De’Aaron on the Blazers physicality: “If they’re gonna be officiated and let them be physical just let us be physical back”
Do teams even try to outplay each other to win a series at this point? or just game the refs more
Some version of this soundbite has come out of every single series
OKC’s coach has admitted he asks his team to never bitch at the ref because he knows that psychologically it eventually results in preferential treatment. This isn’t new
You got a link? Genuinely asking.
I don’t remember Mark ever talking about it but Shai has always said things along the lines of officials being human too and not being perfect when asked about missed calls or things like that
What Shai says is true. Crazy how many nba fans expect the refs to be robots.
Crazy how many refs expect the players to be robots
At least you got one on your team!
Two things can be true. They are human, and humans make mistakes. They could also be making egregious calls to influence games
Some also love to double down on their mistakes
I wish we could get some robots for refs
Good to hear some folks talk about this. As a former baseball umpire (high school and younger) for many years I got yelled at many times, some mistakes but often it was the right call just not in their favor. Replay helps with this but so wish it was faster.
Id be shocked if he said that publicly but with that said, I 100% believe it to be accurate. It actually makes our team a lot easier to watch without the constant bitching (though jdub does it quite a bit still) but I can guarantee refs appreciate that and probably give a little bias to them even if they don’t mean to. People like to be treated respectfully, it’s not surprising.
With that said though, doesn’t Luka and the Lakers put a huge hole in this conspiracy?
It only works when you’re better than the other team too though. Refs are notorious frontrunners. Not necessarily consciously, but if they see you as an S-tier defensive team, then fouls start looking like great defensive plays to them. A team with a shitty defensive reputation isn’t going to get that benefit of the doubt. I think that’s where the idea of a superstar whistle comes from too. “You are a great player, so how could you have missed that shot unless you were fouled”. They have expectations and biases and their officiating follows that template.
No one ever makes this point. Its a good one. No one in the league office cares about your team winning and losing. The refs just have natural human biases.
Same reason some refs give a road team better whistles. Some people are naturally antagonistic which means they’ll favor the underdog, be anti-home crowd.
At the end of the day these are humans with both conscious and unconscious biases.
The “call it evenly” trope is pretty lame. Be better at tricking refs, because they aren’t doing this on purpose. They see and hear what they see and hear.
and it is complete nonsense for a guy to complain about uneven calling right after a game without even having time to watch video. Every player thinks they were calls missed that didn’t go in their favor. That is just how humans perceive things.
To be fair, winners have less motivation to bitch. I’m guessing if y’all have lose a series and there’s some shit calls, things will be said.
When we were a play-in team or before when we were not great, it was a pretty clear and intentional trait of the team. Just no whining or bitching, especially not to the press afterwards
Fair enough
I’m consistent. I bitch when they’re up 35 and get a bad call.
You would make a good point if no one spoke before a series is over. You act like we didn’t have a first round exit two years ago or what about all the games we lost last year during the playoffs? No one is bitching on the team if you go back and look at their post game interviews after a tough loss. It’s intentional. I’m not sure what they do to get their guys to not bitch, but Im guessing it’s a trait they are drafting and acquiring vs just telling them to not do it.
It’s not a trait we are drafting. Not bitching isn’t wingspan or height, but it’s a learned skill. It’s not hard to control your mouth and emotions. Our coach barely complains and the players are expected to not complain. It doesn’t really help winning at all. They can talk to a ref and say “hey keep and eye out for this” but yelling at refs and whining to media doesn’t help win games and is not something mark wants from our players and our players really respect mark and the organization
actually makes our team a lot easier to watch
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Y’all also just don’t have to complain as much because you win all the time and the refs are constantly giving dort and Caruso Lee way and SGA has the most favorable whistle in the game.
So guys like jdub and Chet don’t really have much reason to complain about anything.
I guarantee if you guys were getting officiated the way that other teams were against you guys the complaints would skyrocket.
