a sport should not have to rely on challenges to get the big calls right. key plays especially in close games in the 4th quarter should be automatically reviewed. come on, even a totally conservative sport like soccer already got it mostly right with a Video ref warning the ref every time a mistake is made in a key play. pressure needs to be put on the NBA to fix this.
I don’t remember the last time I saw a call so late, not for a long time. I’m convinced this ref either had money on this game, or something personal against LeBron. This wasn’t the only call they waited to see if the player made or missed the shot before making it either, I hate that s***, it’s a foul or it’s not
I rarely, RARELY blame the refs because I think it is petty and overplayed. We 100% lost tonight because of the refs.
yup. you'll never see me blame the refs for a loss but tonight's loss was 100% on the refs. its one thing to lose fair and square, but to lose because of straight up incompetence from the refs is inexcusable
The funny thing is I’m not so sure this guy is wrong. One of the worst late calls I’ve ever seen, and then down on the other end he watches leBron get hacked and swallows the whistle. How can you make a call from 40 feet away and then not see the one from 5 feet away?
Yea man I gotta vent with all you guys: a conspicuously poorly ref'd game, and once again: calls go against us very late in crunch. This is the first time I actually suspect - I'm not saying there was - a rotten ref in this game. And the league should be looking very VERY closely at Goble. The Tim Donaghy era was a black eye to the game and I hoped we'd never see that again. Everyone agrees that the Lakers got jobbed here, so Imma complain about ESPN's trio: when Brogdon got called for the flagrant 1 against Russ (who was terrible, esp in the 1st half, but anyway), they missed this: as the play was just about over, Brogdon very clearly appears to kick his leg out to trip Russ...and Russ WAS tripped, and it looked like was really hurt. And Breen/Van Gundy/Jackson said it was a bad call. To me, it was Flagrant TWO. LOOK at that play and tell me Brogdon naturally needed to kick out his leg there at the end. Do the two guys have history? Yes, they do. Man, it suuuuuuuuucks losing to the C-Bags again in OT, but even more so 'cuz it really does look like there's something rotten with the refs. And believe me, it takes a lot for me to say that. Again: I could be wrong, but man: Goble's calls need to be analyzed very closely.
Yep: that was also an egregiously bad call. When everything mattered. Something stinks with the refs, and it rhymes with "ignoble."
The crazy thing is that there were so many ATROCIOUS critical calls down the stretch, that it’s probably going to go under the radar now terrible the officiating was the entire game Remember when Schröder got called for a foul on Tatum’s fast break in the third quarter (which itself was a terrible call, Schröder had the same level of marginal contact that AD had on a similar contest later in the game that was deemed clean)… and then he got called for a T because he slipped on a wet spot?!
From an ESPN write-up abut the game and that this follows bad calls that cost Laker wins against DAl, PHI, and SAC too: >The loss dropped the Lakers to 23-27, 13th in the Western Conference. If they had won the four recent games they disputed the officiating against Dallas, Philadelphia, Sacramento and Boston, a 27-23 record would put them at No. 4 in the West.< It would be nice to be in 4th in the West, wouldn't it? Well, we should be.
like the tweet mentions, guy is literally already walking back towards the other side of the court before he remembers he's got money on boston and makes the foul call league needs to investigate this POS
