DL aired the dirty laundry before the playoffs in 2017 on Woj's podcast. The public only gets the last 2 minutes reports, but the teams get reports for the full games and not just the close games but all games. They keep track of games in which one team has been disadvantaged 5 or more times more than the opponents(the wrong call going against the team) in a single game and the numbers were something preposterous like... like 100-15* against the Jazz in the span of those last 2 seasons.Yeah, thanks for helping make my case. There are plenty of examples like the one you cited. The league could really be transparent if they wanted to be. They must keep scores on how well the refs do from game to game and watch trends against certain teams or for other teams. This is a multi million dollar industry we are talking about, it the league isn't doing it, the teams are. They don't want that info in the public arena...the closest they come is releasing the last two minute report cards. No public complaining is allowed, retaliation by the refs goes unnoticed, tolerated, or encouraged. The Zen way is to accept reality and bend when the fierce wind is blowing in your face and let it pass.
DL played it off as the Jazz trying to figure out why that was happening. He said he didn't think the NBA are doing it on purposes or that it's biased and they thought that it might be style related (the things that the Jazz do get called inaccurately more often rather than the things most other teams do - for example, Jazz system has lots of movement off ball and they thought this is part of it because a lot of the inaccurately called fouls were on plays like that). BTW this might be one of the reasons the Jazz were one of the teams pushing for more emphasis on freedom of movement. For what it's worth I'm on the same page - I don't think it's an explicit bias or targeted treatment by refs most of the time. But I do think IT WAS THIS TIME specifically.
*Edit: Just checked the exact number - 72 to 12.