[Highlight] David Adelman shouts in the referee’s face and gets ejected from the game
Head coaches are about to rise up in rebellion against the refs
We’ve gone from betting conspiracies to just widespread incompetence among referees, how we have fallen
Like it’s crazy how many high-profile crash outs we’ve had in like a week’s span
It’s not incompetence, the league decides what the refs call. They constantly are changing this, the refs don’t understand, the coaches don’t understand, the players don’t understand, the fans don’t understand. Not understanding leads to frustration. There is no integrity of the game at this level anymore. If there’s no integrity then why care?
Insert kawhi leonard league cover up of sham 28 mill payment to breach salary cap here …..and here
insert luka trade
Insert any of the calls that are posted here, everyone on either side says their dumb calls and insert the gambling line where they need the dog to cover and the favorite to win. It’s not rocket science, there is an imbalance of power between the gambling parties, the casual fan, and the longtime fan. They are probably trying to pick apart statistical models to find the best middle ground and are lacking the fundamental principle that keeps people coming back. Honesty and trust.
Yeah, the reffing has been so inconsistent between games and sometimes within games. And its a open secret the change the way the game is reffed during the playoffs. I just wished the called the fouls as written so the players can adjust accordingly.. I hate how it seems teams are incentivise to pull and tug and flop because they “can’t call every foul” or “flop is what you need to do to get a call”.
Its been crickets.. I dont know why any team wouldn’t cheat the salary cap now. If you can’t enforce it, can the league just remove the salary cap restrictions like the MLB? At least that way we have more transparency.
I went from never watching basketball, to really getting into it, learning the game, players, and schemes, to not watching again. I can’t stand blatant inconsistencies in rules and calls, it just leads to frustration.
We are frustrated watching… imagine being a player having to play in them. Games are lost and won on bad calls.
Does even the powder cryptkeeper understand?
Love the NBA, but the calls are beyond ridiculous.
Not understanding leads to frustration.
Frustration leads to fear
Fear leads to anger
Anger leads to the dark side
2nd crashout in this matchup in the past week
2nd crash out in less than 24 hours.
We’ve gone from betting conspiracies to just widespread incompetence among referees
Hold on hold on. It can be and is both.
Reffing has gone from one-sided OKC reffing to just consistently fucking trash across the board this season for and against a ton of different teams.
¿porque no los dos?
Chris Finch; Maud’Dib; The One Who Points The Way.
I seriously love that Finch is calling out the bullshit. Only coach with balls when it comes to this and I hope we see more. Carlisle will get into it with refs during games but is very professional postgame which makes sense because he’s the leader of the coaches union, but I kind of wish he’d sometimes do what Finch has done
It’s kinda cool when you consider that in the WNBA Cheryl Reeve called the refs out too. Minnesota in general just getting sick of their shit.
Lisan Al Gaib!
Chris Finch: “The rebellion is reborn today. The war is just beginning. And I will not be the Last Ejected Coach”
“They expect one of us in the wreckage brother.”
Finch? MORE LIKE MOCKINGJAY!
Chris Finch fired the first shot
There’s gonna be a ref hit this year. Mazulla may just say fuck it mask off.
He’s gonna bring a wolf into TD Garden that has been trained to attack refs
A pack of wolves. he’s just claiming he has one at home for the wife. then he’ll watch the town for the 5345th time but he’s not autistic. I’m autistic relax. I play the same video game every night for the last like 6 years. You’d think I’d be better.
Can’t wait to see it ASG should be refs vs. Coaches
You mean gambling partners who’s investments pay for the refs salaries?
NBA don’t give a fuck.
Someone should…
Cheryl reeve is gonna lead that revolution!
The WNBA refs are even more deserving to be risen up against
#IM SPARTACUS
I love this. Needs to happen everyday for a another week or two!!
Heard a couple of F bombs from him I was wondering where it came from lol
I heard it before I saw it while watching live
I didn’t think he had it in him. Love to see it
I was wondering who dropped that f-bomb five seconds in lol. Damn, coaches bout to rise up and motivate their players with their ejections.
I was doing a quick mental guess who.
My favorite type of guess.
No accent, so it’s not jokic.
Anyone else hate the assistants holding him back?
Like he’s already getting fined let him get his money worth.
It’s like baseball, he’s not going to touch him but let him fucking have it.
Yes, that drives me nuts. Every single time. He’s already ejected. Just let him get his rage out without interrupting it. Shit’s ridiculous.
