FOR THE LOVE OF THE GAME!

[snaquille oatmeal]

we have all heard the counter aurguments. most of us accept them as part of the game. everyone is so jaded that it never makes the news and topics on it here on our board get locked faster than it is going to take me to write this post.
well, I've had enough of this crap and will open this thread anyway.

when the refs are so bad in a game towards both teams that I end up getting more p***ed about the calls for both sides than my team losing...that is saying something!

....but,

-it all evens out at the end
-the home team always gets better treatment
-this are the playoffs
-it all evens out at the end

.....yeah, these are the counter arguments against bad calls, well I call BS to those stands on the grounds that I love this game.

the blind acceptance of these moronic excuses are ruining this game that we love so much.

I am not gonna get specific on any one or two calls, but when the refs bad calls let one team make an 8 point run in the middle of the fourth quater then to make up for it let the other team counter with a ten point run on bad calls to "even it out" that just kills the pleasure of watching a great game.

I was distraught with some of the blalantly bad calls for both sides. the refs just took the life and the element of not knowing the final outcome out of this series. it is now a 3 game series and guess who will get the benefits of the calls in two of the 3 remaining games.

the visiting teams power forward got in foul trouble early in games 1 and 2 and the visiting teams point guard got in foul trouble early in games 3 and 4. sure it all evened out at the end, but I'll be danmed if you think that it didn't kill the games for the visiting teams and some of the love of the game for their respective fans.

why is it policy that the home team gets better calls? why are we so accepting of this BS? why is the media so afraid to call the refs out? I like Hubie Brown, but the old man will go out of his way not to criticize the refs. why Hubie? I loved you as the old Mormon preacher in the Poltergeist movies so why can't you grow your cojones back and haunt the refs with your words on ABC?

why aren't Jim Rome, Dan Patrick and others from the media calling out the refs? I think that if the media would make a stink about it something would be done for the love of the game.

in the end did it all even out? sure, the game was even at the end of regulation and the series was even at the end of overtime.

...so can we expect things to even out at the end of game seven?

...hardly.

...is it fair to the Jazz?

...never.

I love (yawn) this game!

go Lakers!

[timebandit]

Good point to me a foul is a foul and if you call it oneway you should call it to the other! timebandit wrote:
The whole team had a brain fart in OT!! Ther was no reason why Phil should not have called a timeout Kobe teamates kept looking fim him to finish and Kobe himself was ballhogging! Then you then there was Utah who changed their game to bullyball and got away pretty much with everything.
Utah was pushing and pulling and getting away with murder. all because UTAH CANNOT play with the LAKERS on and even plain. If this series was to be a sweep the league would be very upset at the Lakers .
And the league all it does is prolong UTAH (BLEEP) season. REMEMBER THE LEAGUE HAS TO MAKE IT LOOK GOOD. ALSO IF WE MAKE 9 FREE THROWS IT OVER!!! Thats why we have the Zone installed Shaq was too unstoppable and the Lakes had won three in a row. So they felt that they did not want one team or one man Domination!!! They feel they want to give other states and their teams a try to win! HATERS ARE WITHIN THE National Basketball Association!!!!


In addition fish did try more than any other in game four! But now its time to bring it home. Its clean up time!!!!

Q: Why did the basketball player go to jail?

A: Because he shot the ball!

[chefy]

verry good post

I really want a 100% fair game too

[TommyTheCat]

it could be worse..........we could be watching 'hack a chandler'

[Erik Eleven]

I agree, snaq. It sucks, and it'd better even out before this season is over. But, yes, I'd much rather look at consistent reffing at all times than quietly accepting favorable calls in either direction on either home court floor.

Good post.

[milesfides]

I like Hubie Brown, but the old man will go out of his way not to criticize the refs. why Hubie? I loved you as the old Mormon preacher in the Poltergeist movies so why can't you grow your cojones back and haunt the refs with your words on ABC?

P.S. I think another reason may be that the NBA is entertainment, it's a product that Stern wants to sell. You can't make everybody happy in a competition, but you can make the home crowd happy.

It's also might feed into the participatory aspect of home court advantage, when the fans feel like they have some role in the outcome of the game, i.e., the 6th man effect. Maybe fans can tolerate the idea of favoritism if they feel they have an impact on the game.

I think the owners should pay for a third party review board, not Stu Jackson and his cronies, which oversees all the officiating, and refs should be monetarily penalized for mistakes. That would ensure refs are committed to making the right calls all the time.