[Highlight] Chris Finch and Tony Brothers have to be separated after they start jawing at each other
I’m supposed to believe he’s going to be impartial the rest of the game?
To be fair, I don’t think he’s ever impartial
this
These
So he is extra extra got it
Always has been… he’s a hack
Is it bias or incompetence?
Yes
Isn’t he the Angel Hernandez of the NBA?
The Scott Foster erasure. That said, I’m gonna go with CB Bucknor
“Doh” Ed Malloy and Zach Zarba. It’s really bad that we know so many ref names
Wolves didn’t get another call
Also didn’t get any buckets either.
Sad but true
Well we did get one but it didn’t matter
What call did they not get after this? Lol
Wemby catching the ball, then falling on his knees and sliding is a really obvious travel call missed. However, refs were literally letting everything go uncalled, so I can’t pretend both teams didn’t benefit in some ways
“Falling” you mean being pushed to his knees?
You want that called but not Castle bear hugging Ant?
When did he complain about it? The other guy was saying it should be a travel. A no call is fine given the physicality of the game
Call all of them, like all the fouls on castle when he drives up the court. Or every single time the wolves wrap their arm around Wemby in every possession. I’ll give you that they gave Wemby some leeway when he had 5 fouls, but like I said, call all of them.
The slide isnt a travel unless you were at a stop on your knees and then slide
didn’t he correctly overturn a challenge after that for out of bounds which could have been a foul on ant aswell if he really wanted to
I thought that review was crazy. That is a proximate foul in any regular season game.
Yes.
He wasn’t, threw a hussy fit and fucked us over for the last few minutes
Why is Brothers still a ref
Because of the ref union. It’s why there is 0 punishment to the refs for bad calls too
And there are people who will try to tell you unions are bad for workers
Bootlickers and temporarily disgraced millionaires
The more common stance is that they’re just bad. I think overall they do more good than harm but ref + police union really show the bad side of them.
That’s because police wield outsized influence and can fuck up people’s lives way more than like 99% of any given job.
Which is why a union isn’t very productive because it just gives immunity to cops who murder ppl
Police and ref union just seem bad cause of how people view police/refs. Plenty of absolutely useless teachers who inhibit kids education without doing anything actually malicious or inappropriate take too long to get fired cause of how the union protects them. Unions are great for the good honest people but the fact they protect the useless people who need to be gone is a valid reason to dislike them
Buddy this is an extremely basic and uninformed view on why police unions are bad and why people think they shouldn’t exist. Comparing it in any way to a teachers union or even any actual workers union making it harder to fire bad employees is unbelievably ignorant of their history, issues, abuses, or blatant corruption.
Taking 10 minutes to read about the San Francisco PD bombing their mayor’s residence in 1975 while on strike will tell you everything you need to know about police unions. Organized gangs of domestic terrorists that answer to no one.
Agreed. It’s a double-edged sword and just depends on the type of people if it’s composed of.
you are nuts if you think the ref union is even 1% as bad as police unions. There are many horrible unions but the refs union is not a big deal
This thread is fucking wild. Refs are annoying assholes, but they aren’t literal murderers lmfao
They didn’t say they’re as bad lol. It was an addition. They are both bad.
Doesn’t mean he has to work the playoffs, unless it’s by seniority.
he has to work the playoffs
The union says he does lol.
If Silver and the owners cared they could easily do something about it
So so unprofessional
As opposed to the consummate professionalism of the players and coaches toward refs
referees and players/coaches are, or at least should be, held to different standards. referees are supposed to uphold the integrity of the game. you can’t have refs acting like players and coaches, they’re supposed to be impartial.
I agree. If coaches get out of line give them the tech and move on. Arguing with them and lunging at them is insane behavior.
it’s like how do you watch that and believe that Tony Brothers is going to officiate the game fairly from that point on
Yeah de-escalation should be on the refs mind in that situation
It’s like when people defend abusive cops by saying “well regular people not held to their high standards were being mean first!”
