Players Union plans legal action over new technical foul rules

[wiley]

Well said Guava....I agree and probably overplayed the hungry-for-air time theme....as opposed to the discipline issue.

There has to be a competent way of improving things....I see no evidence that Stern is up to the task of fostering it.

[IdahoGreene]

My question is who is policing the Ref's?  Stern has given them unlimited power and put them above reproach.  I know that nobody's perfect and refs are going to make bad calls.  But I also believe that there are refs that have bias/preference and will call games based on those bias'.  There were examples in the preseason game against the Knicks where the refs called Techs on Celtic players but not on the Knicks for even worse behavior. 

Also, this rules wasn't necessary as refs also had the ability to call Techs for excessive bad behavior.  You can't expect a player to have no reaction to calls. I for one do not want to watch basketball players without emotion.  KG is not KG if you take away his passion.  Perk is not Perk without his scowl.  Are they going to call a T on Perk every time he walks onto the court?  This rule needs to be abolished or NBA basketball won't be watchable.

[nba is the worst]

Lack of professionalism goes both ways.

Joey Crawford and Bennett Salvatore being prime offenders.

IMO the biggest problem is lack of accountability and team input.

It seems to me that trying to make robots out of human beings who are putting out supreme effort while competing is doomed to failure, and will be fraught with bias fron the referees' side.