Referees can make mistakes and the Golden State Warriors are a competitive team, so they may receive more attention from referees. But the NBA is responsible for ensuring fair treatment of all teams.
by Lord_Vanguard
@Golden State Warriors
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I put it on Kerr, considering how important Steph is to the franchise he has never shown a willingness to put more pressure on the officiating when it comes to how bad a whistle Steph gets in relation to other players of his stature in the league. Especially given his injury history he should have pulled a Mike Brown in the Miami game when that wasn’t ruled a reckless close out, watching the multiple replays it was unbelievable when it was called a common foul. You can complain about Lebron’s antics all you want when he doesn’t get calls he believes he deserves but the results for that team speak for themselves. It’s one thing for Kerr to be anti foul baiting but he’s putting his team at a real disadvantage when he doesn’t highlight obvious discrepancies and allows the narrative to take hold that it’s all because the team is too small and fouls a lot because of it and that’s the only reason that the discrepancies exist.
That’s some nice video evidence for what I was talking about directly after the Memphis game. Like, you expect me to believe that a bunch of rookies and G leaguers defended Steph so perfectly that he only earned 1 free throw the entire night?
Although the Warriors played a terrible game, even without the free throw disparity, it still should be said that they got screwed over on the free throw front (again) too.
I’m not saying the pistons didn’t “deserve” 40 free throws. But there’s was a lot of one-sided calling going on during the entire game. The video shows this as well. There’s so much inconsistency going on. Even the L2M reports sometimes make little to no sense and feel like they’re being used to validate odd calls by refs.
That being said, they also played a bad game.
This isn’t just a warriors problem, as we see the other coaches in this video with their evidence.
Adam Silver’s NBA is a mess. The reality of his screw ups will hit next year as new tv deals come to pass.
Blaming the refs is a poor excuse for sucking so very bad.
The NBA could have implemented automated, AI-assisted officiating a few years ago and certainly could do so at an even higher level today with the advances in tech. They could keep the nerve center in NJ to have humans review close calls, and even a human on the sideline to review calls, but they won’t ever and that should tell you all you need to know.
Yes, the refs make human mistakes. But when the FT disparity is like 40-10, then you know they are intentionally doing it. Saw it during the Lakers series, saw it in the Memphis game. How are they letting one team playing physical defense and the other team no calls? Good or bad calls need to BOTH WAYS. But Silver is a weak shit and he will never fix the problem. Stern would have milk the hell out of the Warriors.
Agreed that the whistle was horrendous and has been for a long time, but this video is super lazy. You can’t just immediately say look at the free throws compared to the points in the paint; part of the reason there was such a high disparity in points in the paint is *because* of the fouls, many of those points are getting converted as FTs.
When you leave obvious shit like that out of your analysis you come off as just as a conspiracy theorist.
Refereeing this season has been atrocious across the league. It’s almost as if they are getting too obvious about dictating the outcomes of games. Sooooo many incredibly late whistles, so many missed calls, odd techs, etc. it’s abysmal.
The biggest thing to me here is the free throw disparity given the points in the paint. If someone maps those across years or just this season, this game is probably the biggest outlier ever seen.
Wow, I knew there was fixing going on but this is still a shock. Hell, I turn off some games when I see things are on tilt. But this is criminal. Except the NBA is under the same rules as professional wrestling. That has to be changed.
By the way..This video is a masterpiece of research and solid information. THANKS