My 4 biggest gripes about officiating

by Escrote on Apr 28, 2009 1:00 PM PDT

1.) This one gets me the most. The late foul call. When the player goes up and there is contact but the official waits to see if the ball goes in before calling the foul... it is either a foul or it isn't... it shouldn't matter if the ball goes in or not.

2.) The obstructed view/reputation call. Devin Harris drives the lane goes up no contact... here comes the whistle... oh what it is from the official that has a obstructed view of the play. Here is what he is thinking: "well I coudn't see the play so it must be a foul because Harris always gets fouled when he is driving the lane." The opposite can be said of Oden. Ref: "dang it I couldn't see that play but if Maggette fell down and Oden was near him you know Oden fouled him." Refs need to stop calling fouls on plays were they can't clearly see the foul. I would much rather see a no call than a phantom call. How many times has the official from the other side of the court made the call when the official standing right there does not?

3.) The superstar treatment. Really though I am just mad that Brandon Roy doesn't get it. It was his fault though for talking about the superstar treatment after that famous Suns game. He should of taken one from Kobe's play book and just sat there with a smug smile and talked about how he should of been given a few more calls.

4.) Inconsistency. This takes me back to game 4. Oden and Przy pick up the early fouls... fine the refs are going to call it tight we will adjust... great. Then the game progresses and it is no longer a tightly officiated game. Artest and Scola are grabbing arms... Przy and Oden start to play like they were in the 1st quarter again. If the refs want to emphasize something great... do it the entire game. I am so tired of the refs changing the way they are going to officiate every 10 minutes.

Anyway I know griping about officiating is popular right now and I wanted to make some gripes about the way the game is called in general. If you have made it this far thank you and let me apoligize for the spelling errors and the excessive use of elipses (I love them).

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Inconsistency...

…is my only gripe.
I don’t think the Blazers deserved to win any games that they didn’t, because you have to be able to adjust to the way the game is being called, and a jump-shooting team like the Blazers is never going to get a ton of free throws. The answer of course is to penetrate and the Blazers, with the exception of Brandon, haven’t done this.
But if the refs aren’t going to allow the Blazers to be physical then they can’t allow pushing, grabbing, poking, hooking, etc at the other end, which they have been doing. If Joel and Oden are being put on a leash, then Scola, Battier and Artest should get the same treatment.

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by koyote on Apr 28, 2009 1:27 PM PDT reply actions

getting to the basket

to draw the foul is key, and for that reason I’m a little confused as to why Nate didn’t try Bayless. I’m no Bayless fanatic, but he is aggressive.

by The Yeti PDX on Apr 28, 2009 2:06 PM PDT up reply actions

he's a rookie

who would get no calls.

"So, then, I was like, it'd be really dirty if I put up 42. So I did!" -Brandon Roy, post-game comments after game 2 of the first round of the 2009 NBA Playoffs

by 5212872 on Apr 28, 2009 2:24 PM PDT up reply actions

and with this...

I fully expect a moratorium on “Posts Griping About the Officiating”.

No offense, scrote, I’m with you that the zebra’s are tough to deal with… but yet another post centered on one man’s take when there are like 8 other posts available to gripe in on the main page signals the beginning of the end on this topic to me.

But I like to be here. Oh, I like it a lot! Said the Cat in the Hat. To the fish in the pot.

by you'vegottomakeyourfreethrows on Apr 28, 2009 1:39 PM PDT reply actions 1 recs

LOL.

Yup.

Regarding BRoy:"Another day, another buzzer-beater. This man is so clutch he sets his body clock to go off one second before his alarm does every morning."

~Rob D from NBAmate

by twiggs on Apr 28, 2009 1:40 PM PDT up reply actions

E!!!

Escrote, Escrote!!!

STOOPID SHIFT E!!!

I swear that was an accident!

But I like to be here. Oh, I like it a lot! Said the Cat in the Hat. To the fish in the pot.

by you'vegottomakeyourfreethrows on Apr 28, 2009 1:40 PM PDT up reply actions

"scrote" you are funny freethrows...

It's spelled "PRZYBILLA."
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by RenoBlazerFan on Apr 28, 2009 1:58 PM PDT up reply actions

Redacted!

Thanks Redaction Man!

I know less than half of you half as well as I should like, and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.

by haildablazer on Apr 28, 2009 2:47 PM PDT up reply actions

I'll rec that... I just wanted to vent really... lol

by Escrote on Apr 28, 2009 1:50 PM PDT up reply actions

I am sorry.

But can you please copy this and post it to the 8 million other posts about the officiating? It’s out of control.

Regarding BRoy:"Another day, another buzzer-beater. This man is so clutch he sets his body clock to go off one second before his alarm does every morning."

~Rob D from NBAmate

by twiggs on Apr 28, 2009 1:39 PM PDT reply actions

Something to think about...

First off, I agree whole—heartedly with your first and last part of your post. The late call on fouls is ridiculous. The trend that I have been noticing is that if you make the bucket, there is no call. If you miss the bucket, then a foul is called. It is like the ref saying ‘well, there was not enough contact to affect the shot because he made it’ or ‘he missed the shot so there must have been a foul’. In this particular series, Brandon is the best ‘finisher’ on the floor. But how many ‘and ones’ has he got? While on the other end, the Houston guards rarely make the shot but get rewarded free throws on the ticky-tack fouls. This adds up over the course of a game.
I hate the obstructed call and the superstar treatment as well but I haven’t noticed either much in this series (except for Yao’s superstar no-call treatment, I guess).
The inconsistency of calls has been atrocious and also the most talked about. I don’t have anything to add.

‘OK Nic, swag on out on ‘em!’

by clinchmobb on Apr 28, 2009 1:46 PM PDT reply actions