Oh yes they can. They certainly have so far. If 2002 Kings/Lakers and the Donaghy scandal can't bring about change, then there will be no change. Take another bite of that sh_t sandwich..... I just can't anymore
I’d say Foster by far. With the advent of the challenges among other things, the most Hernandez can really do now to skew a game is call an awful strike zone. But for the most part he is consistent. Plus he can only work home plate once per series. Everything else that happens in baseball is far more objective and can be reviewed/challenged so far more accountability for the umps. You just don’t hear of umps getting the same reputations that NBA refs get which is so indicative of a huge problem IMO. Though in their defense maybe the concept of the foul is one of the hardest things to call in all of sports especially with the pace of the game
Unfortunately, that's not how the world works. Evil wins quite frequently. You have to defeat evil. The only way to right this wrong is to wreck the NBA with a dynasty such that they have to change the rules after we are done. We need LBJ and he needs us. Curry and Thompson were trolling LBJ at the end of the game tonight and you could see the hatred for them in his face. That alone is enough to get him here.
So, has Ronnie Nunn or someone given us an explanation or an admission of guilt when it comes to the reffing in game 7? Is there an NBA breakdown that shows and confirms all the missed calls and ineptitude?
I agree. I haven’t come since I saw our team fall when we were up 12 and refs didn’t call on three different occasions 3 point shot attempts that were clearly fouls. They fouls the arm and let the player any space to land. That’s 9 points plus the 12 point lead we had. That time were no one could score easily. Plus those no calls lead to 1 3 point made by them and one fast break too. So if they had called those 3 fouls we would have being up by 21. Then adding that they didn’t call those obvious fouls on Ariza Harden and tucker when they drive into the basket or Capela getting hack. Or calling a goal tend when it wasn’t. Adding all those points it should have been at least a 28 or 30 point lead. At least 20 points with a lot of cushion for their 3 quarter. And let’s get it straight we played close and we’ll on the third. Only the final 3 minutes is when the refs started to influence the game so the warriors could take a lead. We would never recover from those calls. Even if it was those 3 points attempts by Harden we would have won the game for sure. The refs clearly gave the game to the warriors. Just like they did to the lakers against the kings. It’s frustrating and enraging thinking this league is all bs. They knew from the start who they wanted to have on the finals. And they wanted to have the warriors win. the refs did the same thing they did on game 5. It wasn’t the so called 3qtr warriors it was the refs calling bs after bs and not calling anything for us in our favor. My believe it’s that the influence the owner and silicon valley companies have over the league. They clearly wanted the warriors to win. I remember last year or the year before hearing eddy cue rooting for the warriors. So who knows maybe their money is paying the refs. Whatever the case now I don’t care if lebron join us he should coz my bet is they will sweep them. They had their chance to win one game and they let it go. He should come and we would surely beat them
Had the refs not called things they way they did, the Rockets wouldn't have gone so flat on 3's. Those calls let the Warriors get on their role, and get the lead the Rockets felt they needed to make 3's to surmount, AND took away the desire to drive the lane, because you'd get mugged with no calls, or even mugged on the 3 with no calls (Harden TWICE). Yes, a few made 3's (heck, they could have still shot TERRIBLE and yet had 15 more points from 3), but it seemed like a case of one thing leading to the other. Those 3's and misses, as well as many GS scores, don't happen if the refs don't make/miss the calls they did. Outside of that, I thought the Rockets actually did a good job of containing their emotion and not directing it at the refs. My tendency when refs miss blatant calls is I give them a call they can't miss, and take someone OUT...if you're going to get called anyway, make them good ones. But in today's pussified NBA, that just gets flagrants, and makes the problem worse.
Forget even the win/loss angle of it. The calls against the Rockets were so awful and frequent to the point that NBA fans were robbed of a photo finish in Game 7 by the best two teams in basketball. They REALLY needed to make sure they got the result they wanted.
