy said they do which is to pay extra special attention to the hotheads and look for reasons to T them up and that the league is aware of it

Rasheed has been T'ed up just for looking at the ref and yelling "And 1" after being hit during a basket no less than three times(2 of which I think have been rescinded) yet in many games you see Kobe, Carmelo, Howard, Wade and others doing the exact same thing and getting nothing but a shoulder shrug out of the ref

Something must be done about two things

Rasheed's flippant attitude and the refs in the NBA

Don't hold your breath waiting for either to change anytime soon
 

[vinnie]

What Fairweatherfan posts is correct. Basically every ref in the league is sick of Sheed. He never shuts his mouth, complains on every foul, and basically the refs are sick of him. This obviously does lead to some undeserved T's, but his reputation proceeds him. He'll never change though, so we should be prepared for a couple of suspensions in the last 29 games.

[pengaloo]

if it's not one T, it's another.  Being up against the suspension line, i suspect that influenced things. 

Doc's(and KGs) reaction to the Sheed T in the Portland game was pretty funny.  It almost seemed as if he was just resigned to the fact that it was going to happen and was already moving on to the next play.  Sort of like he wasn't going to get upset because it's almost what Sheed is looking for.  Like a tantrum for attention.  Some of his T's have been unwarranted and I'm sure it's frustrating to him but, he bring it on himself so if this one is rescinded he'll make up for it soon enough.

On a side note Rondo has a 2 game streak going. 

"Resigned to the fact that it was going to happen" - your post makes me wonder if Rasheed's T's are part of "Celtics basketball." This could all be coincidence of course and I don't have a list of the games when Rasheed got technicals, but it just seems that Rasheed had a quiet period in January when he didn't get many (or any) technicals, but we were losing games. He was getting technicals one after another earlier this season but we were winning games. Rasheed's technicals could be correlated with his energy level. Being suspended games is obviously a problem though.

Rondo's 2 game streak is surprising, but for whatever reason, I find it refreshing.  The taunting call shouldn't have been a T since the Lakers were taunting on every other basket. Flinging mouth guard in the direction of refs (be it by accident or not) after he got killed on that screen was a release of emotion that we rarely see. That kid has some fire in him that I hope will eventually translate into 4 quarters of aggressive basketball.

[tbdeawh]

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[Drucci]

What Fairweatherfan posts is correct. Basically every ref in the league is sick of Sheed. He never shuts his mouth, complains on every foul, and basically the refs are sick of him. This obviously does lead to some undeserved T's, but his reputation proceeds him. He'll never change though, so we should be prepared for a couple of suspensions in the last 29 games.

Please stop saying that Sheed always talks and complaisn to the refs during every single game because that's not true. I've seen Sheed stay quiet multiple times this season, and acknowledging he did foul his opponent by raising his arm to the air.

Have you ever seen LeBron's reaction after he gets called for a foul? He is the superstar that gets called for the less fouls in the league (how strange is that, to begin with?), and when, by miracle, he gets called for a foul, he reacts like a spoiled children by screaming his disbelief, going to the other side of the court, then coming back to argue with the refs for 5 minutes, he shakes his head in disbelief the whole time, and he never gets called for a T. On the other hand, Sheed screaming "and one!" after a basket guarantees him a T... he got 3 T's for "and one!" this season.

There is clearly a personal bias from the refs against Sheed. He doesn't help his case at times but it's unfair to see Sheed getting called for T's at a higher rate than every other player in the league just because, well, he is Rasheed Wallace and he has a "reputation".

And every star complains to the refs during the entire game so this is not a valid point as to why Sheed is called for T's so often, while the stars don't.

[CoachCowens]

What Fairweatherfan posts is correct. Basically every ref in the league is sick of Sheed. He never shuts his mouth, complains on every foul, and basically the refs are sick of him. This obviously does lead to some undeserved T's, but his reputation proceeds him. He'll never change though, so we should be prepared for a couple of suspensions in the last 29 games.

Why are they not sick of Kobe then? He complains every time someone breathes on him wrong.

[GreenFaith1819]

Well this is a good thing. This is his second one he has had rescinded this season.