Originally posted by koolruningz
Geshien, i feel your pain buddy. You guys are playing 5 on 8, the refs are doing everything they can down the stretch to take the game away from the Magic. Bogus call to send Bron to the line to tie and then they miss a blatant foul on D12, where amazing happens right?
Tell me about it. I had my head in my hands throughout most of the game.
Every time that Lebron attacked the basket, whistle. Every time Dwight went, nothin.
Frankly, the game was horribly officiated. Both ways.
The Magic came out sluggish throughout the first half and the Cavs were playing with something to prove and to survive. Thank God for Alston.
He was huge in the fourth (had a career high in points, I believe), as was Pietrus. Which is so much sweeter considering all that talk Mo made.
One thing I'm real sick of, besides that stupid looking, Anderson "I've got pubes on my head" Verajao, is the dumb ball that the Magic continue to play. From the bad passes resulting in way too many turnovers to chucking up too many three's. And it shouldn't take three quarters to turn it up.
That said. 3-1, baby.
Refs missed an offensive interference call on Dwight in OT, but it was still one-sided to the Cavs. ESPN is paying the refs to make sure it's Kobe vs. Lebron, as is Stern.
Oh, and that might have been the worst technical I've ever seen called on Dwight. That was NOWHERE near being close to even being considered a technical.
Originally posted by SmasandianNo, the calls would be as inconsistent as they are now, and they would still miss calls as well. Lebron and Wade will still get their foul shots from phantom fouls irregardless of whether there are new ref or not.
Having better trained refs would improve the consistency of reffing alot more than a review system. A review system should effect plays where subjectivity is not in question, aka - did the guy step out of bounds.Also, in football - a system that you said could implemented but change to fit basketball allows the ref to change the play with evidence that can be proved completely. With a foul, well, how can a ref see that it wasn't a foul when there is usually contact? I understand there are instances that a player is called for a foul when no foul occurred, but how many times does that happen? Once a game, or two games? There is no reason for implementing a system for a play that doesn't happen frequently.
What you would get is a coach asking for a play to be reviewed on a foul, well, it would be called a foul because there would be contact.
An easier solution would be to train the refs better and hire younger refs that can actually keep up with the players. A review system wouldn't fix anything. A football referee doesn't think that he shouldn't make a mistake while he is making the call. He makes the call that he thinks is correct.
They can see if it's a foul or not based on there discretion, sometimes it's obviously no contact, that would be an easy call. You act like having the option of reviewing a play would somehow not be beneficial at all, when I don't see any down side to it, can you think of some?
Ok, it is still called a foul after the review...and? I'm not really seeing the problem, there would be cases where the call would stand, and others where it wouldn't.
Yea, hopefully all the refs are making the call that they think is correct, what that has to do with the topic at hand, I don't know. If they are able to review the call, they will know their call is correct, at least know to the extent that it's possible.
Btw, Stern would like replay, saw this after I posted.
http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/playoffs/2009/news/story?id=4167920
Originally posted by guy222
Great gameDwight came alive in OT
Cleveland should've got a better shot off with three ticks
Magic up 3-1...Cleveland's in real trouble
They had no timeouts, and the Magic were waiting for a long pass, there was no way they were getting any closer to the basket unless Peyton Manning was throwing the inbounds.
Originally posted by DanZeke25
They had no timeouts, and the Magic were waiting for a long pass, there was no way they were getting any closer to the basket unless Peyton Manning was throwing the inbounds.
And the thing is, it shouldn't have gotten so close. I feel in a lot of ways that the Magic didn't deserve the W.
They didn't come out with defensive intensity.
The Cavs played harder and even though the Magic are better, they are fortunate to win.