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Game Thread Mar 03, 2021 5:00PM MT: Jazz at 76ers

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homeytennis said:
I noticed that a lot of national media are tweeting up a storm about how horrible the reffing was. Perhaps Adam Silver and his henchman will be forced to do something.
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Nah, won't happen. The only way anything would is if the owners came together to push the league for a change of some kind.
 
This is the kind of **** that makes me question following the NBA at all when they make it clear they only want certain teams winning. I'm sure the jazz going on a historic run and solidly being the best team in the league was not in the marketing plan, no that spot belongs to the Lakers, and hopefully the nets in the east, but they would have been happy with the sixers and the clippers. But sure as **** not the jazz. So something had to be done to reverse it. It strongly strengthens the conspiracy theories but it fits so well it goes beyond that being a joke and starts to bring it into the light of legitimacy.
 
LogGrad98 said:
This is the kind of **** that makes me question following the NBA at all when they make it clear they only want certain teams winning. I'm sure the jazz going on a historic run and solidly being the best team in the league was not in the marketing plan, no that spot belongs to the Lakers, and hopefully the nets in the east, but they would have been happy with the sixers and the clippers. But sure as **** not the jazz. So something had to be done to reverse it. It strongly strengthens the conspiracy theories but it fits so well it goes beyond that being a joke and starts to bring it into the light of legitimacy.
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I didn't even bother watching overtime because I knew it would take a miracle for the Jazz to overcome the Sixers with the way the game was being officiated down the stretch in regulation. I saw the string of terrible calls in overtime on videos over Twitter and it was just completely unsurprising.

It obviously would have been possible for the Jazz to overcome all of that and still win, but I just have zero interest in watching my team compete against garbage officiating. It sucks that I can already know, before overtime even plays out, exactly how it's going to go from an officiating standpoint. It's not even controversial to say that if we get into a close playoff series late against the Lakers - it's going to be a similar experience. That's just stating the obvious.

 
MT Steve said:
I didn't even bother watching overtime because I knew it would take a miracle for the Jazz to overcome the Sixers with the way the game was being officiated down the stretch in regulation. I saw the string of terrible calls in overtime on videos over Twitter and it was just completely unsurprising.

It obviously would have been possible for the Jazz to overcome all of that and still win, but I just have zero interest in watching my team compete against garbage officiating. It sucks that I can already know, before overtime even plays out, exactly how it's going to go from an officiating standpoint. It's not even controversial to say that if we get into a close playoff series late against the Lakers - it's going to be a similar experience. That's just stating the obvious.

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Crazy stuff. Totally forgot the context but tied 2-2 and hung in for a close game 5 despite getting screwed by officials.
 
MT Steve said:
I didn't even bother watching overtime because I knew it would take a miracle for the Jazz to overcome the Sixers with the way the game was being officiated down the stretch in regulation. I saw the string of terrible calls in overtime on videos over Twitter and it was just completely unsurprising.

It obviously would have been possible for the Jazz to overcome all of that and still win, but I just have zero interest in watching my team compete against garbage officiating. It sucks that I can already know, before overtime even plays out, exactly how it's going to go from an officiating standpoint. It's not even controversial to say that if we get into a close playoff series late against the Lakers - it's going to be a similar experience. That's just stating the obvious.

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I think it is more about stars than markets... but markets can obviously be motivational factor.

One of the worst referee deep dicking was the Miami vs. Dallas finals where Wade got every BS call all series. This was before Lebron. I loved watching early Wade and was a fan but even I was thought it was completely unfair.
 
Handlogten's Heros said:
The last two minute report confirmed it was correct. Remember when I told everyone those things were ********?
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LMAO, the last two minute report says Mitchell wrapped his arm around Simmons' leg on that play.

The L2M's have always been a sham, but holy hell, they aren't even trying to make them seem credible anymore.
 
MT Steve said:
LMAO, the last two minute report says Mitchell wrapped his arm around Simmons' leg on that play.

The L2M's have always been a sham, but holy hell, they aren't even trying to make them seem credible anymore.
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The issue is it shows they don't think they have a problem. After grading themselves they think they did a good job. If the league and the officials don't think there is a problem then there is no reason to think there will ever be improvement. So just buy into the ******** and do the foul drawing and flopping and dark arts that make the game tough to watch.

The refs have too much pride to be wrong.
 
Handlogten's Heros said:
The issue is it shows they don't think they have a problem. After grading themselves they think they did a good job. If the league and the officials don't think there is a problem then there is no reason to think there will ever be improvement. So just buy into the ******** and do the foul drawing and flopping and dark arts that make the game tough to watch.

The refs have too much pride to be wrong.
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No the league has no incentive to be fair and accurate.
 
Handlogten's Heros said:
The issue is it shows they don't think they have a problem. After grading themselves they think they did a good job. If the league and the officials don't think there is a problem then there is no reason to think there will ever be improvement. So just buy into the ******** and do the foul drawing and flopping and dark arts that make the game tough to watch.

The refs have too much pride to be wrong.
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Yeah. Is there anybody here that even remotely doubts that the league would've agreed with the call had they called it on Simmons instead of Mitchell?

It's kind of ironic. The L2M's were intended to add legitimacy to the credibility of the league's officiating, and instead all it's doing is confirming that refs can do whatever the hell they want, and as long as there's even an ounce of subjectivity to a call, their farce of a grading system will agree with them.
 
What about the oneale steal and so called out of bounds ?

espn has stated that the ball thrown by Royce touched a ref that was out of bounds ? I never saw this , nor did the replay even view that , all they were looking at was his foot .

As I see it , it should of been Jazz ball , 29seconds left and up by 3 .
 
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