2023-24 Season | Game #60 | Knicks @ Cavs | March 3, 2024 | 7:00 p.m.

[Wham with the Right Hand]

Strus, Wade and Niang combined for 6 points, -16, 2-14 from three and five rebounds in 65 minutes... If there's a place to point to where lack of production hurt, this is where it stands out most...

Yep, we lost Mitchell and nobody except Merrill stepped up. The Knicks lost Brunson and DiVicenzo, Hart, McBride, and Bogdanovic responded.

 

[Pierre Pan]

 

[Pierre Pan]

 

[David.]

I don’t think he’s liked much around the game.

The coaches and players do (or at least they did) provide ratings of officials at season end but those are very closely held within the NBA HQ. I don’t know how much those influence playoff assignments or referee retention. There is a referee union and unions tend to insulate their members from individual performance evaluation consequences (one of the selling points of unions).

I do think NBA officiating is a damn difficult job. I wouldn’t want it.

I‘d like to see a referee basketball game at all star weekend officiated by three players. Have the refs coached by argumentative NBA coaches. The referees would try harder than the players did last game out.

I umpire beer league softball and it's a nightmare, can't imagine the pressure of officiating in the pros on TV in a sport where so much is going on