Dame Lillard: “The way the game has been officiated is Unacceptable “

[DaPessimist]

Love Dame, but a 6' jumper shooter averaging 8 FTA a game isn't what fans want.

Dames never been just a jumpshooter though. That's on you for not understanding how much he attacks the rim

He doesn't attack the rim that much anymore. He used to, but now he takes more 3pnt shots than he does 2pnt shots.

[CreekShow]

Love Dame but quit crying, adapt, or become average I guess. Most fans love it and the fans are the reason you get paid.

[Heej]

I don't know what people are watching but some of the hacks people are getting away with are absolutely ridiculous. I saw Danny Green literally jump on top of RJ Barrett and get awarded with a tie up. If you're shoving defenders with both arms on a drive it's a foul. F***ing call it. This is like the inverse of 2005 when they took away handchecking and refs over corrected and scoring ballooned. Now refs are over-correcting by not calling fouls. Just be consistent

[MrSparkle]

The solution isn’t going to be nitpicking and taking the ambiguous calls to the Supreme Court…

It’s gonna be making less iso drives into traffic, drawing contact.

I.E. passing the ball more, making more moves off-the-ball.

If you see a 5 cars blocking an exit, do you drive into it? We got to the point where it became a good idea to just crash into them, cause the cops will write tickets for the idling cars blocking the exit, not the driver who chose to drive into them.

[Knicks Byke]

soft.

[CreekShow]

And? I’ve seen refs not call those fouls a bunch of times this year. Players that don’t flop are even complaining. Y

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So like any other year? Have you seen how Lebron gets fouled all these years?

I don’t care about individual players. If you see a foul call a foul. You’ll casuals are praising the nba for bringing back good defense, but good defense isn’t pushing players at the rim lmaooooo

YOU are the only one itt sounding mad "casual"

[MalonesElbows]

The rule change saved the game. Will still take awhile to get some of the fans back. Harden now gets 4 free throws a game instead of 12.

[pilkoids]

The refs always over-call new rules. Things will balance out, especially when the stars start whining like this.

[Duke4life831]

No one wants to hear these guys complain. If you’re an elite star player, you should be good enough to adjust to whatever play style. Other star players are adjusting without complaining. It’s not like they’ve only changed the rules to make it harder on Dame and not the other players. Also complaining about a universally loved rule change, really a bad look.

[Hans1984]

The Bulls-Nets game was one of the worst refereed games I've seen in a while. So many bad/missed calls on both sides.

[johanliebert]

I watched the 2nd half of last nights game and can't find what hes complaining about. He takes too many jumpers, CJ had no issues adjusting to the new rules.

[jaymo123]

These new rules must remind Dame of the Olympics because he didn't play well there either.

[xdrta+]

So that makes Lillard, Harden, and Trae all complaining. Curry figured it out in the pre-season. What is taking these guys so long?

[Swag]

The only unacceptable thing is the way you're playing.

Be better.

[DeBlazerRiddem]

He misses doing all of this garbage to give him extra points.

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Agreed, I do not miss this part of his game. Good riddance to that soft stuff.


Although I will say that he isn't doing that stuff this year, what he's complaining about is on his drives to the rim where refs have always been super inconsistent.

[meekrab]

Everybody always feels like they aren't the ones doing the bad thing.

[Woodsanity]

Its great now we can see who the real stars are.

[turnaroundJ]

imo dame was a worse offender than steph or trae for the 3 point flop when shooting while running around screens. hated that move so much.

oh yup it's that exact move a couple of posts above. scratch that, he was the worst offender. whining gets you to allstar games and the top 75 but it won't get you these calls anymore.

[Sakkreth]

It's not acceptable? Then quit I guess . Fans are fine with the rule change.

[Edrees]

Yeah Lilliard sucks now, portland should trade him for westbrook since he's bad now due to these new rules. Westbrook meanwhile is the exact same player he was before the rule changes.