Grizz not getting enough calls.

darkangle901 · Post #1 » by **darkangle901** » Tue Feb 7, 2012 4:15 am

This is just something that's been bothering me, and I was again reminded of it tonight watching us lose to the spurs.

I know every fan probably thinks his team doesn't get enough calls. But I think we have a more legitimate complaint.

The FTA count was even tonight (21 to 21), and that's the problem. The Spurs shoot a very high number of jumpshots, and when they are in the paint, there are a lot of non-contact shots from Parker and the other guards. In other words, they are a finesse offensive team.

The Grizzlies are not. Most of our offense is in the paint, and nearly everything we get there is body-on-body, hands-on-arms.

I can't find official statistics on it anywhere, but it seems like the Grizzlies as a team are near the top of the list in FG attempts in the paint. And yet we're only middle-of-the-pack in FTA (14th).

I can see teams like Denver (who just play a lot faster and therefore have more opportunities to get there) outshooting us at the line. I can see teams like Miami - who have 2-3 guys who are just flat out unguardable going to the basket a lot of the time - outshooting us.

But teams like SA and OKC who rely heavily on jumpshooting should never get as many FT's as us. And yet they have, I believe, in all 6 meetings this season.

I don't know what's going on. What I do know is that I have had to throw away a lot of my stuff in recent weeks due to breaking them in anger while watching this unfair officiating.

I just feel like as long as we're playing our typical offensive game, we should average 10-12 FTs per quarter. But I guess the refs don't see it that way.

mid-post · Post #2 » by **mid-post** » Tue Feb 7, 2012 11:21 pm

I've been pretty busy lately so I've missed the last two games, but I definitely think there have been a few games (at least 1 definitely against phoenix) where the officiating has cost the bears the game.
Hopefully they can just work their way through it and hope the calls wind up balancing out over the course of the season. We need our ZBo back too.

vanjulio · Post #3 » by **vanjulio** » Wed Feb 8, 2012 2:12 pm

a lot of it is frustration and another symptom of the compressed schedule. we have a natural bias against our team and when things are going smoothly it doesnt show as much but when things get rough then naturally the refs favor the other team. it's memphis