Sorry but those respect of the game rules are one sided to begin with. Players know referees take things personal, there’s star calls and instructions from the league office that hurt referees’ status and integrity, so they need to respect the game too! Nothing will change, unfortunately. As long as they take human emotion out of the game and any form of walking away, talking and visual expression of anger and frustration as a sign of disrespect, there’s no sincerity in these attempts. No matter how much Silver and others will praise these meetings. The problems are easy to fix, the real ones. Ejections and technicals for high profile players are a good thing. I love it! Warriors in particular need to cool it on trying to show up the refs. In that case I’d take it personal too.
I feel conflicted. I absolutely love players using their platform to promote social justice and the generational work we need, but when they whine about the refs, I wanna tell them to shut up. Except for the '05 Mavs series and all the illegal defense that was apparently okay in the '96 Sonics series.
This is the quote by Silver that really 'grinds my gears' Dude, seriously? You can't be comparing the complaints right now on data from 'over the years'. This isn't some acute problem, it's a chronic problem. This is an issue that has been going on for some years. This has been a problem since the Kings were robbed of an NBA championship, this has been a problem since the refs were busted fixing games and only one ref was held complicit. Grading and comparing modern refs to refs of a few years past and then saying 'Oh, no real major change! the refs are doing good' when this is an ongoing problem is the biggest insult to the sport of basketball. When you have NBA refs making public claims that '95% of the calls are correct'.. Where is the fine for that statement? Because that statement is B/S
the fact that nothing is being addressed in any way indicates the league office has some vested interest in maintaining bad calls being the norm. perhaps for vegas lines, perhaps as a tool for promoting the teams they want to, perhaps for some other reason yet to be discerned
players don't make all their shots and neither do officials... so what is the acceptable miss rate for ofiicials?
that dude in the blue shirt's comment reminded me of harden after game 6 , 'he kinda tugged me a bit'