The Refs and Yao

[coolblade587]

Who is a good video editor? Please work with me for the last few games (that Yao has played) and make a video of all the illegal contact that every defender has got on him. It's a blasphemy.. I don't want to blame the refs for the game tonight against Philly, but if they take our MAIN OPTION away by the refs, how do you expect to win? I mean everything goes through him, and the refs just let everything go... I'm tired of this. Anyways, if anyone does want to make that video with me, please feel free to let me know. Thanks!

[CuttingEdge]

It's been known for years. I blame it on the man with the ultimate power, David Stern. Some say to make it a guard's league. But look at what they can get away with when there's no premiere guard in the game... Yao is unfairly called each and every game and Stern probably has alot of footage but lets it go.

[PocketRockets]

It's very consistent also, so you know they talk about it....and say, "hey let them hack this big man...they can take it." A foul is a foul. They defensive player doesn't have to fall down for you to call it a charge...and if a player falls down, it's not automatically a charge. Same with if you bump a guard and he falls/stumbles, you call a foul...if the same bump doesn't make the big man fall...is it then not a foul? WTF The refs are pretty horrible. Blahh blahh they have a tough job...don't give me that crap. When refs in college are making calls that "pro" refs can't/won't make, there's a problem with the establishment. I don't know if it's stern or some other head of refereeing, but they need to change that ****. There's a reason big men don't last as long in the league and it shouldn't be because of excessive physical play. If they cleaned that $hit up, this league would be more entertaining b/c it'd actually be true basketball. It wouldn't the crap "basketball" that you see now-a-days and maybe then we'd actually dominate in the olympics/world games again.

[jzmagik]

What's the point, they've been getting away with it for years. I doubt anything will change.

[coolblade587]

What's the point, they've been getting away with it for years. I doubt anything will change.

It's not even like Dwight Howard. People say Dwight Howard isn't respected by the refs, Yao is hit 10x more than Howard, there's no way Howard gets to the FT line 11 times a game just for being athletic. That's just BS.. I'd also like to add Yao > Dwight.

[kam_soluusar]

The way I see it, Stern likes seeing a guard posterize a centre, (How many Made a poster out of Shawn Bradley???) It's not just the NBA though, it's everywhere.

I know you cannot compare the NBA to the crappy brand of Local ball I play. However, I am one of the biger guys in my league, (6'7" or 201cm) and I constantly get "no calls", or blocking fouls called on me for standing in front, and taking the charge. It goes back to that whole flopping debate in recent weeks. I don't "Flop" because I am soft, I can take most hits given to me, even though I only weigh about 85kgs, (Under 200 pounds for those who still live in the dark ages and have not gone Metric yet!!!!) I have to hit the deck, or otherwise I won't get the call, but as soon as I make the most minor amounts of contact, bang, there is the offensive foul. I call it Small mans syndrome, Yes you can be successful at Basketball if you are short, but it is a hell of a lot easier the taller you are.

The same can be said for Yao, He's big, so he should be able to take the hit's. This irks me, because players that are smaller, get the call. This is how fights start in the game, defence is pounding a player, and they get fed up eventually. I would also like to point out that the switch to "Zone D" has meant that you can swarm a big man in the paint. Fouls were more obvious in the days of Hakeem, Ewing, Robinson etc. Because if they air-balled a shot from the post, well it didn't happen, they had to have been fouled. It's not as obvious anymore.