But there is more to do. The goal should be to call as close to a perfect game as possible.
1) They say they are trying to stop the flopping and I do get the impression that things are better but it does still go on.
2) They should also be able to review close fouls that happen if game is with in say 6 pts and its the last 4 mins of the game. Something like that. I will give an example in a min. Not sure how they should implement this but something should be done so bad calls don't decide games.
3) This one has bother me a lot of the last week. Why is there not 5 second clock on the inbound. Seems so obvious. Its a set 5 second just like they is 24 per possession. They even have the clock and everything. Just set it to 5 seconds. When the ref hands off the ball, start the clock. If it expires the buzzer goes off and the red light goes on the basket. Make zero sense to me why they have a 24 sec shot clock and don't use the same clock for inbound plays.
Ok, back to reviewing fouls. This is what happened to the Wizards last night. They had rallied from like 20 down on insane shooting from 3 from Trevor A. They actually went up by 2 last in the 4th. They had been getting robbed all night by the refs but they came back anyway. Gorat and Nene has already fouled out. Then these two played happened.
First watch TA. He is playing back from Harden.
Harden walk up to him. Puts his left hand into TAs chest. Plants his left foot and pushes TA into Howard.
That a foul right there. End of play but lets go on
TA puts his right arm on Hardens left and and places his left on Harden side so he can feel where he goes. He doesn't pull on him.
Then TA gets picked by Howard and when he stops moving Harden leans his chest into him then clamps down on his right arm and pulls him into him, then flops his head back and flops.
My God. If I was TA I would be checking to see if I still had my underwear. He gets pushed, picked, pushed again, then pulled over top of Harden. Harden mugged him and TA was the one that got called for the foul lol. And that was #6 so now Nene, Gortat and TA are gone.
Now on one hands, all the things Harden did to get that call shows and extreme amount of talent and acting but he pushed TA right in the chest into Howard. Its a foul. Never mind the clamping down on TA arm to pull him and the flop at the end.
And all this happened before the in bound that was maybe at the 5 second mark, but there is no timed visual clock to refer to. They ref called this a foul on TA. They went to review it to but they could only review it to see if the foul they called happened before the in bound. They can't review the foul they called. They can't review if it was actually 5 second or not.
The result. They said it happened before the in bound. HOU to the line for 1 FTA by Harden while HOU was down by 2. He makes it. AND they get the ball back. That was a terrible call and it was happening all night. They took what was a great comeback, HOU down 2 looking to tie or take the lead with a 3 and turned it into a 1 pts game where HOU could now get a simple 2 to win. And that's ignoring foul was on Harden, should have been Wizards ball up 2 with like 10 seconds left.
HOU had 47 FTA to WIZ 16 and all of Nene, Gortat and TA fouled out. Trust me, there were tones of bad call. Obvious ones.
So then this happens.
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Howard sets moving pick
His feet never stop moving so it can't be a legal pick. He is never set.
And as he is moving into Wall, he uses him hands to actually pushes Wall in the chest.
Then he grabs Walls arm as you see in the picture. ( I guess this pushing and holding is a HOU thing )
Back to back terrible calls. The result, HOU got the one FTA they made, then the ball back and Harden scores so they go up by 1 with like .8 seconds left.
REF should not be deciding the games like this. The NBA has to keep working at improving how they call the game and how they use technology. A 5 second in bound clock being the most obvious no brain thing to do. Makes not sense why they don't have one.
Oh, forgot to mention, Wizard got called for a 5 second violation earlier in the 4th. HOU got away with not one but two close calls on inbounds LOL
Oh, and another things. With whiner Howard and The Flop Harden on the same team, HOU is now my most hated team. These two are now my two most hated players. They are punks. Now I know why MWP clobbered Harden. I hate seeing talented players play like punks and I hate more watch refs let them get away with it.
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