Their team literally bitched at the ref to give Book a tech last night for 0 reason and they listened. what are they talking about lmfao
So one person, Caruso, casually walking off saying “that’s a technical” is all the sudden on the same level as a post game conference calling out refs names or talking about “unfairness”. Give me a break. Weak as shit.
Indy matched OKC’s physicality in the finals last year and neither team really bitched at all. Had a lot to do with them nearly winning the series, IMO.
Not everyone has the horses to pull that off though.
Nothing about that team is “easy to watch” 😬
Easier to do that when you get preferential treatment from the get go letting you maul on defense and flop on offense.
Kind of a chicken and egg situation here
Which is doubly hilarious because OKC players whine non-stop about foul calls.
people just out here saying shit lol
He’s half correct. SGA did say something similar to that
And that’s smart by him.
That’s really good advice. I think Pop did something similar.
You say “admitted” like its some kind of scandal and not a good thing that we dont bitch at the refs lmao
Caruso literally asked for a late tech and got it and earlier in the season he bitched publicly on a no call for a loose ball going out of bounds against the spurs lol let’s not be delusional
Caruso literally bitched at the refs last game to give Booker a tech, which somehow worked.
Caruso looks like a ref, so maybe they forgot he’s still a player when he made the call
Ha ha - how many times did OKC’s players complain to the refs last night? (It was a lot).
I wonder how thats working out for them
This is just smart in general.
don’t think knicks hawks have said anything about physicality
Mike Brown complains about the different officiating for Jalen Brunson and CJ McCollum
“I’m still trying to figure out what’s a bump and what’s not a bump. You see a guy like CJ drive, and if you chest him, it’s a foul. Jalen’s driving, and he’s getting the same bump,” Brown questioned after the Knicks’ Game 2 loss to the Hawks. “He’s not as light or as quick as CJ, so the speed may not be the same. But when he’s going, he’s getting hit, and he’s getting knocked away from the bucket,”
“I’m still trying to figure out what’s a bump and what’s not a bump. You see a guy like CJ drive, and if you chest him, it’s a foul. Jalen’s driving, and he’s getting the same bump,” Brown questioned after the Knicks’ Game 2 loss to the Hawks.
“He’s not as light or as quick as CJ, so the speed may not be the same. But when he’s going, he’s getting hit, and he’s getting knocked away from the bucket,”
Mind you CJ had significantly less free throws than Brunson who just straight up played a subpar game by his standards and Brown is still trying to whine and ask for more free throws. Annoying af. They’re also letting the Knick’s get away with some pretty egregious moving screens as the two minute report of game 2 showcased but Quinn hasn’t bitched at all about that in his press conferences. Knicks might win this series but I think they’re a mentally weak team. Not a serious championship contender.
Mike brown did
Yeah reffing has been fine in our series tbh
Don’t think I’ve heard anything from the Toronto vs Cleveland series either tbh
Game 1 had some soft ass fouls for Cleveland but Toronto couldn’t make a shot to save their lives so it didn’t even matter
Ngl I feel like game 2 went the same way, they showed a good fight at the end and definitely had higher energy than us, just felt like a lot of the shots they needed to fall weren’t falling. Game 3 will be interesting, I love postseason Jurassic Park, place is electric and we’ll see if Cleveland can handle that energy level. Quickly playing would also be a big return, Toronto knows this is essentially a must win game and I think Cleveland needs to be ready for them to come out swinging and keep the foot on the pedal.
Indy in the finals last year for sure.
I haven’t heard anything for the Detroit series
Of course you havent. Both teams playing are physical as fuck and like playing in the mud. Its all the finesse teams bitching and moaning about the refs.
I’m sure you’d be able to find some ref bullshitting in the Rockets-Lakers series(especially if you’re a Rockets fan), but right now it is genuinely JJ outcoaching the shit out of Ime.
Refs are the most importantly thing in modern basketball. Silver has made it this way.
