Really bizarre how some Lin fans used to feel the need to compare the historical importance of Jackie Robinson breaking the color barrier to Jeremy Lin not getting played the way Mike D'Antoni played him for a few games in 2012. It happened on this board. Real Rockets fans remember that.
Yeah, that's pretty bizarre. The Jackie Robinson comparison was focused more on him as an inspiration to people of his race than anything else. Who would compare it to him not getting played the way D'Antoni played him? Reading comprehension has taken a beating in this country too.
Reading comprehension has caused you to miss my point, or to willfully misdirect as you are wont to do.
I just want the lin fans to see another perspective and that nba players get fouled hard. Lin getting fouled is nothing special. It just hurts lin fans to see that it happens to their prince
Yes, Lin getting fouled is nothing special. The fact that those fouls do not get called the same way as they are for the majority of the rest of the league is notable, as the former Director of Officials noted on Twitter. Fwiw, same thing happened to Yao. JVG used to talk about it all the time. Did you support Yao and JVG when it happened back then?
If lin is Jackie Robinson then Yao is Martin Luther King and Mohammed Ali and Nelson Mandela and Harriott Tubbman
I'm not sure what Hakeem has to do with this situation, but you're really just proving my point that referees officiate players differently. You're right, tons of players are officiated unfairly. Shaq, Yao Ming were hacked all the time. They were big men. Big men typically are harder to officiate. If you're a "Real Rockets fan" you should remember this. It was kinda big news. JVG was fined $100K for calling out the referees, and their officiating on Yao. But he only said what all Rockets fans, who watch every game, knew all along. http://espn.go.com/nba/playoffs2005/news/story?id=2051807 Other players, mostly guards, you can't even breathe on them. Before it was Kobe, Dwayne Wade, Derrick Rose. Now its Curry, and to some extent Harden. Superstar guards usually get the benefit of calls. So let's call a spade a spade. Regardless of who is in the video (take Lin out of the picture and imagine any other player). What you saw in those videos were Flagrant Fouls. Excessive contact above the shoulders. Dangerous and reckless (even if it was unintentional) also falls in the scope of flagrant fouls. Ronnie Nunn, former NBA Director of Officials seems to agree that referees need to do better. <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Am amazed & disappointed that these J.Lin plays weren't addressed via Replay. Could be judgments amongst others too! <a href="https://t.co/rikeXN9Pbb">https://t.co/rikeXN9Pbb</a></p>— Ronnie Nunn (@NunnBetterRefs) <a href="https://twitter.com/NunnBetterRefs/status/707410111556247552">March 9, 2016</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Lin video=incompetence instead of discrimination. Could Refs see his hard nosed play overshadowing what he deserves? <a href="https://t.co/rikeXN9Pbb">https://t.co/rikeXN9Pbb</a></p>— Ronnie Nunn (@NunnBetterRefs) <a href="https://twitter.com/NunnBetterRefs/status/707406521999577092">March 9, 2016</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Incompetence of Refs w/Lin too strong a word. Disturbing/Disappointing is better. Fair complaint; Video tells truth <a href="https://t.co/RngOEnOBkZ">https://t.co/RngOEnOBkZ</a></p>— Ronnie Nunn (@NunnBetterRefs) <a href="https://twitter.com/NunnBetterRefs/status/707660548842725376">March 9, 2016</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
It's not about getting fouled hard. Fouls happen. It's that the fouls (or the flagrant 1) isn't being called, or reviewed via replay.
