How do you think you’d handle poor officiating if you played in the NBA?

[Kblaze8855]

There are the calm respectful types like Conley who go 15 years without a tech and when he finally got one the other refs clowned the one who gave it to him for being too quick. I think it actually got rescinded. We know the opposite guys. The ones who just go crazy. I understand that it’s “important” professionally and passions run high but…I’m not that guy. I might get a couple out of sarcasm and eye rolls but I’m not about to pull a Van Exel and shove the ref(though that ref flopped). It would definitely never reach this point






https://i.ibb.co/xCtDt8M/IMG-7680.gif








Or even worse the original Boban who would absolutely have been better off knocking out the ref(which he later said he considered)….


https://youtu.be/1cfPr-D_4iY?si=Cnwqou-Em_gQfEkk



He broke his spine and never recovered. The images of him on the stretcher screaming pouring blood are…haunting.

He was kinda nice too. Life just ruined in an instant. He’s the reason all those things are covered in thick pads now.

I don’t think a ref could push me to the point I **** up my career..maybe not even a game. I’m not that easy to upset

[Kblaze8855]

Just realized the video is age restricted.

Its unsettling but not really graphic

https://i.ibb.co/TQXj3qR/IMG-2987.gif



He dropped like a sack of potatoes.

Just dead weight.

Over a ****ing call.

[highwhey]

i would crash out to be frank with you OP.

[ShawkFactory]

Who is that in the first clip?

As for the question, I don't believe I would ever be mad enough to touch the ref. Maybe yell at him or throw the ball into the upper deck at most.

[Kblaze8855]

Guy from Argentina named Elvis Bowling. Something along those lines. He was banned for life after that.

[SouBeachTalents]

I've always found flipping out at the officials to be such a waste of energy. When I see baseball managers go ballistic, run onto the field, scream in the umps face, I guess it's some display of macho behavior and they think it'll fire up the team, but I always found it weird. One of the pivotal keys to sports is to keep your cool under pressure and through adversity, flipping out over a bad call not only isn't going to help you, it's not even going to change anything.

It would have to be an infamously egregious call for me to have a noticeable reaction to it.

[highwhey]

I'm actually already close to crashing out because how shitty this forum's servers are.

[bison]

I’m a choke da damn ref

[Yes or No]

Every single fan ever that has any ounce of care in their bones at all about integrity or the outcomes of a game would absolutely lose their shit in a game 7 of the Finals if some ref decided to let a guy blatantly foul the shit out of a guy with the ball at the buzzer on a series deciding shot.

Go guard prime James Harden for a series with his maximum level dishonest antics and tell me you wouldn't lose it for at least a moment. Yeah right.

[Yes or No]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_z5Ro6bSSQ

Anybody would lose it over this shit.

[Axe]

Maybe walk out if it becomes too extreme and out of control.

https://c.tenor.com/uqDw55JlW5QAAAAC/tenor.gif (https://i.ibb.co/RpQNPqx/IMG-20221122-211833.jpg)

[HylianNightmare]

Shrug and get back on D

[jstern]

https://i.ibb.co/TQXj3qR/IMG-2987.gif
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If his opponent hadn't flopped, he would likely still be alive today.

He got a standing ovation before he died.

https://youtu.be/JyhCzDmLVi0

6'8", all that weight concentrated on his neck.

I don't know if Axe is the type of autistic kid who requires a helmet, but he needs to learn to maintain his cool, because if he's the type that likes to slam his head into walls, a helmet is not going to help him. Because it's all about the momentum of his massive body getting concentrated on his vertebrate. A helmet won't save him.

And I suspect that Axe is a 7+ footer, due to likely growing up with low testosterone, high estrogen levels (http://www.insidehoops.com/forum/showthread.php?518898-Brittany-Griner-says-WNBA-fans-are-screaming-racial-slurs-at-her&p=14946454&viewfull=1#post14946454), so he's carrying a lot of weight. And it's not relative, I suspect the taller he is, the higher chances of him hurting his neck when he accelerates his head into a wall.

[Full Court]

Well you could handle it like Lebron....

https://s.yimg.com/ny/api/res/1.2/d5Py9NQMl.tDOhoFD18_oA--/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTI0MDA7aD0xNjIy/https://s.yimg.com/os/creatr-uploaded-images/2025-04/4a9f9c40-1dac-11f0-b57b-63dc887311d1

Or show the ref who's boss.

https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fmedia1.tenor.com%2Fimages%2F26af1 f45f2113e33c94e92debc8d0588%2Ftenor.gif%3Fitemid%3 D11270933&f=1&nofb=1&ipt=ac18cb9e741f48cc98d29837c3680b5f096a213b56e389 a02cec25ad3b7e2059


:lol

Nah, in all seriousness, basketball reffing is a tough job. Bad calls are going to be made. It's part of the game. I'd move on and play.








And Axe is still a stinky loser. Consensus biggest loser on ISH in fact. :roll:

[bdonovan]

It's a lot of psychology. If you cultivate the reputation of a tough guy, they allow you to scream in the ref's face w/out a tech - because that's become their expectation.

If you're a "nice guy", you raise your voice once, it's a tech. Biases abound and there's no one consistent style of officiating the game, esp. when it comes to techs.

Overall I don't think we realize just how mentally strong pro players are to get hacked with no call in a tight game, and then be called for a fingernail foul on the other end and keep your calm.

[BarberSchool]

Enough control to never physically assault a referee with any sort of strike.

But I can’t guaranteee anything else.

Would likely:

1. hawk a huge phlegm loogie directly onto the face/shirt of a zebra.

2. If I had a long career, at least one ball punted into stands.

3. Squirting water bottle directly onto hairpiece of commentator.

Type sh!t.

[Kblaze8855]

Id say spitting in someone’s face is worse than shoving them or even punching them. I’ve had someone spit in my face. We were kids and I was in the room with him, his brother and our mutual cousin so it didn’t go that far, but I was ready to fight to the death. I was something like nine years old and if I had the means, I’m not entirely sure I wouldn’t have killed him before I regained my composure. It was the maddest I can remember being in life before I reached the age of dealing with maddening women.

I think if you spit in the refs face, he would probably straight up fight you. The one Nick Vanexel shoved later suggested he was gonna go after him, but I believe Shaq kind of held him. Not really holding him back, but he just kind of put a hand on him and reminded him where he was. If he had spit in his face? I think they go to war.

The old refs at least wouldn’t play that. They don’t rarely show it but right before the famous 1976 double overtime Gar Heard turnaround shot to force another overtime the fans thought Hondo ended it and rushed the court and one of them attacked the ref when he said there was time left. The ref straight up fought him if I remember correctly.

[tpols]

Enough control to never physically assault a referee with any sort of strike.

But I can’t guaranteee anything else.

Would likely:

1. hawk a huge phlegm loogie directly onto the face/shirt of a zebra.

2. If I had a long career, at least one ball punted into stands.

3. Squirting water bottle directly onto hairpiece of commentator.

Type sh!t.

Only a coward or fool would do those things brodie.