NBA Referees (call/no-calls)

ManuteBol69 · Post #1 » by **ManuteBol69** » Thu Apr 30, 2009 12:25 am

Dont you guys think that an NBA coach deserves the right to question a referees decisions during a game. Even if the referee made the right call/no call shouldnt a coach be able to dispute it. I understand that it would make officiating a lot more difficult but why shut the coaches up by fining them such large sums of money? What ever happened to the integrity of the game? Even if a call was blantantly false no one can say anything about it? WTF Stu Jackson and David Stern?!?!?

Mindflayer · Post #2 » by **Mindflayer** » Thu Apr 30, 2009 1:13 am

NBA coaches question calls/no-calls during the game all the time. They almost never get fined unless its in a postgame interview. Then its a tax write-off for the coach.

Dr Aki · Post #3 » by **Dr Aki** » Thu Apr 30, 2009 1:13 am

giving them challenges like in NFL would seriously disrupt the flow of the NBA already

maybe replace some existing timeouts with challenge timeouts so the refs has 2 minutes to review tv evidence regarding a challenged call??

and the players/coaches get their timeout to go to good use as well...

Erik Eleven · Post #4 » by **Erik Eleven** » Thu Apr 30, 2009 5:15 am

^ Good idea.

lakersfanatic · Post #5 » by **lakersfanatic** » Thu Apr 30, 2009 2:52 pm

I think for the cost of a timeout for a challenge or if the challenge is wrong and they'll lose their timeout would balance everything out. It a coach is adament about a call then they can do such a challenge.. if they're unsure, then leave it to the ref to do the calls.

I think it woul disrupt the game that much. At least with this, the crowd wouldn't be all pissed off after watching the replay.. hehe