mattg wrote:The Lakers have been employing the Draymond Green tactic of literally hacking every single play and forcing refs to make a call. Refs in general don't want to call fouls on AD and Bron because they are stars who go absolutely berserk if they get called for a foul so they don't and also just like with Dray, eventually refs stop calling obvious fouls on role players because otherwise they'd foul the dude out in 5 minutes of play. Dwight Howard literally got away with hacking Jokic off ball nonstop last series. Just the way NBA refs are. When you push the envelope, you get more leeway and are allowed to foul repeatedly without getting called. It's a broken system for everyone, not just like the Lakers benefit.
The way you change this is simple. You make it so that any player even talking to a ref at all is an instant technical foul. You completely remove the player/ref interaction from the game. Coaches do all interacting with refs and players are not allowed to speak to refs whatsoever. It works just fine at every other level of play where players literally don't say a word to refs (or if they do they are teched instantly), but the NBA has let it get out of control and it's ruining the product by breaking up the natural flow of the game.
It was the same in Cleveland. Scrubs on Lebron team can smack and hold and fall into their guys and then cry to the ref when it's finally called 1 out of 7 times. The Raptors had to play a full almost 3 quarters straight against the Lebron Cavs in the 2016 playoffs where the entire Cavs team did not commit a foul.
Like you go through have a third quarter and an entire fourth quarter with no fouls....
And then no fouls at all next game for the first quarter and another 4 mins until dahntay jones is called for one.
What is even worse, is that this nba players complaining constantly is normalized for the children in the next generation. So they can see its ok to verbally berate, yell, and intimidate to achieve success.. In aau, in highschool ball, and in life