WHA DA FUCK IS YOU LOOKIN AT
This is pretty common in baseball and you see GMs get tossed fairly often and honestly I feel like it’s more appropriate/makes more sense in basketball than baseball lol. It’s always framed as “good for the coach, light a fire under his team” too it almost never seems to be seen as a negative
My favorite baseball manager ejections are when they start out trying to reason with the ump, get frustrated and say one too many things, get ejected, then they really let loose and start cursing out the ump lol. I would like to see NBA coaches doing this too
Edit: NBA should put a ring of dirt around the court just for coaches to kick at the refs when they get ejected
you see GMs get tossed fairly often
They’re just called Managers in baseball. GM is a different guy who does mostly player personnel stuff. Though there was this one time during COVID where Washington Nationals GM Mike Rizzo got tossed from the stands (of course it’s Joe West):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sha4H-8oA7g
What NBA coach has the best hands?
Mike Dan and Tony
That’s 6 hands to throw
Phil jack and his son also have 6
They aren’t coaches. Those are sibling referees, the Tony Brothers.
Smoking that Chris Finch pack
he didnt inhale but oh boy maybe he did
Finchy started a revolution
The coaches group chat must be bumping these days.
Nobody tell Puka
They’ll say his name like Spartacus some say.
Cheryl Reeves too
Coach Cheryl has some legendary crashouts.
Cheryl and the Lynx are on such a crusade they threw their own commissioner into the mud lol, she’s pretty much untouchable in the WNBA, and deserved too
Started a Revolution on Prince Night, you say?
Him and our own JB have had it with the officials
I didn’t know he had that in him
These are some of the most cutthroat coaches in the one of the most competitive league. None of them are kitty kittens lol, I’d think all coaches are totally capable of turning into super Saiyan.
Edit: second thought maybe not ty lue lol my b
I’m legit waiting for Redick to lose his shit lol
“Bronny shoot the fucking ball”. It was like two weeks ago lol
I mean on refs and get ejected lol. He already lost his shit on his players last year.
don’t have to when your the lakers lmfao
“WHERE THE FUCK IS OUR FREE THROW DIFFERENTIAL?”
Huh?! I feel like JJ is constantly on the edge of committing murder.
Yeah that’s my point, but when has he been ejected?
In such a cutthroat league the Lakers somehow found Pockets
Ayo JJ was alright.
Been waiting for this from him, the thing I loved most about Moach was getting in their face when the nuggets weren’t getting the calls. I didn’t think adelman had the temperament for it, glad to see it start to come out
Adelman out here doing a Malone impersonation.
Is it wrong that I want to see a coach fight a referee?
It’s not. It’s actually so so right.
We need hockey style fights in the NBA but between coaches/refs
Malone came pretty close in Game 2 of the wolves series that one time
And somehow didn’t even get a technical for it, same with Murray who was throwing shit at players 🤣
Well, I mean….. the by far most likely coach to snap and fight a referee would be Sac King’s coach Doug Christie, given his history of officially Having Enough with Rick Fox in that pre-season game….
It’s too bad that he missed his opportunity to go apoplectic on the refs last game when the refs stole the game from them. He coulda been ahead of the curve. Now, if he snaps, he’ll clearly just be following others’ trends.
The most likely coach to fight a ref is Joe mazzulla. But it wouldn’t be from snapping, he’d go to the ref’s house after he was asleep and perform a finishing move.
I don’t know, Doug seems so mild over there on the sidelines. If he can keep his position for a few years/get job security though then I could see it being on.
Edit: poor Doug. Probably no coach in the league has a right to beef with refs more than him considering…
I just wanna see a Bobby Knight throw a buncha shit onto the court crashout.
I vote to make this the new review system.
I’m just waiting for Joe Mazzulla to send out the challenge to them. If anyone will do it, it is him.
What the fuck are you looking at!? Haha love it coach
I mean he was looking directly at the arm swipe and didn’t do shit. Good for Adelman
NBA refs is probably the worse official in all the sport leagues that I watch.
Just abysmal, and there’s really not much consequences for them to be awful
I’m guessing you don’t watch WNBA
That finals game vs New York is some of the most horse shit reffing I’ve ever seen in my life
When the commissioner of the league shows up in a dress with a New York skyline printed on it, it stops feeling like a conspiracy theory and starts feeling like open corruption.
Imagine Adam Silver going to one of those Golden State finals wearing a blazer with the Golden Gate Bridge on it
as an oakland resident it still pisses me off san francisco claims the warriors
i remember their championship parades in downtown oak, the whole office invited everyone they knew, our second floor windows were eye level with the bus as it went by.
we used to see the fireworks from the coliseum during A’s games from our window. we used to pick up cheap raiders tickets when there was nothing else doing. what was i talking about? fuck the chiefs.
Was just as bad as Kings/Lakers
Or college hoops
I value my free time.
Look up Angel Hernandez
Angel Hernandez isn’t umpiring anymore, and MLB is instituting reviews on ball and strike calls next year on top of reviews for plays in the field which already exist. What is the NBA doing to address bad reffing?
They release reports saying “here’s the game changing calls we got wrong, whoopsies! No changes will be made of course!”
Fining anyone who mentions it.
