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knickscity
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![]() It's been bad for both sides imo, clearly making the NBA look scripted.
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nycisgreat
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![]() knickscity wrote:It's been bad for both sides imo, clearly making the NBA look scripted. +1 |
Bonn1997
Posts: 58654 Alba Posts: 2 Joined: 2/2/2004 Member: #581 USA |
![]() Here are a few things worth thinking about:
http://www.realclearsports.com/articles/2011/04/21/why_nba_officials_get_too_much_blame_97286.html The Wall Street Journal did a couple studies in the past two years and determined that on average, an NFL game contains 11 minutes of action and an MLB game 14 minutes. These obviously pale in comparison to the 48 minutes of action in an NBA game. With that much more playing time there are bound to be more whistles and more plays for fans to gripe about. The author also discusses that if there are about 10 runs scored in a baseball game (and even fewer in hockey) and 200 points in a basketball game, you'd expect erroneous calls that impact the score of the game to occur twenty times as often in basketball as in baseball. I think people have no idea how hard it is to ref basketball in general and the NBA in particular. |