Phil Jackson did this all the time back in the day. He’s the first one that I remember, but I’m sure it was done plenty before him
Obviously teams still have to go out and win the game, but yes, this is a part of gamesmanship now, working the refs. It used to be just the coaches, but now it’s coaches and players. That’s what happens when you don’t allow officials to be interviewed post game to be held publicly accountable, they’re going to continuously get called out.
Yea, let your coach talk about the refs. Lord knows JBB will.
Everone just complains about the refs
Did you see how many uncalled arm pulls happened in Blazers vs Spurs? Every game deserves the refs being complained about.
Before the lob to Williams to ice the game, Deni was literally pulling on his defenders jersey. Idk how these things go uncalled. I hate how rules change on the final possessions
The blazers head coach literally got a tech for yelling at the refs for missed calls. Didn’t get any more obvious when clingan went up for a dunk to get met with an elbow to the ribs & no call with the ref right there
Deni pulled Harrison Barnes arm and injured his wrist, no foul call…
It feels like every single series has this now
Stealing this from a tweet but Apparently almost every series HAS been like that
The Spurs lose and De’Aaron Fox publicly complains about the refs, the Wolves lose and Chris Finch publicly complains about the refs, the Raptors lose and Darko Rajakovic complains about the refs. The Cavs won(!) & Kenny Atkinson was called the Raptors master foul drawers, CJ McCollum complained about Brunson flopping, Mike Brown complained about Brunson’s whistle, Ant said the Wolves know they’re coming into games and won’t get a fair whistle lol.
Chris Finch complaining about refs is the free space on the bingo card. It would be less work to mention the games he doesn’t complain about the refs after.
The refs do legit suck
refs have always sucked though, but its by design.
sports media has been incredibly optimized and fine tuned to captivate our attentions. everything is now engagement bait.
the fact is, no league does engagement bait better then the nba. bad news sells. controversy sells. the league amplifies it all through every platform imaginable. they lean into people’s confirmation bias, and in turn create new haters. its so much easier to give people a team to hate than it is to give a team to support.
how else do you get people to care about an OKC vs PHX game where the last game was a blowout? you create controversy by some horrendous ref calls, then you amplify it all.
look at how everyone’s talking about the game last night vs any of the other playoff games. Denver vs Minnesota Game 1 didn’t get nearly half the engagement that OKC vs PHX game 2 did, and that was a damn good game.
Basketball is a really hard sport to ref. Watch any other league and you’ll see that sadly the NBA refs are the best ones available. College and WNBA reffing is actually a joke
Its funny watching the Pistons v Magic physical contest vs the other games. It’s very different than the other series.
Like a brutal screen into a them really trying each other at the rim for a no call here.
This is the thing that’s causing the frustration I think. Every series is getting called differently based on the teams in the series. That should not be happening
100%, I don’t get how that’s not obvious to the front office tbh
Is that a player problem or a bad ref problem? I lean heavily towards the latter
Especially Reddit
Fox you sold the game too, it wasn’t just the refs but even then you can’t use that excuse as the teams 2nd best player, he has to move forward & try to not let them get in his head
Fox doesn’t do accountability super well.
Best you’ll get is a passive aggressive fox.
PREACH!!!!
The guy that did a crypto scam rugpull doesn’t do accountability?! Shocked.
Pop always used to tell guys that if you didn’t do enough to win regardless of the refs that’s on you. I hate ref-blaming shit regardless of whether it’s true. No excuses.
Only thing I care about is that it’s called consistently. Want to call it tight? Fine. Want to let them play? Fine. Just do it the whole way. Calling it tight for stretches and then loosening up and then going back to tight is infuriating and no one ever knows what’s a foul.
I also just don’t remember the officiating being so inconsistent during Pop’s era. I’m sure it was to an extent, but it was also the deadball era where the default was to just let them play.
