Comments on: The best/worst postseason in NBA history

By: PJ

PJ — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 16:22:18 +0000

It’s all these touch fouls that really mess the consistency up for everyone

Get rid of touch fouls - when someone wants to foul a superstar driving to the hole, make it look like a real foul

No arm tapping or giving slight nudges

Also, Rondo and Dwight should’ve been suspended - Dwight especially with those huge arms of his going through his defender’s faces

Now everyone’s saying it’s not Dwight’s fault because he’s just a huge guy but hell I don’t recall David Robinson or Shaq or Yao knocking out or trying to knock out their defenders and they’re as big as Dwight

By: angelo lopez

angelo lopez — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 23:05:29 +0000

Where are the retired players,they should be the one who do the referries job,since these referries are bozo.they have been in the league but still do not know how to call a foul,travelling or fragrant.Commisioner Stern you should give the job to the retired players as the referries,if you want a good NBA game.

By: knock knock

knock knock — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 18:24:26 +0000

To those saying that rondo did “whatever was neccessary” you guys must be celtics fans. As a basketball player, theres a hundred things you coulda done to prevent the basket without karate chopping him to the face. What rondo shoulda did, was give him a HARD FOUL, not slap him on national tv. Of course what he did was a blatant cheap foul and should of been suspended. Dwights elbow was nothin compared to that, HE DIDN”T EVEN CONNECT.

* a small point guard with the quickness KNEW what he was doing.

By: BlackNWhite

BlackNWhite — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 16:49:14 +0000

JBEAN…. i stopped reading once i read that jeff van gundy is the greatest announcer of all time. Check out the late Chick Hearn… that man gave sight to the blind.

By: norm

norm — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 23:02:48 +0000

dwight howard clearly taunted varejao right after he dunked on him and i might be crazy but i thought that you werent allowed to taunt players anymore but you could taunt the crowd which he did not do but its okay i guess its just sterns way of making sure lebron doesnt win in cleveland

By: Yarock

Yarock — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 19:38:03 +0000

Let’s play a little game called “what if”.

What if Rondo had been suspended for fish-hooking Miller?
What if Melo missed that three?

I think you can never make everyone happy 100% of the time, but the NBA tries to make 51% (or at least SOME majority of its viewers) happy 100% of the time. Nobody was happy with the Spurs-Suns confrontation and the resulting fouls, and I think the NBA decided to not call as many fouls in the playoffs. All of Boston would be livid if Rondo got thrown out. All of Denver would complain about the non-call if Melo had missed that shot.

We need to take what we are given by the refs and be happy they aren’t being as Liberal with the whistle this off-season

By: pj

pj — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 17:11:40 +0000

you can’t possibly say rondo shouldn’t have been suspened. the fish hook on miller, the intentional trip of hinrich where he had to get stiches, when he grabbed hinrich and threw him into the scorers table. you are straight up insane if you think howard’s elbow is as bad as those 3 things combined, let alone just the throwing of hinrich into the table. the nba babied the celtics b/c of who they are and who chicago is. rondo should NOT be respected for this ‘will to win’ as there’s a difference between a playoff foul and what he was doing.

By: frank B

frank B — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 16:48:11 +0000

NBA officiating is suspect at best. I always make the joke that Basketball = roller derby, in that the refs make sure that the home team has the best chance to win at all times.

If you peel back the onion on the Wright no call in the Dallas/Thuggets series, it suddenly becomes clear why the league issued their error statement. When the home team wins, the fans are happy, more beer and tee shirts get sold, local advertising rolls in, and the owner is happy.

So in order to beat someone in their house, the away team has to dominate the game. I was amazed that Orlando could beat Boston at home in game 7; in order to do this Orlando had to clearly be the better team.

I think the owners understand this dynamic. The referreing is more favorable to the home team and since all the owners are in this game to make money, more money is made by this approach.

So how then could the refs not call the foul on Wright? It was a mistake, plain and simple. The league office said so. This was basically an apology for not giving the Mavericks the best opportunity to win the game.

By: Mark

Mark — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 16:32:32 +0000

LOL what a bias writer.. Rondo should have been suspended in these playoffs, it doesn’t matter what you think - consistency is the key and Rondo almost chopping off Miller’s head is definitely a flagrant. The NBA is just babying the Celtics and Cavs as usual, and just as babies, they cry!

By: JBEAN

JBEAN — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 13:19:19 +0000

Jeff Van Gundy (greatest announcer of all time) put it best, “their turning a game that dosent need to be turned”. It does seem the league wants the refs to have equal say to the players in the way the game is being played, and in my opinion its atrocious. The players will adapt but sometimes to the detriment of the game; who here likes watching all the soccer style flopping that has emerged over the last decade? The game is being called too tight on both sides and its ruining the integrity of the game. How many times do we see lebron or Pierce put his head down and ram through the lane just waiting for the wistle, to me its disgusting, same with the defensive player running to a spot to get on his heals and allow any kind of contact send himself flying. The players are playing the refs as much as they are allowing their skill and determination dictate the outcome. The real game of basketball is being played on the pick-up courts which is sad becuase it lacks the intensity of competing at the highest level. The game is easy to fix, allow the defensive player to have his space, feet extended from the floor to the ceiling at any point in time, and pocket the whistles on most incidental contact. And for gods sake, if a player is running away from the play and the offensive player still makes contact there usually is no way that can translate to a foul on the defensive player. Finally stop calling all these offensive fouls. They talk about teching players for flopping. Just stop calling fouls unless you really see heavy impact, the defensive player will flop to the ground putting their team at a disadvantage. I gurantee if the team is playing at a disadvantage consistantly we will see players stay on their feet more often then not. In 20 years of playing competitive ball at high levels ive refused to flop and have fallen to the ground after a bump from an offensive player comming at me maybe twice. The nba has 270 pound dudes flying backwards 3 time per game, its rediculous.