Do You Think Officiating Will Ever Improve?

[da ThRONe]

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The college game is officiated just as badly as the NBA. The best way to improve the officiating is to re-do the flagrant foul rules, allow the players to police themselves to a degree and to get rid of refs with big egos. That would help to improve it. I do think it is possible but they will need to get rid of some of the big ego refs first.

The College game isn't prefect like I said. They do a better job of letting the players play and there's no superstar calls.

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Can it, yes.. will it NO

Too bad the NBA is too invested in certain teams that they can't and won't even market their entire league as it should be, but will continue to fabricate viewer numbers and ignore disgusted fans/customers.

Unfortunately the NBA stopped being about basketball a long time ago.


Its really been some hilariously bad stuff given to the Lakers over the past couple of weeks and its not even funny.
Its blatantly contradicting stuff that will always leave this league in the limelight of a fix or team/player favortism

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[SteelersFreak]

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Can it, yes.. will it NO

Too bad the NBA is too invested in certain teams that they can't and won't even market their entire league as it should be, but will continue to fabricate viewer numbers and ignore disgusted fans/customers.

Unfortunately the NBA stopped being about basketball a long time ago.


Its really been some hilariously bad stuff given to the Lakers over the past couple of weeks and its not even funny.
Its blatantly contradicting stuff that will always leave this league in the limelight of a fix or team/player favortism

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Its hard to admit, but these are all calls in close, key games for the Lakers that went their way, and they're all pretty blatant.

LOL smh at that Kings/Lakers game at the end. That's like 2002 all over again.

[King_B_Mack]

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Can it, yes.. will it NO

Too bad the NBA is too invested in certain teams that they can't and won't even market their entire league as it should be, but will continue to fabricate viewer numbers and ignore disgusted fans/customers.

Unfortunately the NBA stopped being about basketball a long time ago.


Its really been some hilariously bad stuff given to the Lakers over the past couple of weeks and its not even funny.
Its blatantly contradicting stuff that will always leave this league in the limelight of a fix or team/player favortism

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Guess it's time for the good old fashioned 'the game moves so fast it's hard to officiate' excuse now?

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Was funny seeing him say they arent gonna call that when he fouled Rubio but he jumped up and down like he was on a pogo stick when he bricked that shot Salmons didnt even touch him on...

Point it, this kind of stuff happens far too often to certain ones for it to just be human error every single time.

[Jasong7777]

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Good old Lakers conspiracy talk. Oh how i've missed thee.

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Well there is no conspiracy talk, just talking about bad officiating.

There have been a number of games, just so happened the Lakers were apart of some over the past couple of weeks, but they werent the only ones thats been talked about.

Just don't see the point in that post which has nothing to do with will officiating improve or not.

[ProfessaPackMan]

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I think it was his way of saying "You couldn't use a different video NOT involving the Lakers in this case" LOL.

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I think it was his way of saying "You couldn't use a different video NOT involving the Lakers in this case" LOL.

Well I did that within the past week or whatever but of course this is the only one thats going to get pointed out.

Along with that... I don't think any other team has gotten as many calls in this manner their way in the past 2 weeks either.

[SteelersFreak]

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Good old Lakers conspiracy talk. Oh how i've missed thee.

If you can't see that the Lakers 9 times out of 10 get more calls than their opponent, you're naive.

[ProfessaPackMan]

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Oh I'm sure other teams have gotten their fair share of awful calls throughout the season and not just in these last 2 weeks. We(Fans, League, Media) just don't or either choose not to focus on them.

But all that's beside the point because it's not a big deal. I thought VDusen hit the nail on the head in regards to the subject.

Do I think it will improve? No, but I also don't think it can get any worse than what it already is regardless of who's in charge.

I'll throw this out for anyone to answer: Was there ever a time since you've been watching the NBA where you were actually comfortable with the Officiating?

If you can't see that the Lakers 9 times out of 10 get more calls than their opponent, you're naive.

Let's please not make this about how many calls the Lakers get in their favor because that's not what the thread was made for and I refuse to have this turn into another "Lakers get all the calls and if you can't see it then you're blind" thread.

[SteelersFreak]

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I'll throw this out for anyone to answer: Was there ever a time since you've been watching the NBA where you were actually comfortable with the Officiating?

There are games I feel like where you can feel that the officiating is pretty good. Although there are lots of games where the officiating feels great until the 4th quarter then suddenly the game is called a completely different way. But I don't think anyone watching a superstar play can ever be surprised when he gets little ticky tack fouls all night long. And in crunch time these days the refs seem to randomly decide if they want to call everything or call almost nothing, it doesn't seem to based in any way on how the game was already being played.

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Oh I'm sure other teams have gotten their fair share of awful calls throughout the season and not just in these last 2 weeks. We(Fans, League, Media) just don't or either choose not to focus on them.

But all that's beside the point because it's not a big deal. I thought VDusen hit the nail on the head in regards to the subject.

Do I think it will improve? No, but I also don't think it can get any worse than what it already is regardless of who's in charge.

I'll throw this out for anyone to answer: Was there ever a time since you've been watching the NBA where you were actually comfortable with the Officiating?


Let's please not make this about how many calls the Lakers get in their favor because that's not what the thread was made for and I refuse to have this turn into another "Lakers get all the calls and if you can't see it then you're blind" thread.

That's his opinion.

If the inconsistency doesn't bother him, thats him...but surely enough it seems to pop up time and again, and this is not just bad calls or missed calls... some of this stuff is blatant and the video is right in front of you.

Im not arguing it, because this isnt the first time and wont be the last and we all know it.

I don't think the league cares enough about the integrity in the fans minds to correct all of the things they can as much as they do about $$$$ signs.

[Jasong7777]

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If you can't see that the Lakers 9 times out of 10 get more calls than their opponent, you're naive.

The Lakers get no more calls than the Heat, Thunder, or Spurs. Do the Lakers get their fair share of calls that go their way? Hell Yes, but no more than other teams. It would have been nice if the officials would have called a foul on Dahntay Jones a couple of weeks ago when Kobe rolled his ankle.

[Kashanova]

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Can it, yes.. will it NO

Too bad the NBA is too invested in certain teams that they can't and won't even market their entire league as it should be, but will continue to fabricate viewer numbers and ignore disgusted fans/customers.

Unfortunately the NBA stopped being about basketball a long time ago.


Its really been some hilariously bad stuff given to the Lakers over the past couple of weeks and its not even funny.
Its blatantly contradicting stuff that will always leave this league in the limelight of a fix or team/player favortism

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great post, doesn't really surprise me especially considering the history of calls going their way

I really wish the officiating improves, maybe under the new Commish it will