I saw this last night and was wondering if anyone else caught this. In the 4th quarter (around 9 mins or so left) Dickau's trying to finish a layup and jumps into Yao, the refs make the correct no call. Rox get the loose ball and dump it in to Yao who promptly gets fouled and is sent to the foul line. Before he makes his FTs, Dunleavy gets T'd up for complaining about the Dickau no call. While Yao's making his FTs from the foul, the camera picks up Dunleavy talking to one of the refs. I think it was the young white guy. The funny thing is the Clips announcers made a comment akin to Dunleavy's working over the younger ref. You can actually see the ref close to nodding his head in agreement with Dunleavy. So guess what happens on the very next play after the Clips bring the ball up? That's right, Yao gets called for at best a touch foul by...the guy that Dunleavy was working over. I know coaches do this all the time, I just thought it was funny how the Clips announcers basically showed his incompetence to the viewing audience.
yea the calls have a way of "balancing" out. isnt that the rookie ref? i saw that i just figured he was nodding just so that mike would shut up. by the way in the past few years refs have been told to listen and explain things to coaches, instead of the old school ignoring.
yeah, the announcers said that the guy (Mike something) was a rookie. When I see rookie refs nod, I get worried
actually that was a foul on yao on dickau it didnt look like yao was square fully and the next play down i think the foul yao committed was on maggette which also was a foul. the refs last night were pretty good i felt. early on there was a lot of ticky tack fouls called in the first quarter which caused a lot of issues in the lineup for the rockets but in the second half they really let the guys play a lot more and didnt whistle for the little hand checks. oh and on that play when maggette flopped his head back and drew the charge on battier in the third he had the widest smile afterwards knowing he got away with it.
After the game was no longer in doubt, I did see TMac talking to one of the refs and they were both laughing hysterically. Maybe they were talking about the rookie ref?
There were several times Dickau jumped into the trees, drew contact and fell down. He never got the call.
What is the ref supposed to do? Tell him no? Of course he nodded his head in agreement, thats what your taught from day 1 as a referee to stop confrontations. And the "no call" you are referring to was a much harder foul that the one he did call.