This is off of memory, so correct me if I’m wrong, but wasn’t there a study a few years ago that really dove into some analytics on reffing in the NBA and showed that they had gotten objectively better over time. The difference is now we all can scrutinize it more in our time and nitpick things that years ago would have never been seen or reviewed by most people and so our perception is that they’re missing more now than they were back in the day
I can try to find it to make sure I’m not just misremembering this
I am unfamiliar, but would definitely be interested to read if you can find it
Quantifying implicit biases in refereeing using NBA referees as a testbed - PMC https://share.google/upSga9o4dcZ40uSEF
This isn’t the study I was referencing but is one I came across when searching. I scanned the abstract and results and sounds similar although the focus was a bit different. I don’t have the time right now to digest this entirely so if someone has more time maybe they can.
I’m very confident that the study I’m remembering was referenced in Michael Lewis’s “Against the Rules” podcast during the season he dove into referees in other aspects of life. Episode one is where he talked about the NBA to kick off the topic. I’ll keep searching to see if I can find the study as opposed to just his mention of it
Tim Duncan once got a technical for sitting on the bench laughing. Officiating was even worse in the 2000s. You could literally check the assigned officiating crew before the game to see how the game was going to go.
And if you have issues with the officiating, cool. I meant for players like Fox.
Honestly as a basketball fan* excited to see castle and Harper outgrow fox, I have a hard time thinking he’s not fools gold
How is life as a basketball?
Bouncy, I imagine
It has its ups and downs
Wha size basketball are you?
Bro is the goat at complaining to the refs with animated elbowing gestures
I’m sorry, but Fox isn’t even the greatest Spur to complain about fouls.
Why would the NBA be giving the Trail Blazers of all team preferential treatment? Especially when the freak of nature future face of the league is on the Spurs
Their whole argument falls apart because they can’t answer that. I’m sure the league really wants Wemby to flame out against Portland in the first round, or the giant OKC market to have the best team in the league.
Not to mention Deni, by far our best player, only played 29 minutes because he was in foul trouble the whole game…
Everyone knows that’s the league makes the most money when tiny OKC wins. All the billionaires pulling for OKC…..
7 games make more money than 4.
Edit to add - let me be clear - I’m not saying it’s rigged or that the nba favors one team more than another,but let’s not pretend that there isn’t a benefit of a series being more dramatic
Sure but then why help OKC? And if Wemby’s out they should want to help SAS just to be safe so they can move on.
Sure but then why help OKC?
OKC is their golden child. There’s a story in them being their top winner. They want them to beat down Phoenix it seems.Each time Suns made their run, they’d get mucked up by some sus calls.
OKC is one of the smallest markets in the league, they probably hate that they’re on top. And by that logic why wouldn’t they want SAS to win? Wemby is already a bigger name than SGA and would make for a much bigger story
OKC gets shafted by the refs a lot more than people are aware, to be honest. They won’t acknowledge any time other than when OKC happens to get the benefit though lol. I honestly think they have a really average whistle when you actually sit down and watch more than like two games with hatewatching intent. There was a ton of stuff that went the Suns’ way this game as well.
I think it’s more than just NBA highlights these days. It’s the betting markets too (spreads, the series games). Spurs should win against Portland but it’s likely dragged out an extra game or 2 longer.
OKC is one of the smallest markets, but so is Spurs. It’s a global game with betting markets now too. The reffing has alays been suspect but feels like it’s getting worse. Suns got called for some questionable stuff. It’s not always about the straight win but I think it goes down to betting market. It’s why the min games matters to them for awards and scores game to game. Injury reports are important for bettors too. FanDuel, Kalshi…
More games = more money. Look, it was answered.
There’s some betting market to it too. That’s where the money is when you consider FanDuel (and Kalshi) is a major sponsor now. They can of course help Spurs in another game if they fear it’s going to end in 5 games.
No reason, Spurs are just entitled and expect to walk to the second round
Dundon used the money he saved on late checkout for staff members to bribe the refs
Omg it all makes sense now
El Cheapo sends his regards.
