xxSnEaKyPxx wrote:tsherkin wrote:xxSnEaKyPxx wrote:JV should have fouled out in the first half.
No, no that's totally inaccurate. But as others have said, the officiating was reasonably even-handed if you look at the story of the two halves in general. There were a bunch of BS calls in that game, and certainly some physicality, of course, though that's all to be expected in a postseason game. The Pacers were playing "mug the crap out of JV," and the refs were evening it out by letting him fight a little bit more... but yeah, Turner and the rest also simply couldn't handle the power he was displaying, most of which was pretty legal. A couple of the fouls on him were total head-scratchers.
A few of the fouls they called on him were head scratcers, but it evens out with the amount of times he went over the back on our guys. A few of which, he even launched himself off of our players.
I think the annoying part for most people is when a game gets called inconsistently.
Either let them play physical or don't. Its so dumb to see players get hacked at the basket one minute but then call ticky tack fouls the next.