bigfoot wrote:Melon Yellow wrote:RunDogGun wrote:It actually happens more often than we expect. Even in the win against the Spurs, if we hadnt shot 50+%, we dont win that game because we shot 8 free throws on our home court, while the Spurs shot 24.
I still dont know why this continues to happen, but it has to weigh on the minds of the players. The league needs to fix the problem. Either they have fair games where fouls are called the same on both ends, or this league is a joke and not far off from WWE, but the players dont know its scripted.
Sometimes I consider whether or not it's worth it to even keep watching. I love the Suns. I love basketball, but I hate when a game is not called fairly. And I hate that it's a known thing in this league that the superstar players get extra special treatment. The Devil's Advocate argument to my point would be that the fans are paying money to see the best players. But, I'd imagine the fans are also paying money to see a game in which the play is called fairly, and neither team has an advantage due to officiating. Unfortunately thats not the case.
I went back and watched the game this morning. There was really only two calls I questioned by refs and the Sixers were victims of quite a few tick-tack calls in the first half.
1) Butler's block on Holmes at the end of the 1st half. Clearly Butler side-swiped Holmes in the head during the block. The Sixers then immediately got a 3-pointer off the block. Big swing at the end of half which brought them back to within 5.
2) The second obvious bad call was the block on Bridges when Embiid ran him over. That was an obvious charge and took Bridges out of the game for a bit.
Still, the refs miss calls. We really lost the game because of 11 missed free throws and our bench play by our guards, Canaan and Crawford. Canaan laid a big fat turd on the court. TJ McDonnell dominated Canaan and it really shows he's not even a backup quality PG.
There many obvious missed calls. Embid committed multiple offensive fouls, which were easy for the refs to see. Multiple pushes in the back. He cleared guys out with elbows,a hook with the elbow, and he straight out shoved Warren out of the way to get the room to score. All of those plays, he got an and1.
Your number one point, the shooter was fouled on that three, and i think he made the freethrow, so it was a six point turn around, which is the game right there.
I totally understand that refs are human, but this crap is ridiculous. If it is this obvious that our players will get the shaft of the calls, why would any player want to come here? Or stay?
Just looking at Tyson's per36 in personal fouls from our team to the Lakers, with 7 games for us and 6 games for them. 8.5 pfs/36min for us and 5.3 pfs/36 mins for them. I bet he is enjoying the difference.
I think overall Dragic is a decent dude who dislike bull and chaos and reacts poorly to depressing and **** situations. I would still trust him in this instance for the remaining year and 3/4ish of his contract to help.
