I'll watch my beloved Celtics only. I'm so sick of Stern and his league! That Anthony Parker 3 was the last straw for me. By itself, it's not a big deal, but giving the refs more power with this technical business banning upside down headbands when there are more serious problems plaguing the league? What is wrong with this guy?
Anthony Parker had one second, but was given 2-3 second to catch the ball, wind up then shoot. The play was reviewed and they still allowed it. Remember Baby's 3? They reviewed and it was not allowed. They were correct on Baby's 3. But they were wrong on Parker's. No excuse for getting it wrong after reviewing it.
I don't blame the refs for the loss last night, because the Celtics let the Cavs hang around so that the refs were able to have an impact on the outcome of the game.
I'm just so sick of these refs and Stern. While they may not be doing any fixing of games, they are so incompetent that it looks that way!
I'm done.
I think they made too much about that 3. First off, even though there was a 1 on the clock, it could have been 1.99999 seconds, and we wouldn't know. Second, he didn't take as long as some people say. Maybe they started the clock half a beat slow, but I don't think its a given.
More importantly though, how could the refs take that off the board? Unless there was irrefutable evidence that the clock was not started on time, then they had to leave it up there.
Basically, that was just a classic case of the home court advantage. It happens all the time, but doesn't always involve Mike and Tommy complaining to make it look worse than it is.
This is not correct. 1.9999 seconds would show as 2 seconds on the clock. So the most that the could have been on the clock was 1.000000. And I mean, this most.
I actually timed it after the game and I came up with 1.45 seconds for that one second to come of the clock. Make no mistake about it, we were jobbed on that play. But more than likely, it was the clock operator giving the hometown aid there.
Hmmm, I think your right. But still, even if it took 1.45 seconds, that means that the clock person may have taken 0.451 seconds to start the clock. The average reaction time for people is generally about 0.3 to 0.4 seconds.
To put this into perspective, in a scientific study that looks at reaction time, generally, it would not be considered a lapse or abnormal, unless it were greater than 500 milliseconds.
So basically, there just was nowhere near enough evidence for the refs to overturn that. Clocks always start a little bit late (or early if they anticipate too much). It just was unfortunate that in this case, it hurt the C's. But the refs had nothing to do with it, and could do nothing about it.