Not even remotely close to as bad as NBA refs.
That dude had some big misses, but he was like 92% accurate.
This shit in the NBA is EGREGIOUS with the no calls and missed calls. They’re just letting shit fly or not depending on the vibes. Idk wtf they are on. It’s crazy!
Hernandez sued the MLB accusing them of racism for not giving him a World Series. They put it on record that the reason they never gave him a game is because he sucked so much.
To play devil’s advocate a bit, do you think basketball is one of the, if not the, most difficult sport to ref? I feel like what constitutes a foul can get so subjective.
Some refs in la liga (Spanish soccer) are unbelievably dogshit, but for me that’s the only competition with how bad the nba reffing is.
Yeah, I don’t watch la liga that much anymore (used to when there were Messi and CR7), but the refs in the smaller team matches were bad. Not as bad as NBA refs, but quite sus.
Like that dexter/doakes meme, you can’t prove it, but you know there’s something going on over there.
I kinda blame the the shit rules more than I do the individual refs honestly. Not that they are great but..
I ain’t know he talked like dat bruh 😭
Sounds like any of us when we’re finally crashing out lmao dude has been watching some bullshit for a minute leading up to this for sure
Pretty much all coaches speak like this lmao. Just usually doesn’t get picked up
Dude looks like your average middle aged accountant lmao
Love this from him
expose these bum ass refs
There wasnt much in this game to be honest.
Nuggets team seemed lethargic and sleepy
Other nuggets fans will be mad at you but you’re right. Absolutely asleep on the perimeter and then just missing wide open shots on the other end
naw that was a well deserved L.
I think coach tried to ignite a spark with this. Phil Jackson Popovich etc would do such things
Lmao it’s funny the nuggets complained this game when the rockets were legitimately robbed against the nuggets earlier this week
It might be the video quality, but I don’t see fouls there. Looks like he got ball on both swipes.
Bro quit using your eyes and start using your heart
Maintaining the agenda is our top priority.
I thought the same thing. There had to be something going in from earlier because this was pretty clean looking.
He was mad about previous missed calls. This particular play looked pretty clean.
Yeah I was gonna ask what he was so angry about here in particular??
I’m a Rockets homer and we’ve fouled him a bunch in previous games, but this was a clean defensive possession. Maybe there was holding off the ball? Not sure, but that was a confusing moment for me at least.
I’m a Nuggets homer and indeed, he does get whacked a lot on the arms in the paint. A lot doesn’t get called. So why get a T on a pretty obvious non call?
Anyway, Nuggets lost because they shot like crap and Houston couldn’t miss. They’re 20-7. On to the next game.
I have Denver roots so they’re my #2 (even through the Juwan Howard and Harrington days) and yea Joker gets hit LOADS, but we weren’t actually too physical with him this game; I feel our game plan was defending PoA/Murray and I’m not sure why Adelman lost his shit. But, I love his competitive nature. He’s a long term coach (even though I question some of his rotations) who’s gonna open y’all’s window as long as the front office stays true. We’re still working out our kinks with Fred being MIA, but Reed may be a blessing if Ime allows it; if things go right we could have one of the most EPIC playoff battles ever.
If anything Jokić is hooking Steve Adams. This is a good no call.
I think this is a bad technical/ejection just because Cam Johnson has an open layup at that point and was about to score
saw it worked last night, decided to give it a try
He needed to. It was just way too late to matter. The fix was in from the first quarter.
It was not like okc thunder refball.
Even the possession he gets thrown out is very regular possession not sth to lose mind.
Rockets was making some tough shots not easy FTs like FTA
He got two phantom calls in the first quarter to put him into foul trouble. And he got hacked a bunch without getting anything. The crash out was definitely valid, it was just way too late in the game to change anything. The game was toast right from the start. If youre gonna get yourself tossed in an attempt to fix the officiating you gotta do it early like Finch.
I agree though, it wasn’t to the extent of okc refball, but it was still pretty one sided right from the start.
Refs allowed Denver in 3rd, kinda no calls etc for Rockets to turnover 4 times in 5 possessions…
And Nuggets were almost tying the game coming back from 15ish deficit.
It was just Reed Shepperd and KD making some tough 3s. So I wouldnt say this was a okc refball game.
This is a more classical phil jackson gregg popovich style thrown out the game to lit a fire inside of the players. Denver was sleepy today
Was there actually even a foul there? Look like he started losing the ball before the help even got there
Looked at the review and jabari on both times only knocked the ball out. He didn’t even hit hands or something like that. Don’t know what he saw to crash out like that
It absolutely didnt look like a foul. I dont think this game has been unfairly reffed at all.
Fr last game Nuggets got way more favorable calls without a doubt. But this game Rockets were just playing hard and making tough shots thru Reed & KD
You can still foul someone even if they’re starting to lose the ball. I can’t really tell from either angle though if this is a foul, somehow Jokic’s body covers what happens in both replays.