I mean I’m not saying this is what is happening but the nba wanting series that are closer and not 4-0 sweeps seems pretty possible. Portland is playing a style of defense that is like if we are physical every possession they won’t call it all. And they aren’t. But the spurs play physical on defense too. Spurs didn’t lose because of whistles in the last one. They lost cause Fox and castle and Vassell couldn’t make a bucket down the stretch. They were up 9 with 5 minutes to go and then fell apart. Fox just being a little baby here looking to blame something else.
Blazers also were way less physical in game 1 AND got called for a ton of fouls. It didn’t look like their game at all. They had to be going into that game 2 with the mindset to be way more physical.
Not that it’s necessarily representative, but I recall a specific Vassell drive from Game 1 where he started at the 3-point line, drove, bumped his defender once, snapped his head back, bumped his defender again, did the same thing, and then used the resultant space to make a contested layup attempt, where he drew a very generous foul call because the defender had the audacity to not teleport out of his way.
This doesn’t mean that there’s a conspiracy, only that it’s dispiriting to see a player - any player - execute close to perfect defense and be penalized for it. It also sucks when your team is trying to do a defensive stand and it feels as if the league has prioritized offense to such a point that it comes across as a miracle when the other team doesn’t score points off a generous foul, or a basket which came into being because the defender couldn’t defend appreciably under the current rule interpretations.
Personally, one of the reasons to enjoy the playoffs is because there’s more whistle-swallowing, teams have to earn their points in more serious ways, and tough baskets matter more.
Spurs mainly lost because they couldn’t get a defensive rebound. That’s always been their weakness even when they had Timmy. Without Wemby they have no real defensive rebounding prowess. Also, aside from Barnes there is no playoff experience. Playing high stakes games where every possession and rebound matters is a huge change from regular season games. It’s a learning curve for them that they have to figure out on the fly. If, a big if, they get past Portland they will get beat by the Nuggets or by the Wolves. The Spurs are a few years ahead of schedule, but they will not make it past the second round this year.
45-43 advantage for the spurs on the boards in that one. They gave up some bad offensive boards clingan is one of the best in the league at getting those. but it wasn’t some huge issue. Kornet is a good rebounder.
Kornet did do a good job out there, dude was hustling and trying to make plays. He just isn’t Wemby, obviously, but hopefully he can elevate his game to fill the void while Wemby is out. While the Spurs had the overall advantage, they couldn’t get the rebounds to close the game out. And Scoot had a hell of a game as well which made a difference.
Kornet has a ring, too.
You are correct, I forgot about that.
Haha right, we all know POR are the NBA darlings.
Hes still adjusting now that he’s lost the favorable Sacramento Kings whistle.
We thunder fans have asked this question for two years and no one seems to have the answer. For fond reason the nba just loves small market teams so much they will risk their integrity
Holy shit every single team is complaining about physicality. This is so lame, just play the damn game and if you cant adjust then its your flaw as a player.
“Physicality” and blaming refs has literally become a cop out for players that perform badly or coaches that get outcoached. If one or two bad calls are enough for you get disorganized then thats a bigger problem to address
The problem isn’t physicality but lack of consistent officiating.
This is literally not a modern problem. If anything officiating was rotten as hell most of the league’s history. With L2M, challenges, reviews, its gotten better than ever.
What people dont realize is that with social media and being under constant recording means a single bad call gets immediately published to millions of people online, whereas in the 80’s or 90’s you either watched the bad calls live (with shoddy replays) or you happened to tape the game.
Can the officiating still be dogshit? Absolutely, but its nothing new and players are using this front to escape accountability. Fox shouldnt be talking about this specifically, as a lot of shots he missed in the first two games were entirely on him
Ya agreed. Honestly, I think the core issue is basketball is extremely hard to officiate. The rules for defending a ball handler are similar to pass interference in American football, except there is way more shifting, both in direction and speed. You also have to guard the player tighter in basketball, and are looking for opportunities to reach in and steal.
