David Blatt is a former NBA coach

[TitleTown]

Also if he were to get ejected there is a ton of experience on the bench to support Lue

It has been shown especially in the playoffs that a coach making a point can have a positive effect in a series

Evidence?

 

[David.]

I have yet to see a reasonable explanation as to how exactly does a technical to the head coach make officials suddenly start calling the game differently?
You would think that if a ref is biased against us, double t-ing the HC would just be another call to push his will on the game.

How will Blatt getting a T affect the ref's decisions exactly?

Read donaghys stuff, like about George Karl.

Everyone's human and respond to behavior

 

[cavsfever]

Evidence?

I can think of lots of examples where coaches complaining about the refs in a playoff series seemed to have an impact. Especially when they do it in the press conferences. I really think that if Blatt had been more aggressive about that in the Celtics series we could have saved ourselves some trouble

 

[Adam]

I can think of lots of examples where coaches complaining about the refs in a playoff series seemed to have an impact. Especially when they do it in the press conferences. I really think that if Blatt had been more aggressive about that in the Celtics series we could have saved ourselves some trouble

I can't remember but do coaches get fined now for talking about the officiating in the press conference. Phil Jackson was a master at that

 

[The Process God]

It sends a message to the ref's and usually changes the way they call the games against us in the future, its extremely important especially when you have a valid point IE: Illegal Dirty Moving screens(Warriors bread and butter), Verticality Rule ect....)

If you say nothing and do nothing the refs will not change, so yes it is extremely important to make a stand when you need to.

obviously if the game is being called fairly which most times it is, there is no need to say anything, but when a guy like tony brothers is standing 1 feet away from a blatant foul and does nothing, you go off on him so in the future he will make the correct call.

I just imagined Blatt straight up punching the ref. Literally busted out, laughing hysterically.

 

[Chris Parker]

Evidence?

I did some googling...

"I'm not looking for a break," Sloan said. "I've always said, they should just try to be as consistent as possible, and I point out when they're not. I've never felt like I got an advantage. I felt like I got my emotions out."

That's good, his players say, because the theory that complaining to an official will earn extra consideration on future calls just doesn't hold. "In fact, I think they get mad at you, because they think you show them up," said Jazz forward Matt Harpring. "My experience is, if you get on them early," you'll regret it later.

"I think sometimes it has a negative effect," added assistant coach Phil Johnson. "If I was an official, it would."
http://archive.sltrib.com/printfriendly.php?id=3420296&itype=ngpsid

Donaghy himself only makes picks for the NBA, using his knowledge of the officials for each game. “I’m the only handicapper in the country who bases his picks on the refs,” he says. He’s successful roughly 60 percent of the time — that’s about five points higher than most professional gamblers, which means that in the world of sports gambling, the name Tim Donaghy is gold.

... (it would appear you're both right)

They discuss two NBA games, and Donaghy offers his thoughts about the referees managing each. One of them, he says, “can be controlled” — lobbied by a coach into giving favorable calls to that team. As it happens, that referee is officiating a game featuring an especially skilled lobbyist. He suggests betting on that coach’s team. The other game’s ref not only “can’t be controlled,” he won’t even give the home team a typical home advantage. Donaghy suggests picking against them. That night, both his picks covered their spread and were winners for him.

AND EVEN MORE EXPLOSIVE.....

Donaghy doesn’t much watch the NBA, and when he does he just studies video of the last few minutes of games that ended with a controversy. “I’ll look for a ref’s missed calls,” he says. “In a Cleveland game in March, a Cleveland player kicked the ball out of bounds but the ref missed it and gave the ball to Cleveland. Now after the game, when he sees video showing his mistake, it’ll affect the ref’s next game with Cleveland. He feels he owes that visiting team a call. So I look for that next Cleveland game with that ref and that same visiting team. Sometimes, too, if a coach complains about a ref to the media, that ref will want to stick it up his ass the next time he works that coach’s game.” Game 2 of this year’s finals is a good example — two calls late in overtime went against LeBron James, a phenomenon so unusual the announcers couldn’t stop talking about it. “LeBron James was clobbered on a shot and no whistle was called,” Donaghy tells me after Game 2 — calls the NBA later acknowledged the officials had missed. “There’s no logical reason for ref Tony Brothers not to call that foul. It could’ve cost Cleveland the game. Just like those two no-foul calls in overtime on jump balls. The league’s lucky Cleveland won Game 2 or those three blown fouls could’ve determined the series.”

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2015/06/tim-donaghy-gamblings-golden-boy.html

Guess Tony Brothers is not somebody Blatt should mess with....

