i won't watch another second of the NBA until david stern apologizes to knicks fans for the comedy that was the reffing in tonights first half. pathetic.

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i won't watch another second of the NBA until david stern apologizes to knicks fans for the comedy that was the reffing in tonights first half. pathetic.

If that was a flagrant 1, then they should've called a flagrant 2
on Joel Anthony throwing Amare to the floor, pulling his hand back
while he was in mid air.

BasketballJones wrote:

Vmart wrote:

BasketballJones wrote:That's the way the NBA wants it. That's the way it is. It's all part of the game. It's really a matter of helping the officials out. They can't really see how bad the foul is sometimes, so you gotta help them by grabbing your head and rolling around on the court like you're in agony. Woody needs to take the cue and work on this in practice.

First basketball related post by Basketball Jones. What's the occasion, probably the 100-67 drubbing.

First basketballjones related post by Vmart. What's the occasion? Probably the first baketball related post by basketballjones.

That's more like it.

K22 wrote:

Nice selling, LeBron. WWE and TNA would be proud.

He flopped then realized he was actually in pain. Hilarious!

http://deadspin.com/5902131/james-jones-flopped-and-it-sent-jeff-van-gundy-on-an-apoplectic-rant
http://deadspin.com/5906039/lebron-james-has-ushered-in-the-nba-playoffs-flop-era

These officials were awful and should not call anymore games for the rest of the playoffs. Aren't they playoffs suppose to have top officials calling the game? How did these guys manage to ref playoff games.

s617te808 wrote:First of all... I wanna give alot of credit to the Heat for coming out doing what they had to do, which was just to hustle and play "D". Unfortunately, the Knicks weren't able to do the same. Kinda felt like watching the Knicks playing the Lakers of the early 2000's (5 players vs 8 players). I thought this was the freakin playoffs????? Whatever happened to hard fouls??? A flagrant foul for a hard pick? A double technical called between 2 players talking smack while walking away from a hard foul? A technical for throwing a bounce pass to the ref? Or a foul called on Melo fighting for position against Lebron with Lebron crying like a biotch when Melo pushed him for a post position? Dammit! No wonder the Knicks were so frustrated to play hard defense after the mid third quarter. The refs never game them a chance to be aggressive on defense in this game. I could've sworn that Lebron had more free throw attempts then the whole Knicks team combined by halftime. I hope Woody has a game plan to have the players stay aggressive on defense and to have the offense move the ball around instead of being so predictable as to forcing a bad pass to Melo in the post. Just gotta make the adjustments for game 2 and hope for better officiating.

The only Knicks who shot FT's were Melo and Amar'e. I think the officials so were terrified of a 90s style brawl (newsflash: there wasn't going to be one, these are completely different players), so they decided they would call everything (in the heats favour). I remember a few games ago a commentator said that the Knicks foul on every play (they reach in a lot etc), but officials don't call it all the time as they'd get sick of it. Well I guess we saw what happens if the officials do decide to persevere.