Especially in real time. People dont get how hard it is to see discrete fouls that happen inside a players cylinder while they drive and stuff.
The T on Book yesterday was bullshit though, and the issue is places like this and highlight channels/accounts post the few shitty calls and everyone only engages with those.
The problem is there even being such a thing as a playoff whistle. That should be the standard. You can’t suddenly change how games are officiated because it’s the postseason. Refs also seem to change how they make calls throughout each game as well.
Our play in game against Phoenix went through some combination of letting one or the other team get away with everything, to letting everyone do it, to letting nobody do it.
i love when the complaint is “just let us play the same way,” and then you watch videos and one team has a guy that completely fucks over their whole defense and they foul basically every time down the court. Maybe you guys should go slap around the weak link on defense for a few hundred hours this off-season instead of whining.
I can promise you the nba ain’t favoring the blazers over the spurs
Refs favor flopping. There’s footage from the game of Fox asking a ref if he needs to fall to get the foul. It’s annoying to watch and I think Fox has a point.
The nba does favour 7 games series..
I’m not saying this is the case here one way or another, but trying to make it about one team or another ignores the simple fact that 7 games make more money than 4.
-14 in the game and you’re talking about “physicality”. Maybe try and make some shots
lol fuck off forced your way to the spurs so you could be the second option to Wemby now go second option.
A-fuckin-men. Everyone gave him so much shine for his one playoff year with the Kangz and the one playoff series where he was very good. Now he has a chance to do it on a team with an actual chance and he’s shitting the bed.
Appreciate you 🙏🏻
One day NBA fans will realize that these overpaid players (Fox, Booker etc…) are attempting to dodge accountability for underperforming by crying about refs, one day
That booker tech was trash. Booker is fine player too his second and third options average 41% (51% TS) and 43% (54% TS) from the field which is the bigger problem imo.
Dude spent 2 games talking to the refs instead of balling
Spurs have a +11 FT differential in the series and their fanbase and apparently their team can’t stop talking about the refs. What getting beat by the Portland Trail Blazers does to a mf I guess
Translation: “I’m a whiney baby who had a bad game and don’t know how to take accountability so I had to find someone else to blame”.
The spurs will be fine, they just have to play better. Nobody stepped up in crunch time for them. Thats on them not the refs 🤷♂️
I just hate how ALL 30 TEAMS think the refs are against them and there is some sort of agenda. Like dude, I get it, the refs make mistakes, but don’t you guys think EVERY team complaining about refs makes it so that they make mistakes for everyone?
Fun fact: every team has lost every game officiated by Scott Foster.
Lmao dude. I don’t understand it anymore. Everyone just thinks it rigged against there team. Like there’s some conspiracy theory by Adam Silver to help OKC bc surely that will benefit the league and make them more money
Well you could argue there’s an incentive for there to be more games. So maybe all teams are affected at some point if it’s intended to extend a series. But I don’t think it’s that deep. There’s bad calls every game and the losing team will always complain about them
I think the only incentive is with bigger market teams and even then I rarely see it. The only way the league would generate more revenue and get a incentive is having them be favored in officiating.
The thunder do not bitch about the ref. Not publicly at least.
Holy little bitch take lol. League is absolutely trying to carry the Portland Trail Blazers over their poster child freak of nature Wemby and the Spurs. (No hate to Wemby)
Lol. Lmao, even
Chris Finches bitching and its consequences have been a blight on this league.
getting so tired of every player and coach in the league whining about officiating
Outside of this thread, it appears to be what online fans want. Its so annoying.
Deni was in foul trouble all game and played his worst game in awhile. Maybe Fox can try and stay in front of Scoot because Castle can’t do it.
Scoot was amazing. The win had nothing whatsoever to do with ref bias.
Yea…the physicality is not why Fox is playing poorly in this series lol. He’s just sucking
Chris Finch is such a trend setter!
THE SPURS SHOT FIVE MORE FREE THROWS THAT GAME.
