The Pistons have had a pretty decent whistle this season though, the refs tend to let them play pretty physical

All NBA has to do is start calling the flopping technical. Call 1-2 a game and watch players stop doing this pathetic ballerina shit

Shai praised the refs 4 years ago and look at him now.

These refs need to be pampered and stroked. They are like a Rolex AD except three times worse

The refs are a sensitive bunch, especially if you directly or indirectly call them out during a press conference.

Referees are basketball terrorists.

Eh, IDK. I think it’s mostly that players who don’t flop around & whine like crazy just don’t get calls.

Haliburton also gets practically nothing called. Guys can hack him on drives & bear hug him off ball, but the refs don’t call shit bc his flopping game is terrible.

I hate that players successfully get to the line by developing “flopping games”. I’d rather flopping & whining result in techs, but I don’t think that this is going to change.

It’s similar to how desperate NFL teams can get PIs called by:

1. Repeatedly calling deep passes that have no chance.
2. Having their receivers bitch to the refs to bitch as soon as the ball sails over their head.

What frozen pizza is king?

Getting the Jaylen Brown treatment

I’m sure that’s just a coincidence, our refs are paragons of professionalism

Welcome to watching Steph Curry his entire career!

I don’t know if basketball can survive long term with how much the refs decide.

I didn’t even interpret it as ref slander as much as calling out other floppers

They may not give him many calls but that is moreso because of the way his team plays. They play very physical and rarely get called for fouls on the defensive end, it wouldn’t be right to let them play physical on the defensive end and then reward a bunch of fouls on the offensive end. NBA allows teams like the Pistons and OKC to play super physical, that’s why it’s universally a joke that SGA gets so many free throws for his flopping antics. Same thing for Pacers last year and how it used to be for the Heat and Celtics in recent years too.

I think the refs were just letting both teams play tonight. The Pistons were also being incredibly physical on defense and there were multiple instances of contact against Bulls players that weren’t called.

Unfortunately players like Draymond Green can yell at the refs and get no punishment.

Yet if any coaches or players even tell or criticizes them. It’s all over for them.

Outside of tanking, this is what killing the league

Every player who isnt in the MVP race should be looking at players in the MVP race and see that flopping/whining is a winning trait in modern NBA and their job is to adapt until the league or the refs force it to be stopped. As is, it’s simply too good and too lucrative not to do it.

Same happened to Jaylen Brown, too. It will even out at some point

not saying i disagree with you (yet)–but to make this claim– you really also have to at least show how often he has been to the line *before* criticizing the refs.

1. for example, if there is no difference before and after, then either the refs have never been calling it for anyone, or, never have been calling it for Cade. regardless of Cade’s criticism.

2. even if there is some small difference, depending on your sample size, it also depends on if the samples include no meaningful change in play of Cade/the team, before and after.

Finally, even if it is case (1)–that’s also very different from the refs “act like children when someone calls them out”

Cade is stupid to say this, you just cant criticse the referees like that

in playoffs you will be in serious disadvantage if your team gets no whistles

I love Cade and he’s a great player a top 5 player but he complains about fouls too much and sometimes it causes him to take a bad foul like last night

This is why I can’t take True Shooting serious as a major stat, it’s so dependent on what kind of whistle you get

Cade usually doesn’t get a lot of calls. He has random stretches where he does.

I mean he isn’t really getting fouled as much either on his drives. It’s not like the world is going against him, he likes going for his middies and open drives which is his game.

petty bitches

A tale as old as time

Go check Mitchell’s free throw stats last year after he complained about the refs.

Same shit.

Jazz fined $500k as a result.

bLaTaNtLy ObViOuS

What he should do is criticize the refs after every game. Go scorched earth and have it go viral. It’s what Steph should have done.

Complain about refs not calling fouls = Luka
Complain about refs calling fouls = Cade

One of these savvy Mfers knows how the minds of the refs work.

soccer referee gives a flopping player a yellow card, why won’t basketball referees give technicals for flopping?

Yes because Cade is the first player to criticize a ref

I’m not gonna say they didn’t blow calls, but tbf Cade also just doesn’t go to the rim a ton lol

We assume all players should have the same FTr for some reason and totally ignore shot diet

prob gonna be like this most of his career unfortunately. he’s too ethical

So many players (cade and jaylen brown) have such a victim complex with the refs and free throws it makes me actually root for the floppers