NBA Admits Referee Mistake in Celtics Game

This play happened in the first half. THE FIRST HALF!!!!!!! Every Blazer who played in that game had at least two fouls. The Celtics shot 31 freethrows, and they still complain. They lost cause they got out rebounded and our bench killed them. Do not fell sorry for whiny Celtics fans.

that one point swing or maybe a portland miss might have changed the outcome, but in the end the refs were bad on both sides of the ball. they got as many calls as we did. in the ends its part of the game. at least it happened early enough in the game that they could have recovered, unlike what happened to us not long ago.

Boston got a 3 point swing from the no-call on PP’s travel.

Nah. But I can dream.

this is somehow equivalent to the Ed Hotchuli call that directly decided the Broncos-Chargers game early in the NFL season. Difference is that the should-have-been-a-fumble (ruled an incompletion) happened right before the winning TD pass at the end of the game. (Hotchuli got off the hook big time when the Chargers came back to take the division in the end.) The 6-man screwup happened, as it had has been noted many times, in the SECOND QUARTER. Not only was it the C’s prerogative to be knocked off their games (if that in fact really happened) by the call, many other could-have-gone-either-way or bad non-calls, favoring both teams, happened in the second half, including Pierce’s blatant, uncalled travel on the late 3-point play (a fact that honest Boston fans have acknowledged).

Refs make decisions throughout an entire game that result in points unduly being given or taken away. This particular decision was merely very noticeable.

that a 1 point swing affected the outcome comes from the fact that they were forced to foul in the final minute as they were down one instead of tied.

I agree that a mentally tough team should get over this. Note to whoever plays the Celts in the playoffs, run a 6 man play and you will shatter the Cletic’s confidence. Also, there were blown calls that gave the Celtics more than 1 point.

What a bunch of whiners.

I love watching KG give up the ball. He repeatedly passes out rather than try to score once our bigs get up on him. Watch the game, and you see he scores a bunch early from the outside with no one on him (poor defensive rotation which Nate fixes in a TO), scored on a breakaway, basically only when a big wasn’t within arms reach. KG refuses to put up a shot with any of our bigs guarding him!

If KG was really tough. he would have driven the lane ala Paul Pierce (travel or not), taken the contact and tried to score and/or go to the line and win the game.

Not only did the Blazers punk the Celtics, we punked KG up close and personal. Thank you LaMarcus, Greg and Thrilla! The legitimate threat of a block made KG tuck tail and run.

LMA, Greg and Pryzbilla went right into the mouth of Boston’s D. The Blazer bigs ruled the paint. Kudos to Blake for drawing out the defense, collapsing it with drives, and feeding the post.

Boston could have just as easily walked over to a ref before the play started and pointed out there were six men on the court and the play would have never happened. The refs missed it but so did the coaching staff and all of the Celtics’ players until the play was over.

I would be ticked off if it happened the other way but would have to admit some blame on the Blazers for not noticing it themselves. Would Boston have been happy if the refs had taken away two points from them if the roles were reversed? If the play had happened with 30 seconds left in the game I would have a bit more sympathy for them but really…do I care that they let it bother them the entire second half? That is on them.

If I am not mistaken this incident took place in the first half. Boston led by five at that point. To make a statement this affected a championship team is a bit disingenuous on the part of Doc Rivers. It would then hold true every miss call by a referee should have the same result. Ridiculous!

Boston had every opportunity to win this game but didn’t have it in them. They should take their lumps and move on.

I say we field 10 players for the tip off in the next game.

That would be worth 1 point for the bad guys.

How do ruin momentum going into halftime? All momentum is shot once you go into the locker room

This one was strange, true, but it was still just a two point swing AT MOST. If they had caught the 6 men immediately, Allen would have shot the Tech and then the Blazers would have had the ball— WITH THE CHANCE TO GET THE TWO POINTS ANYWAY.

“Tuesday, the game’s result will not be changed.”

 Does this imply that the Celts protested in hopes of the league changeing the final score or to replay the 7 seconds?

I think they should replay the possession and try to use 6 men again. Either that or use the opportunity to cheapshot Gumby.

or is that chumps? How could one, fairly insignificant call, which was correct but odd, affect them for the whole game? They have to be more mentally strong than that, right?

even the homers no longer homer. It’s like a homer free blog. Trust me, you don’t want that either.

if there is a blog for NBA Refs that I can go Troll?!

The Celtics didn´t see there were six players into the court, obviously one of them not defended. Their bad.

If it was the Celtics with 6 players on the court, there would 5 fanposts about it here and probably the thing that fans complained about the most in the post-game recap.

That’s what I focused the post on. I definitely don’t blame people for focusing their comments on the call itself and the whining of the Celtics players and fans.

But to me it was just funny that the Boston Globe would run an article with the headline NBA Admits Referee Mistake, and when you read the article you realize that the NBA did not admit any mistake whatsoever. The NBA said, “the play was administered properly by our crew.”

I also thought the line in the article that stated, “the game’s result will not be changed” was truly hilarious. Breaking News – the NBA is not going to overturn the outcome of a game after the fact in which one team felt they received a bad call which cost them two points. In other news, the Celtics lost that game by five points.