Is not the amount of free throws but how they get them
I am a King’s fan and it is not uncommon to have dozens less free throws per game. Especially in games that count….I’ll never forget Luka and DAL shooting 50 free throws to our 12 - sorry PTSD moment…. Fox was there! Anyway, I don’t want to hear a damn thing from anyone on any team that has more attempts in a game. Period.
I am memeing lmao, that is what people say when okc ft stats are pointed out
It’s the playoffs, De’Aaron.
Plus the reason Wemby is out is because Jrue, with loads of playoff experience, pulled the chair on him once in each of the first two games as Vic was spinning recklessly toward the hoop.
The ONE thing I’m afraid of with all of the ref discourse is players weaponizing it as an excuse to be overly-physical or as an excuse to try and get out of playing poorly.
You didn’t do that shit for 8yrs don’t act like you’re about to start now, tough guy.
Holy fuck does reddit get fucking tired of making every fucking post about officiating??? I swear when I talk basketball in real life people don’t give a fuck.
We give a fuck about egregious calls like the T on Booker but not so much the entire game like this. This is just whiney AF.
Stfu Fox, stop being a bum and the team needs to go prove they aren’t just a bunch of Wemby merchants
What a bitch
The Spurs won the whistle both games, what is he talking about?
You’ve been getting more fouls and FTs dude, refs have been consistent(ly bad) in this series
This generation of NBA player and fans are such pussies lmao. Every game it’s ‘the refs are favoring the other team wahhhh😭’. Meanwhile there’s no statistical evidence to them getting a favorable whistle and there was almost nothing that egregiously wrong in the officiating. I guess it’s better to cope and be like we would’ve won if the refs favored us instead of just admitting you got outplayed. It’s the same with pussy ass redditors that cry on every thread about refs. Y’all are just soft af like the players
Yeah NBA is all about the refs. Trash ass league
Fox isn’t that guy. He has the physical tools to be a dominant guard but he always takes the easy way out. Instead constantly attacking the basket with his speed and athleticism he likes to settle for jumpers. When they’re going in it’s cool no problem but when they don’t his laziness and lack of play making ability get exposed.
Booker bitching about officiating vs OKC: Awww you’re sweet
Fox bitching about officiating vs Portland: Hello, human resources?
Its so shameless lmfao
This mentality is so cancerous. As fans it’s easy for us to blame refs and point to their mistakes, of which there are many each game. But for players and coaches to constantly moan about poor officiating looks like they are too cowardly or too big of bitches to admit they just got outplayed, outcoached, out worked. They always gotta shift the blame away from themselves, pathetic imo
Yea sorry, you’ll just foul out in the fist quarter
Refs, refs and refs… anytime a result does not go a team’s way it’s refs…. what happened to accountability?
Blaming the refs when you play like dog isn’t a good look
Hey D’Aaron, they DID let y’all “play physical back”. They called 2 less fouls on your team and shot 5 less free throws.
Wtf?
I swear he said the same exact thing a few years ago when the Warriors and Kings were facing each other the playoffs
someone’s getting punched in the next game
Have been waiting for this to pop up. They shot more FTs than is in BOTH games. Deni averages the most drives per game and has taken 11 FTs total.
Has a single team lost and not complained about officiating
Bruhh
Need to revamp all the shitty touch foul rules. Let them play defense again.
Can take the kid off the kings but not the kings out of the kid
All we ask
Is the new strategy just bitching about the refs over and over again
Consistency in officiating should be a baseline
is wemby being a moron and faceplanting on the blazers
Did pull the chair on him
The refs do suck now. I hadn’t watched the playoffs just regular season since the Spurs weren’t in it the past few years. Watched every game of theirs but tuned out once their season ended.
It’s clear to me that the refs are a lot worse than 10 years ago. The quality and consistency is awful. People just want consistency and seeing foul baiters get crappy calls in their favor while their teams maul everyone on defense is infuriating.
It’s only cool if you like that team
Bro thinks he’s FTA