Playoff Officiating

[SteelSmack]

The home away thing is irrelevant. You need yo look at ref+ team relationships instead. If a guy loves lbj he isn't going to suddenly call against him bc of the floor he's playing on

I agree, with the caveat that certain refs bow to the pressure of making tough calls in a hostile environment. Foster doesn't care what the crowd thinks, he'll make (what he deems to be) the right call, regardless. I'd still rather he reffed a home game than Joey Crawford. Joey hates LeBron. Makes it a point to not call fouls on LeBron.

 

[K1rieIrving>AllOtherPG's]

lebron should be averaging 20-30 ft per game this series, and I think he barley gets 10 a game!

what the hell happened to "star calls"? seems to be the other way around with bron, smh....
I'm telling you if 2006 wade or harden where in lebron shoes they would average 20ft+ easy with this insane usage rate, maybe lebron needs throw his head back like a crazed chicken, harden style

#WhatEverItTakes2Win

 

[Futuredome]

21 vs. 4. Silver got the message through.

 

[Marcus]

What's the over/under on the amount of missed calls the league is going to acknowledge from tonight?

 

[brownindian]

While not consistent - I cannot complain about this tonight.

 

[fujikuro]

While not consistent - I cannot complain about this tonight.

Not as much tonight, but these playoffs entirely have been - by far - the worst officiated games I have ever seen in all the years I've been watching basketball. The quality of the refereeing in the league is at an all time low in reference to my time as a fan.

 

[FiveThous]

I really just want the NBA to release a video on what a moving screen is.

 

[SteelSmack]

The league completely took away our biggest advantage (LeBron in the paint against their undersized team) by giving them free reign to hack LeBron. That also took our second biggest advantage away (size) because it didn't force Bogut to be in the game to defend the rim, which left us too slow, forcing us to play smaller.

All of this doesn't matter if we're healthy, as Love and Kyrie would be taking a ton of pressure off of LeBron, spacing the floor, knocking down shots that the other guys weren't hitting, letting LeBron rest for more than a minute at a time. Golden State was just amazingly lucky to have the path to the championship that they had.

I couldn't watch the last two games because it was clear what the league's intentions were. They got the golden boy his ring, so I guess mission accomplished.