I'm actually fine with how the game was reffed last night. They were consistent at least. I would prefer they allow more contact and be consistent that way but the wildly inconsistent Game 1 murdered us. Several 50/50 fouls and all seemed to go against us. The early foul trouble from the Grizz were all on pretty obvious fouls.
Happy to disagree. They were allowing absolute mugging on one play and then touch fouls the next. Happened the entire game. Very poorly officiated.
I think that is the solution. Send a memo that the league will be watching tape, and players that consistently flop or offensive players that cause unnatural offensive contact will be watched, and the benefit of the doubt will start going to the defender for those players.
There wouldn’t be any refs left in a month or two. What you do is shine a light and make them available to reporters after games so they can answer questions as to why they called or didn’t call certain calls. This would make them take their jobs a little more seriously maybe add a re in some booth that can overturn calls or point out missed calls. I think the way it is is part of the game of strategy and keeps teams sharp.
Yes, it definitely would. If they combined this with a rule that made flagrant foulss even more likely to be called, I can them balancing each other out.
I think you have to make the penalty for the 6th, 7th fouls more then just sitting. Guy needs a rest and they have no time outs so the player fouls. I think beside sitting the 6th foul results in the offense team shooting free throws and getting the ball out. Like a flagrant foul type of a situation. I also think there needs to be a limit. Guys cannot get 10 fouls that would muck up the game. This probably would not happen if the penalty for getting more than 6 fouls was severe enough to diminish players just hacking away.
Uhh, if a guy was getting 10 fouls in a game he would be sitting out for a total combined game time of 24 minutes. He'd also put his team severely in the penalty.
No, hand checking is terrible.
The fifth foul on Brooks (which didn't have that much impact, he kept playing IIRC and he didn't foul out) was really ticky-tack, they should've let that go IMO. I can't believe they challenged his assault on Joe, though. That was the most obvious foul of them all.
The entire reason the league abandoned the crack-down on flopping was because it revealed how often the biggest stars use it to get calls and they realized they would more often than not be punishing a star player. Cannot mess with the bread and butter so they basically just abandoned that movement. Imagine how LeBron would be affected if they actually went after the floppers. No way the league is suspending him for multiple games, they will take too big a hit to the bottom line.