EDIT: here's Brothers' record,

http://news.hotboxsports.com/NBA/official/48

you'll quickly note, he was at the Bulls game with the Rose miracle 3, a game where bulls shot 29 FTs to 19 by Cavs. Just saying...

http://www.nba.com/games/20150508/CLECHI/gameinfo.html

if you want to get ridiculously into it, they have stats for the refs at NBAstuffer

http://www.nbastuffer.com/referee_stats

 

[Chris Parker]

On the same, but less Brothers-ly note, there appears to be three quantifiable biases, including for home team, for the team that's behind, and for teams behind in a mutli-game playoff series. (now none of these take into account the fact that the NBA chooses the refs for playoff sereies, which I think is geared toward doing just that, but that's just a hunch...)


In "Basketball: Bias Refs (full article)," the blurb states:

The study found that the probability of a foul call being against a visiting team was seven percent higher than calls against the home team. They also noted when the home team is ahead in the game, the likelihood of a foul being called against them is 6.3 percentage points higher than when they were behind. Finally, economists observed the larger the foul difference between the two teams, the more likely it is the next call will be made against the team with fewer fouls.

some interesting excerpts from here:
http://sports.stackexchange.com/questions/171/are-referees-biased-toward-the-home-team

1. "Nevill asked qualified soccer referees to analyze various challenges which had been recorded on videotape, either with or without sound. Nevill found that when the variable of crowd noise was introduced, the referees called 15.5 percent fewer fouls against the home team.";
2. "The Los Angeles Times' Douglas Farmer summed it up as 'subconscious submission to peer pressure.'"

In the blog post titled "More evidence for referee bias in soccer," Phil Birnbaum points to two studies related to European football - in the Spanish and German leagues. He notes:

Looking at games in the Primera Division in Spain over two specific seasons (1994-95 and 1998-99), they found that, in games where the score difference was exactly one goal, referees awarded almost twice as much extra time when the home team was trailing as when it was leading. More time, of course, benefits whichever team is behind, as it gives them a better chance to tie the game.

and

Also, the authors note that a German magazine, "Kicker Sportmagazin," reviews all games and posts an opinion on which penalty calls were correct and which were incorrect (both actual and missed calls). It turns out that for penalties called in favor of the home team, 5 out of 55 were illegitimate. But for visiting teams, it was only 1 out of 21. So referees favored the home team by about twice as many false positives.

In an article about NBA referees, James Downie notes:

They found "evidence of three biases: favoritism of home teams, teams losing during games, and teams that are behind in a multi-game playoff series. All three biases are plausibly profit-enhancing for the league." The authors calculate that, during the regular season, the turnover biases "equates to win probability changing by approximately 2.2% when a team switches from away to home status," and a further 2.5% if fouls are included. In the playoffs, the biases do not appear to affect fouls, but the effect on turnovers becomes nearly doubles, keeping the probability change close to 5%.​

 

[tocov]

So in conclusion, getting a technical during a game does close to jack shit as far as ref decisions go.

 

[Omar The Horse]

Q: Your initial thoughts of David Blatt? Richard Jefferson: Aw, hilarious. Really funny. Really funny. Really funny. That’s just my initial thoughts. He’s a good coach. It’s good. The best coaches I’ve seen, that I’ve been around are people that are stern but they also have a personality to make you laugh. There’s some guys that walk in and they just know numbers and they know basketball, but their personality is s—. And then there’s some people that are great guys and you love them to death and you’d have them over your house for dinner, but you wouldn’t want them coaching your kids’ basketball league. He has a great personality, he’s funny. He’ll yell at you, and then two minutes later he’ll say something to make you laugh and make the whole group laugh; that’s a rare combination in coaches today.

 

[Unbiased Expert]

How the fuck am i funny?
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7EJLoxdoI-Q

 

[Cavatt]

Did anyone watch the press after the Bucks game? Someone asked "What was with all the fouls" Blatt said, "We fouled too much" everyone was satisfied and that was the only question. I guess Blatt has like 0 fans in the press now?

 

[BimboColesHair]

Did anyone watch the press after the Bucks game? Someone asked "What was with all the fouls" Blatt said, "We fouled too much" everyone was satisfied and that was the only question. I guess Blatt has like 0 fans in the press now?

A lot of beat guys said there was literally nothing to talk about after that game, even joking with Blatt afterwards about just that...don't think that's the case at all.

 

[Cavatt]

A lot of beat guys said there was literally nothing to talk about after that game, even joking with Blatt afterwards about just that...don't think that's the case at all.

Good. In the video it felt strange and I thought they were being dicks.

 

[Chris Parker]

A lot of beat guys said there was literally nothing to talk about after that game, even joking with Blatt afterwards about just that...don't think that's the case at all.

I would have to agree with the first part. There was very little to talk about w/r/t that game. When so few starters actually play and the team shows up without energy on a back-to-back, I mean what do you say?

The refs took over that game, a preseason game, it was kinda shameful honestly, but it is preseason....

 

[letgocavs]

Just rewatching the Finals. I still think we could have won with proper rotations. I hate the argument he had no choice, but to play 6-7 deep. umm once we lost game 4 and it was obvious dudes were gassed we had no choice, but to play the bench. This series was just so winnable and I can't believe we let 2-1 lead slip.