CHRON - Artest Flagrant 2 reduced to Flagrant 1

I don't think Ron went after the ball but it certainly wasn't a flagrant 2. If he had gone after the ball I would judged it as a normal foul.
I might be incorrect but that's the way that I see it.

 

They way I saw it I think there was no doubt he was going to after the ball.

More so than Rafer, Fisher, Rondo, Kobe, Vujacic.

 

No, it was a regular foul, but whatever.

 

Should have been a personal foult, but given the way everything else is being called, flagrant 1 is consistent.

As to refs giving the lakers favorable treatment, please. At half time, there were more than twice as many fouls called against the lakers, and 3 times as many free throw attempts by the rockets. It only caught up with the intentional fouling at the end.

Artest is a nutjob, and given his past, he needs to keep himself in check. that's the penalty you pay for beating on fans. He should know better.

 

are you SERIOUS lol

 

Still made the wrong call... a REGULAR foul should have been assessed. I'm not being picky, but that was just stupidity when they decided to call a flagrant 2. It wasn't even a flagrant foul when 3 different people had hit Pau Gasol...

 

They had to call it flagrant 1 because if not the league would be looking dumb if they just call it a personal foul and a slap in the face on the refs for looking dumb.

 

If the contact is considered excessive and potentially dangerous, the league will hand out a flagrant. It's no so much about malicious intent. It might be borderline in this case, but I think flagrant-1 makes sense.

 

It's automatically flagrant when the head is hit

 

Some of the time....

 

Not if you wear gold or green.

 

gasol's head was NOT hit.

 

how's that foul "excessive" and "potentially dangerous", in any way?

 

which is more than I can say for the actual refs, especially Crawford and the other bad rep refs.

 

It looked excessive to me. Is there a video of it anywhere?

 

Kudos to David Stern for reducing a regular foul to a flagrant 1. Thanks

 

...and that reddish puke-looking color. Hey...just saying

 

I'll live with the league calling it a Flagrant-1, even though it was nothing more than a good, hard playoff foul.

What I want to know is, why wasn't Sasha Vujacic's foul on Von Wafer not upgraded to at least a Flagrant-1? That foul was much harder and more dangerous than Ron's foul on Gasol.

 

Not even a flagrant foul. I hate this league.

 

That contact was mostly created by Wafer. It could have been a flagrant, but it also could have been an offensive foul. By ruling it a regular foul, I think the refs sort of split the difference.