The inconsistency of the officiating lately has been rediculous. It seems like all they're doing is trying to fix bad calls with more bad calls. If they make the good, right call at the beginning and stay consistent with the call this would be way less of an issue. Not calling something all game then calling it at a crucial time leads to the NBA having to come out and apologize for missing calls, which shouldn't happen 3 times in thefirst round. Understandingly the officials won't get everything right and no one should expect them to, but you should expect fairness and consistency and that is lacking big time in the NBA right now, and I've seen it in every single playoff game so far
Seriously dude?! Take off your homer glasses, the Warriors got shafted and game 1 was just as bad on the Warriors as it was on the Clippers side.
Realistically, yeah, it was a foul, and if it happened to my team I'd be pissed, but it wasn't nearly as bad as everyone is making it out to be. For one thing, he pushed off to clear space. The foul was on the body and the refs don't call that nearly as often (the touch on the elbow was almost impossible to see in real-time). The shot was an airball because of the foul as much as it was Stef flailing back to exaggerate the contact-- same thing a lot of you accuse CP3 of doing. And there's that thing of refs not calling touch fouls in the last play of a game, which is dumb but pretty standard. Also, even if they call that and Stef makes both (it was a 2pt foul since his toe was on the line), Clipps get the ball back tied with 2-3s left and a much deeper team should it go to OT. As far as I'm concerned, 2-1 is the correct score in this series so it all evens out.
IS the average salary of an NBA referee really "$150,000 to $550,000, depending on experience" ? http://www.ehow.com/info_7750626_average-salary-nba-referee.html
The shot was an airball b/c CP3 hit Curry's elbow. It had nothing to do with Curry's flailing. Curry flailed after the ball was released.
He also flailed the shot before and tried to do the same thing to Matt Barnes so I know the refs saw what he was doing. Also they missed that double dribble on Draymond Green which allowed GS another basket near the end. Reggie Miller was the only one who called it out perfectly.
Paul deserved 3 free throws and Curry pushed off. Not sure why there wasn't any whining when Paul was blatantly fouled in game 1 and BG got bogus fouls that made him foul out.
Btw I am not saying Paul didn't foul Curry. It was a blatant foul. If refs were competent it would be 2-1 either way. With the Clips winning 2 at home.
I am curious why they didn't give CP 3 free throws because he was in the act of shooting when he got fouled.
Yes, with the current review process where the ref's get together, review from a monitor, then get together to make a decision is way too inefficient. They are changing it so they just put it up to a central source, that would cut the review time by at least half. Then it would be more practical then.
That spread was weird as **** and my guess is they wanted the warriors to cover it without winning the game. They get all of the money from the people who bet on the warriors to win the game at home and trying to double their money and also the money from the people who bet on the clippers to cover the spread because the money line was not worth it. It is not hard once you factor in line, spread, and over/under.
This doesn't make any sense at all if you are talking from the POV of Vegas & other sportsbooks, which it sounds like you are. They force the lines to balance so it doesn't matter what happens. This was strictly a referee decision so the only way your theory makes any sense is if the refs were gambling on GSW to cover. But if that is the case, they sure went about it in a weird fashion, relying on Curry to hit a few BS threes down the stretch.
There have been some terrible calls against the raptors. But just in general during the Brooklyn-Toronto game there were quite a few bad calls.
I feel like Refs are being told to keep the games close...everytime a team gets a double digit lead...here comes a 4-Point play...I have never seen so many in such a short span
I included that terrible call in this thread. So I was whinning long before that. I started this thread in the regular season because there were just to many missed calls and and strange rules (like the taunting T, which is funny because if they were really strickt with the taunting and complaining T, they could have called it about 20 times during the Rocket game, JVG even mentioned this). Agreed, But I prefer that the teams get to this point with competent refs. I have said many times in this thread that i do not think the refs favor the Clippers.
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