And here I am as a therapist who’s worked in residential treatment with teenagers, day 1 skill 1 is learning how to keep a stone face when someone is screaming at you. I see many opportunities for growth for other people to learn and practice this crucial skill. I admit it does seem very hard for some people to learn.
I work with vulnerable adults and I feel you. I’ve had newer/younger staff think that a VA yells at them they can yell or hit back because they feel disrespected. No, you are held to a higher standard as the professional.
There are situations where you have to take the things you are trained for and signed up for.
Your job is to deescalate, not get even.
exactly lmao
Fuck Brothers especially, but it looks like Finch said some wild shit and Brothers got pissed off.
I’m saying bruh, I really disagree with the fact that refs are the only one expected to be professional, while players and coaches can scream obscenities at them all game long.
I can’t believe I’m reading someone defend NBA referees because they get yelled at. Poor babies, getting gestured at aggressively. Did you forget a thing called technical foul? They are almost exclusively “player said bad word” fouls.
The job of a referee is to exist outside the game and these referees appear very emotionally reactive. They deserve no defense, they consistently break the pace of play, which produces an awful product. Nobody pays money to see these people jog up the court.
I mean personally I think its stupid as fuck that players can be babies on the court and it would be great if the league made some strides towards limiting that. On the same note, a lot of anger from players does stem from inconsistent shitty reffing. And refs are supposed to defuse tension, but they all too often insert themselves into drama and make it worse.
Dude needs to be a WWE ref if he’s gonna get up to these antics constantly
Finch is one of us.
Are both brothers still in the league?
Man, Finch would fold this dude in half lol. We could’ve been done with Brothers had your bench not held him back 😔
He knows where the skeletons are buried
Well he got first place in a poll of NBA players’ favorite ref… although he also got second place for worst ref.
https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/4421645/2023/04/18/nba-players-poll/
Thats an insane lack of professionalism from a ref
If you think that’s insane, Jeff Teague told a story of how one time, his mom and aunt attended his first game and they were cheering everytime he touched the ball and Tony Brothers asked him “who are those hoes?”
Link to the actual story from Mr Teague
Jeff Teague has the wildest stories and ive never doubted a single one.
He somehow has been involved in so many iconic moments of the 2010’s. His perspective is always hilarious
he is the charlie murphy of the nba
Shit always checks out its crazy
Jeff teague is that one stoned friend on everybody’s couch
LMAO that’s so fucked up but it’s also such a fucking funny story I can’t lie
NBA has done such a good job cleaning up the “revelry” that happens on court, that it’s so funny realizing that the players and refs are just constantly talking shit to each other
Wtf?
This is the funniest NBA story outside the Larry Bird trash talk of Chuck Person.
bro this isn’t even in the top 5 funniest Jeff Teague NBA stories.
I very recently got into the Jeff Teaguverse. Dude’s gotta have the best and most entertaining post-NBA career.
incredible
There’s also the bitch ass motherfucker moment
https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/34951394/mavs-spencer-dinwiddie-alleges-ref-used-obscenity-tech
I mean depends what was said it probably was insane lack of professionalism by Finch aswell
Do they even have professionalism?
Refs should be able to jaw back more. Maybe they’d give less techs
Funny how this is “an insane lack of professionalism from the referee” but the coaches can do whatever and not get the same criticism. Coaches don’t have a right to verbally abuse referees.
I get it but coaches are not responsible for upholding the rules of the game, when a ref acts like this, how can they be trusted to act impartially for the rest of the game. Not saying coaches should be able to yell at refs but they have very different jobs
Joey Crawford kicked out Tim Duncan for laughing because he was on a power trip. CP3 has told the story of a ref who admitted he didn’t like him. The ref has admitted he didn’t like CP3 and has screwed him in every important game he’s been in.
It’s even worse in baseball.
this is straight from the 70s or 80s. love it
Weird he didn’t give him a tech before jawing back
That’s Wednesday for Tony Brothers
Worst show of lack of professionalism since yesterday when that one ref was yelling at AR
This went on for a lot longer than you’d think.