Doesn’t matter your star got stripped you gotta eject yourself as a coach hope they call a foul everytime
Yep no foul at all
You can’t be mad about foul calls when you’re initiating contact and forearm shoving. It’s the main reason why his off the dribble game has ever worked.
Chris Finch started a revolution
It was his 2nd technical.
The prevous technical was after Jokic’s 2nd personal foul IIRC
Edit:
This is how it was shown on the Rockets commentary - via Streamable (no replays of Jokic/Adams contact, but more Adelman crashout)
Damn what an awful commentary. Meanwhile the Nuggets commentators being respectful and praising Durant and Sheppard whole game.
There’s nothing worse from a broadcast standpoint than when the commentators are so annoyingly bias.
One of the only perks of being a Nets fans is we have some of the best announcers in the league and they get hyped no matter who it is, good ball is good ball.
Gsw is insufferable
A person cannot be “bias”, they can be biased.
These were not Rockets announcers. I watched the Rockets feed. Ackerman was hugely complimentary to Jokic and the Nuggets.
Truly, horseshit game all around, but glad Marlowe and Winge didn’t stoop to their level.
It was a show put up by Adelman. Really not much by refs here.
Its not like okc thunder living with ref whistles and deserved one from the Finch
Genuinely, what’s bad about that commentary? I see everyone shitting on it but what are you saying is biased?
When I watch that replay, I have a hard time understanding what Adelman is upset about.
Yeah not sure where the foul was
There wasn’t one. he was just upset that Adams was using his arm to guard Jokic.
edit: why is this being downvoted?
Jokic uses his forearm every time he dribbles
yes, that is why it was dumb he argued it. Just saying that was his reasoning
I agree with you. I’m just saying why jokic doesn’t get the calls that his fanboys always cry about. They get mad whenever anyone matches his level of physicality. They pretend that teams are treating him like Shaq
I think it’s was pent up from the prior 15 mins of officiating
Weird to blow the gasket on what was arguably the right call. Even weirder for this sub in unison to cheer him on for it. Same shit happened last night with Finch. I don’t think people complaining about refs or fouls have any standing when this is what they think fouls are.
valid crashout
What’s he crying about? Adams plays solid defense not fouling, then Smith comes and steals the ball without fouling
The footage clearly shows Dort, Cason, and Caruso hacking Jokic! Unreal!
Refs were starstruck by world-famous philanderer Ime Udoka tonight
He got his money’s worth with that 25k
Holy shit you’re right. It worked
KD has me cracking up. Perfect timing when he walks into the frame.
In his post game interview he said “I was confused, went looking for answers, didn’t get any and then was told I had to leave” 🤣🤣🤣 He is such a smooth low blow deliverer!
for the rebellion
The refereeing in this game has been legit malpractice, some of the worst I’ve seen all season.
lol Rockets got there first foul 7 min into the second quarter, thats insane
Meanwhile Jokic had to sit the bench for 2 touch fouls 4 min in
We say this literally every week
It wasn’t even a foul lmao
How many head coach ejaculations is it gonna take for Silver to get the message, the refs are out of control!
Yea, how many more head coaches are going to blow their loads in the middle of the game this season.
Reasonable crashout
Refs vs coach
the nba product sucks. the refs suck, the flops suck, the last minute being 30 mins long sucks. I dont think ill watch a game for a while after this.
Not to mention they never start on time. Lots of room for improvement
It’s a valid crashout
Crashout season
Refs have been fucking terrible today. Was bound to happen
Hell yes. Fight back!
Being a NBA ref is one of the only jobs where you can just be consistently dogshit with no consequences
So where’s the foul, I’m watching the replay and cant see the foul frustrated Adelman that much??
whining for no reason, both swipes got all ball
coach ref civil war is going hot
Ik I’ll be accused of bias, but I dislike the Rockets more than the Nuggets.
There’s no foul on that play…
There’s contact between Adams and Jokic, but 99% of it is legal and it’s the softest call ever if that’s what you are giving. Jabari then came in cleanly for the strip.
Other calls tonight, yea I can understand that reaction. Not this one.
Finchy showing all these coaches it’s time to rise up against these fuck ass refs.
How long has Nate Bargatze been an assistant coach for Denver?
More head coach should do this, these refs think we watch for them.
his voice and the double take leading to the approach is GOLD
Didn’t win tho
yall remember last year when there was a week where 2 coaches publicly went after the refs? maybe it can be more sustained this year
There’s no integrity in the officiating. I hope more coaches go nuts on refs who aren’t doing their jobs.
And Silver wants to bring back the dude giving priority calls for the Celtics lol this league is cooked
we baseball now
Bro thought he was chris finch
I love the directness of his message!
“What the fuck are you looking at!”
No ambiguity in that statement!