NBA Playoffs 2012 Thread Round II

[Beastly]

Do you mean Wade, LeBron and Dan Crawford and the 2 other refs...

[Beastly]

Kevin Garnett getting tech foul  for passing to inbound...
Doc get technical for saying what was that Eddy
LeBron James taunting KG.
Rondo's T is not a technical too.

[Beastly]

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F--k that Miami is so good already then you gave them those kind of calls?

[M.Holmes]

The Refs were pretty lame last night. They need to implement some kind of system where obvious BS calls like that can be overwritten, although I still don't believe it would have changed Boston's outcome that much

[ranger]

calm down Beastly lol, that tech with Doc Rivers was really stupid, and might be perhaps due to 'basketball reasons' from the big ol Grinch Stern.

Miami is good because of the calls, it's one of the big reasons why they are successful, Lebron and Wade get to the line so much time that it's vital for their game, so they kind of HAVE to get those super-star ref calls.

You shouldn't worry too much, Celts aren't obligated to win until they go back to their homecourt.  If they even steal one game away the Celts should be happy

[Beastly]

^We need to steal game 2 if we want a chance to beat Heat... And Spurs... wow... Too bad these kind of basketball is fading.

[M.Holmes]

I'm surprised OKC is even hanging in so close with the Spurs.

OKC had close to zero contribution from their support tonight and Westbrook has seemingly lost his mind, as well as the ability to pass the ball apparently (Not letting KD shoot more than 3 shots in the 4th quarter? Really?), not to mention how ridiculously well the deep Spurs are playing. If they can't shape up and take both home games they can kiss the finals goodbye. Their bigs need to be able to hit those easy shots and while Westbrook has athleticism, he needs to take some point guard basketball IQ lessons from CP3/TP.

[ranger]

Westbrook isn't a true PG, and has never been.  Tony Parker isn't exactly either, as he's more of a scorer and gets his assists because the defense sucks into him.  But, I've always mentioned that Westbrook will be the downfall of OKC, because, he shouldn't be shooting this much when he has the league's best scorer on his team.  But regardless, he's still a great player.

OKC isn't winning this series, I already said this eons ago; I watched almost every single San Antonio game back in the regular season, and they crushed OKC without Ginobili.

The Spurs have been playing this well for almost the entire season, they could of had a 20+ winning streak during the regular season if they constantly played their stars - it's nothing that I didn't expect, which is why I was constantly preaching that they'd win it all if no freak injuries happened to their Big 3.  Let this be a lesson to all that doubted me.

Anyways, go Spurs go!

[Jd-]

Miami is good because of the calls, it's one of the big reasons why they are successful, Lebron and Wade get to the line so much time that it's vital for their game, so they kind of HAVE to get those super-star ref calls.

All known players that go to the rim are going to get calls (which includes the Spurs).

[M.Holmes]

Rondo was excellent. Celtics were definitely robbed tonight. The Refs complete The Big Three more than Bosh ever could.

[CarpetCrawler]

Miami is good because of the calls, it's one of the big reasons why they are successful, Lebron and Wade get to the line so much time that it's vital for their game, so they kind of HAVE to get those super-star ref calls.

All known players that go to the rim are going to get calls (which includes the Spurs).

And believe me, I get that, you get that, and I'm sure guys like ranger get that too. I think what most people are sick of is how the NBA and its referees still like to pretend that they don't do it whatsoever at any point. And of course they can't admit that, but it's still very frustrating if you're a fan of a certain team and a game is essentially decided on an all-star whacking someone else in the face and getting away with it. David Stern's whole "oh our referees are the highest quality and we review the candidates every year" is a heaping pile of bull and most anyone will tell you that. If the guy has been around forever, no matter how much of a problem he has handling his own ego (Joey Crawford and Steve Javie when he was still a referee are the most notorious examples of referees who let their egos get in the way) he's going to get away with what he does.

When you have things like Dwayne Wade smacking Rondo in the face during a lay-up attempt and you're not calling it because frankly, it's Dwayne Wade, that's when there's problems. And then of course there's the infamous Danny Crawford fiasco in game one. It just makes the league look so bush league to an outsider wanting to watch basketball.

I try not to blame the referees for a game because frankly calling a basketball game is extremely hard in itself, but there are certain things that are just inexcusable, and NBA referees have made a LOT of inexcusably bad calls for every single team in this league the entire year, including even last season. It's to the point where if I were David Stern I would really seriously consider trying to figure out SOMETHING to do this off-season, because it's only going to get worse from here. Instill an extra replay system like what the NHL does with its officiating where there's extra eyes looking on from other spots, do SOMETHING, because honestly something needs to be done. I've been watching basketball with an extensive, close interest since the Michael Jordan years during the 2nd Bulls-era, and I haven't seen officiating as silly-bad as I have seen in the past few years.

I feel for Rondo. I imagine if Pierce hadn't fouled out (and, you know, if one of the refs would've called that call where Wade smacked the poor guy in the fuggin' head) the game would've went a whole lot differently for Boston. Miami certainly did a piss-poor job of trying to close out the game in regulation with all of that free-throw clanking. And that second missed jumper by LeBron was excusable, it was a tough shot that had a good look and those aren't going to go in 100% of the time, but that lay-up that he blew was pretty shaky. It's interesting because the whole course of that overtime literally changed with that blown Dwayne Wade-Rajon Rondo call. The Celtics never recovered from that. That was not a good time to miss a call on the refs' end. You know they're never going to hear the end of it in the newspapers and sports talk shows. And I kind of don't feel sorry for them. It was a bad call to miss, they should get some flak for missing it.

[Beastly]

F--K YOU REF

[ranger]

All known players that go to the rim are going to get calls (which includes the Spurs).

Wasn't denying that and my statement wasn't meant to be a jab to the Heat in anyway, but it's just kind of how the cookie crumbles; Dwayne Wade or Dirk Nowitzki are going to get calls far easier due to their rep.

And yeah, that Rondo non-call was complete BS.  I thought the refs might you know, give back an apology foul to say that they messed up, but NOPE, Dwayne in the next possession scores an AND-1. 

[Beastly]

F--K LOGIC F--K THE REFS F--K MIAMI F--K STERN THIS IS BOGUSSSS. WE EASILY COULD HAVE BEEN UP 2-0...

[dilbertschalter]

celtics don't get anything in 2008 without some terrible calls.

F--K LOGIC F--K THE REFS F--K MIAMI F--K STERN THIS IS BOGUSSSS. WE EASILY COULD HAVE BEEN UP 2-0...

bad calls happen every game for both sides and the home team tends to get quite a lot of love from the refs. that's not to say that everything is fair, but the whining/conspiracy theories are overblown.