For context, Ant was trapped and finch was trying to call a timeout and it wasn’t granted. 2 seconds later the wolves had a 5 on 4 and Mr Brothers then decided to grant the timeout
On the flip side, Wemby was pushed to the ground on the inbounds, Spurs were trying to call timeout right in front of Brothers and he also didn’t allow it. It was the trailing official that granted the TO. Tony telling everyone to play on tonight.
After early on going to the monitor to check on something no one else had doubts on because he wanted a breather lol
That one was funny asl
18/f/Cali
My man
No you see that was a 3 wrongs make a right - the tony brothers didnt call the obviously foul, but then didnt call what probably was a travel when he fell down, but then he also didnt call the timeout despite being almost inside the spurs bench. Somehow that all ended up with spurs ball still which was right lol
why is a ref posturing and walking toward a coach like this? can’t be doing that lol
Because this is WWE
i usually don’t subscribe to this line of thinking but it’s getting hard, i’ve literally never seen anything like this before. a ref walking toward a coach aggressively, looking like he has intent to get physical. wildly unprofessional and inappropriate.
Listen to the whistleblowers podcast
I appreciate your service
Got any details to share as to why we should? Do they talk about stuff like this?
It’s a series on the donaghy scandal. They basically the nba the wwe of basketball
scripted?
It’s hilarious cause Joe Johnson on night cap just said last night that Tony brothers ain’t somebody you can play with at all 🤣
apparently not lmao. i never cared for the guy but i didn’t think he’d ever do anything like this
Yeah me either but they’re humans, it’s a tense situation, and being talked down to as a grown ass man is probably triggering
Tony Brothers and Scott Foster just ref to piss people off
Tbh I was pleasantly surprised brothers didn’t give him a tech on top of it all. Was half expecting to come back from commercial break with finch getting a T lmao. Would not put it past brothers at all
Who tf these refs think they are bruh
The main character of the show
Bro bitched about the refs all week and now he’s getting his fuckin flowers lmao. Finch wouldn’t shut the fuck up and kept coming on the court all night. Idk what everyone else was watching but this seemed warranted as fuck.
Referees have too much power and control too much of the game, this is crazy behavior from a ref. We need post game interviews with the referee’s explaining their calls asap.
Chris Finch is picking up the CP3 ref curse for the Twolves
We need a ref for the refs.
Who watches the watchmen?
And then a ref for that ref who oversees the refs
Sit his ass for the rest of the Playoffs. He’s 0 value added. Scott Foster too.
Just take him out back at this point
Remember that Albert Sanders is head of NBA officiating and should be holding refs accountable for their behavior and overall performance.
But Albert Sanders doesn’t appear to be doing jack shit about anything.
#Albert Sanders
Brothers has main character syndrome.
Reminds me of Joey Crawford
Brothers is an absolute joke
Adam Silver has lost control of the league. Embarassing.
No he doesn’t care, he just wants engagement and $$$. It’s just a storyline to him. Don’t you see? People have been freaking out about the NBA for decades, but it keeps growing hand over fist.
Can Silver keep pretending this isn’t a massive problem for much longer? These playoffs might end up in fist fights.
Prigioni giving brothers a little push at the end 🤣
Tony Brothers thinks we pay to watch his sorry ass
If a ref gets angry like that, they should be immediately removed.. the stakes are too high and there’s obvious bias from that point on..
Tony Brothers has been a pretty shite ref ever since his brother retired
NBA has to have the worst officiating of any league. When you know the officials name you just know they’re bad.
Obviously a coach getting into this isn’t great or professional, but a REF doing it is grounds for suspension/firing
Tony brothers doesn’t deserve to be a ref man
Really need to know what was said, I could absolutely believe Finch saying something that crosses the line. Could also believe Brothers just losing his cool after being abused all game by everyone
God forbid he call somebody a “bozo.”
