2015-16 NBA Thread (feat. the Wives)

Okay, they miss calls against the Cavs. And the Spurs, and even the Sixers. This isn't about the Warriors, it's about the game in general. But if some miss calls more than others, shouldn't some corrective action be taken?

 

Do you know these particular refs missed more calls than other refs miss? Does it bother you at all that probably the biggest missed call was when Irving wasn't out of bounds but a ref said he was?

I don't know why everybody looks for all these excuses when the allegedly best team ever gets its ass handed to it. But, I'm used to bullshit like this by now, I guess.

 

I don't. That's why I'm asking if there is an evaluation system. I'm over Game 5. If there's not, should there be, to not only alleviate these questions, but to ensure games are being called at the highest level.

 

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In his case, I'd be more worried about his technical points. Next gets a suspension, and him getting into a fit at the ref or rolling his eyes at them is far more common.

 

I thought he needed two more Ts for a suspension, but it's hard to keep it all straight at this point.

 

The league admitted during the Spurs-Thunder series that the officials blew and/or missed five calls in the final 12 seconds of one game.

That's a real, tangible debacle on which the complainers can hang their hats.

 

That's true. And the officiating all around is not good.

I do not see it being something that has hurt the Warriors in any series yet. The one you could maybe point to was Livingston getting ejected against Portland after a terribly missed no-call. However, after the first technical, he did call the ref a motherfucker.

 

Honestly, Spurs-Thunder was the only real debacle I've seen. The rest is just your garden-variety mediocre officiating. But the league itself planted the seed.

 

Crazy hardcore fans and a great many casual ones go to the ref excuse all the time. It takes a lot of discipline to asses the true tone of reffing across a game and most folks don't have it (or have a feel for the ebb and flow of makeup calls etc.). Warriors fans aren't unique here, but they happen to be loud and, it sounds like, around you.

(I try to put how games are called out of mind. I'll assume a Scott Foster game will be a bit more of a mess, same with a couple other refs. But for the most part, trying to pick out individual plays and get into the nitty gritty leads you down a road to insanity, which ends with the sort of sharpened tone your second paragraph has)

 

I am just to the point where I think the refs are as good as they are going to be, and even at that, they are woefully inadequate for calling the game. That's all there is.
Are we on a 30 year streak of 'bad officiating'? Or is this just as good as it gets, and good isn't very good?

Occam's razor tells me that "it is what it is".

 

Yeah, I'm kind of in your camp. It's hard for me to believe that non-full time guys in the 1970s were magically better refs. But the expansion of replay and the development of high definition broadcasting now means that each and every mistake can be found now. Jackie Moon always had trouble with the officials, before Father Pat stopped practicing as a priest and joined the Meyer administration.