Do you ever watch the NBA and wonder
what the hell is going?
You know when you say,Whoa
I just clearly saw on the replay Patrick Ewing's
hand guide LJ's 3 point shoot into
the basket
how come the referees don't call
him for goal tending?
Or remember the Christmas eve classic,
when Jalen Rose got elbowed two times
and then punched in the face by
Kurt Thomas,
Jalen Rose didn't do a thing while
and after the beating.The whole world saw
that ,except the referees, most
people in the stadium
knew what happened,except the people
who really should of known the
referees, who then just threw both
of them out of the game.
Also i thought in the LA-Portland
and LA-Pacers series Los Angeles often
cashed in on critical calls,especially
in the final game
of the playoffs the referees decided
to just give the Lakers a second chance
anytime their offence messed up,
by awarding them
with free-throws.
Interesting is also the "no staring"
rule which first was used when Rasheed
Wallace looked at an referee a little
too intimidating, but
'sheed knows better now,in the future
he knows he'll have to walk around
with a fake smile he should not
even consider looking
at an referee longer than 10 seconds.
Then there are the special-calls
for superstars and veterans like
Ewing,Malone,Kobe,Vince,Grant Hill
etc.(doesn't quite apply yet for
Orlando's "superstar" Tracy McGrady,
neither does it apply for someone like
Michael Finley who should be a superstar)
These come into power when Kobe
decides to run the offence with a little
travel,or when Vince uses one of
his elbows to push
his opponent to get a clear shoot
off.
Why call a foul on someone who might
be the next MJ or is the hometown
favorite,David Stern knows that
if Kobe doesn't get a call
when he plays in LA the crowd isn't
going to like it and neither is the rest
of LA who watches the game on tv,and
since the tv ratings
already went down since "you know
who" left the league,NBA officials are
busy creating new heroes.
Also the referees seem to have a
hard time calling Karl Malone for those
elbows which fly around wildly,once
the mailman enters
the paint, just ask Barry Bent.He
received one of those nasty elbows in the
playoffs,once Barry got up after
lying on the ground
holding his bleeding nose, the officials
called him for fouling the mailman,
by hitting his head on Karl's elbow
,but luckily nothing
happened to Karl's elbow, good ol'
Barry should of known better.
There are four different kinds
of calls that the officials make:
1.the Superstar-call
Call number 1 is for veterans
and Superstars
2.the home crowd pleaser-call
Call number 2 is often used
in bigger cities like New York,LA
3.the human error-call
Call number 3 is when the
referee actually thinks he is right,but is actually wrong
4.the right-call
Call number 4 is when the
referee is on point.
My solution to this mess is: NBA officials should at least were
headpieces, by critical calls they get
told by someone who is watching
the game on a screen
and can see the game from different
angles.
Or much easier they just get rid
of the "superstar" call,the "crowd
pleaser" call and the referees work
on the "human error" call.
Which of these solution is the right
one, i don't know.
But at least I hope non NBA
officials will be deciding who wins or loses
the games in Sydney, so at least
the other teams
have a little bigger of a chance
of maybe,no they'll never beat the US, even
if Sadam Hussein,Stalin and
Fidel Castro would
be the officiating the games.
rookie tip before season start: never try blocking a superstar rather
let him dunk on,because you are mostly
likely to get an unfair judge who
will call you for a
foul.
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