This is what I have always like - use the tennis concept. I used to ref pick up and intermural games - and it takes two guys just to cover the actio (nevermind the out of bounds, etc stuff. They should have one ref on each end of the court and then the two that go with the action this way there is also not a problem with players outrunning the refs (see Barry's 3 pointer that was called back during the regular season) ONE MORE THING on the poor officiating... Jordan pushed off Reggie Miller didn't
How about Richard Justice calling Dallas to win the series on ESPN radio. Just dont take what they write too seriously.
i also think this is a great idea when play is dead. he'll see what's going on at all times via the broadcast so overriding a call wouldn't take more than 15 seconds. how many times does the tv reveal bad calls? atleast 5 times a game? it would help bigtime. but for something like moving screens during play.. you'd have to have stoppage and wreck the flow of the game even more. FT's at the end of games already slow the game down.. adding challenges would make the end of games absolutely unbearable to watch. referees should be evaluated after every game.
Yeah. I definitely read that. Like it was the Rocket's **opinion** that he stepped out of bounds. I mean, it's not like we have proof say, in the form of video or anything
I agree that it's more credible for an "outsider" to say it. However, that doesn't change the fact that our writers should have also said it.
Did Johnathan Feigen even watched the freaking game? If he watched, he could at least be man enough to write "Finley slap the ball out out of bound".
You can't reverse every play. It's just impossible. But the refs could make the game more equatible by giving back a call to even things up. You miss the call on Barry? Then the next time the ball goes out of bounds on Houston, at least give them the ball to make up for the mistake. They have done that before and the teams accept it. But it didn't happen last night. All the key calls were against us with no makeups.
I don't think TNT, ESPN, and ABC can stand out, say anything bad about NBA. Those guys have the contract with the league, Fox doesn't.
And yet in the AP article: Replays showed that Finley clearly had both feet out of bounds when he jarred a rebound from Houston's Jon Barry with just under a minute left. Officials didn't see that - but they did see Barry foul Jerry Stackhouse after he grabbed the loose ball. Stating a fact is not editorializing.
GREAT ARTICLE !! Nice to see someone outside of Houston sees waht we have been seeing this entire series.
it's a fabulaous idea. about time too. why can't the nba take adavantage of modern technology? there should be no problem with the flow of the game, etc. if they allow challenges only during dead balls. Never would a basket after the disputed call be negated by a challenge. It won't solve everything but would've prevented the John Barry debacle last nite.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7722977/ Looks like Mike Celizic has a slight different opinion regarding JVG's comments and the fine handed down by David Stalin, er, I mean Stern.
That has to be the best article I have read in a long time. Even if I think the Rockets could of/should of won the game if they made their free-throws, I am starting to really lean slightly with the opinion shared with some people who think that the refs costs us the game. What I am really annoyed at now, though, is the fact that the refs never get punished for calls like last night. I stand by my opinion. But man...I am thinking John Kerry for some reason.
I dont buy this show us crap. Each and every year coaches complain about the same shiat over and over in the playoff, why so hard on JVG this time. JVG just said a friend of his told me league is looking hard on Yao moving screen, what's wrong with that. Fugging take it to the court, I dont believe Stern would win anything.
my comment was regarding the demand that he speak up for the rockets .... if he didn't report the Finley deal - that is just a poor research job by him
One thing every fan should be asking is why the NBA when it receives this "Yao Sets Illegal Picks" trailer isn't then obligated to present a copy to the Rockets organization, so they can respond. Frankly, it's a case of biasing the refs prior to the series (an ex parte meeting in legal terms). This should NEVER be allowed in any organization. Did the league come to the Rox and say we looked at the tapes sent over by the Mavs and illegal picks were set 9 times, do you have a response? No. They simply posted it to the league officials. What disturbs me about this story is that Cuban's campaigning against Yao was not brought to the surface until uncovered publicly by JVG. In other words, the NBA process for handling complaints should be on trial, not JVG's necessary outing of that process.