I like brothers because he is always chill with our team, but this was mad unprofessional. Technical foul on him!
Refs saw austin reeves goinf about it and they all gonna start hitting back
I think Austin Reaves needs to have a half court huddle up with Tony now.
I’m sorry. There’s 0 circumstance a ref should ever move towards anybody like that. It would be like a judge jumping over the stand at someone. Brothers is such a joke.
Are the refs leading the league in hate right now?
about time
Ref fans eating good tn
The league might legit be better without any refs
Another twitch content for Jaylen Brown.
That snivelling rat of a human being Adam Silver is missing his vertebrae. Referees of a professional sport should not be acting like this, and they let players get away with grappling the MVP SGA. He needs more calls so they play fair defense on him, fucks me off man
The closest Tony should be to an NBA game is outside the arena with a cup asking for change
Tony brothers is unreal. How does the nba do nothing about this when he’s constantly been making games all about him for years? This is like Joe West or angel hernandez in the MLB, and silver is a joke of a commissioner for letting bullshit like this happen on what feels like a nightly basis
That’s the most unprofessional shit I’ve ever seen from Tony Brothers. And that’s considering he had set the bar at the ground. What a petulant child.
Well at least it wasn’t a tech.
Did Tony Brothers ask, “Man, who them hoes?”
This was the second time he had to be held back from Finch lol
I can’t wait for this to be the only narrative in the press conference.
“How much are they paying you!?”
“Not enough!”
Wonder what finch said
Two days in a row we see a ref stepping out of line like this that’s crazy
the refs are out of control these playoffs
what the fuck
I’m ordinarily sympathetic with their thankless, quite difficult job…but Brothers and Goble absolutely warrant disciplinary action for this sort of stuff. Players are expected to be steeled at all times emotionally, even if they get hit by another player. No excuse for a game official to lose it.
There is a special place in hell for Tony Brothers
NBA refs can be super sensitive lol
The fact this wasn’t a technical breaks my brain. I’ve never seen a ref and coach come at eachother this way and they just call it even.
Double tech called, you just missed it
Uncle ruckus back at it
Brothers-y love
Love this
No lie this gives me life
Wolves gonna huddle around him in the postgame haha
As an impartial observer, it really didn’t seem like the refs favoured one side or the other in this game.
One of the things nba is missing. Some good old fashion baseball style manager vs ref arguments
Refs can’t act like that.
This is one instance where I actually think the robots would be preferable to the humans. Leave the artists and creatives alone, but please let’s build robot refs with quantifiable reliability and get back to focusing on the ball going in or out of the basket.
jeff teague is gonna have a field day with this
I hope this is the moment that forces him into retirement. Completely uncalled for and unprofessional. This shouldn’t happen, at all, and can’t be allowed to happen by the league.
I’ve never seen this in any sport let alone basketball
Finch is such a loser
If they refereed the NBA the way they do college and high school, this would go away overnight.
You talk to the refs, you get a T.
Need the post game interview with Tony
T him up and keep it moving
I hate Tony Brothers, the ref
2 men doing their jobs, more at 11
The NBA has lost it.
Kinda reminds me of Courtney Kirkland moving in to butt heads with Sean Livingston a couple years ago
Ok so is this refs and players thing new? I can’t really remember seeing it before but there was shitgobbler goble yelling at reeves yesterday and now brothers doing this today. Am I crazy or is this happening more than it used to
Wolves never got a call because they don’t flop. Brothers really lost it, he needs to be suspended.
As a person who was there Tony had to be restrained for a while… That’s when I knew we’d lost the game.
WHO DEM HOES IS
I think the title is wrong only one brother was shown here
Assistant coach there was finger pointing too until he realized Tony might actually be crazy and then he immediately went to patting him on the back to calm him down.
2v1
Probably talked shit about his brothers Mike and Dan
NBE
This league must address the reffing problem. it is the single biggest issue in the NBA right now.
The NBA should have forced Brothers into retirement years ago. The. Again they still have Scott Foster reffing 😬