Texas Chuck wrote:Bob8 wrote:
It must be hard to be the first non biased fan in the history of the game.
It's wild to me that you guys get offended by me trying to have objective rather than homer takes. Or to claim I'm actually a Grizzlies fan because of a private joke bit of flair.
But I'm also fully capable of going full homer. Just bring up Dirk or Barea or Ferrari Doe. I'm just never going to do it in regards to the refs. So sorry guys for letting you down.
This isn't me saying look how objective I can be. This is me giving my honest take. My honest take is that was a bad call. Nothing more nothing less.
But I also can't read this thread and pretend a bunch of posters aren't fixated on the officiating because they are.
It's not about refs, it's about being politically correct at all costs. I'm sure OKC posters are more than capable to defend their position, especially those who think that D on SGA and Luka is the same and they're officiated equally. Especially if they started debate.
Whoever watches half objectively what Dort is doing, not only in this series, can't say that he's playing normal D. He's basically hand checking all the time. I'm ok if that's allowed in playoffs, but strangely enough every similar action by DJJ, Kyrie or others is penalised, when that happens to Shai. And no, there can't be different rules, if one is 230 and other 190. Or you can simply compare officiating of Kyrie and Shai. They're the same weight and one is getting all calls and other 0.
What do you think would have happened, if Dort was guarding Shai? Would he have lasted more than 1 Q before fouling out? Not with criteria Mavs defenders are officiated in this series.
This's not debate about single wrong calls, which we can see in every game on both sides, referees can't see everything and made good decisions always, but a debate about how 1 player is allowed to play totally different level of aggression and contact than others.