I understand the whole "earn your calls" mentality a little, but that call is ridiculous. Durant just shoves him. That's a foul on Durant without question.
i'm guessing the official is claiming that the rook was bodying him up before the push, which is actually true--so why not just call it then and avoid looking stupid? this goes back to my continual point about nba officiating: if we just decided to try to call it right all the time, we wouldn't end up in situations like this. durant felt he had to push off because he was being physically crowded, and because he's a star, he figured he could get away with a full-on shove to demonstrate his point. and he was right!
So that ending to the Knicks vs Hawks game was a mess. Called a foul on Hardaway Jr on a Bazemore 3 point attempt even though there was no contact. Only gave Bazemore 2 freethrows. Knicks came down and scored with an and-1 BUT WAIT! Refs realized there mistake so rewind the game back to give Baze the freethrow and took away the Knicks' and1. #s***show Also Randle could file assault charges at the end there.
End of the OKC - Lakers game where Randle was getting hammered as the clock hit zero. Ref was right there and never called a foul which is what OKC wanted to put him on the line. Even Melo just waved the ref off like WTF man
Another no balls big man flopper move. Can you imagine the circus in Houston of superstars trying to outpoint each other with the degree of difficulty in flops if James and Paul and the Beard team up? Strong would be the Dark Side with that group.
You can call her a bad ref if you want, but I really don’t like Draymond Green, and I hope he’s fined big time for this one. He repeatedly called Lauren Holtkamp a “f****** b****”, and I think that’s incredibly inappropriate, disrespectful, wouldn’t have been said if she were a man, and says a lot to me about Draymond’s character.
I don’t know who any of these guys are anymore, but the sentiment still remains from when I made this.
Refs are lucky Philly still won that game . Also saw a play in the C Bags Clippers game where Rozier hit a 3 at the halftime buzzer, basically had his shooting arm taken out and was knocked down at the same time by Bradley, no call. Makes me sick to defend a C bag, but a foul is a foul, doesn’t matter if a buzzer has sounded or the shot went in, the ref was standing right there, absolute garbage.
How in the world do you not see that? There's how many refs on the floor at one time. What are they looking at?
You can see ref behind the board with her eyes right on the ball. The outside ref is seeing it too. Maybe her view was obscured by the side of the board, but I dunno, that’s horrible. Plays like that should be reviewable somehow.