Because sources say the Atlanta Hawks are not happy that the league is continuing to look the other way on the matter in the Eastern Conference Finals. You got guys fouling, putting their hands up. It seems like they can take liberties with big guys. So it was questionable but we got the win. Keith Pompey: Trae just got a tech for arguing with the ref. The league wants to limit the ability of players — including crafty stars like James Harden, Luka Doncic and Trae Young — to lean backward and sideways, for example — to initiate contact and get to the free throw line.
The NBA has shared a video compilation of player examples with the 30 teams that outlines a number of motions deemed unnatural that were used to draw fouls. While the concentration of these issues is often focused on star players getting much more usage and exposure with the ball, the league sees this as a universal problem throughout lineups and rosters — not only an issue for star players.
NBA wants to limit players — including stars like Trae Young, James Harden — from leaning backwards and sideways to draw fouls. Trae Young: A Flagrant 2?? Ja Morant: league soft.. Jeff Zillgitt: Steve Nash on P. You have to adapt and adjust. Austin Rivers' three-shot foul on Damian Lillard on the floor at the end of regulation, which was reviewed, was a "correct call. It was enough to make an old guy feel nostalgic about the s. Gallinari pretended to be oblivious to it all.
Maybe some of them were fouls, but every damn thing we did, the whistle was being blown. They are not basketball plays… Obviously, the officials can have the ability to make their calls and we have to live with that. I have had no guidance, or no communication with me regarding this.
The call was reversed via a challenge but the NBA ruled Davis had possession so it was Lakers ball rather than a jump ball. LeBron hit a 3-pointer eight seconds later. Trade , Top Rumors. Doc Rivers , Uncategorized. Doc Rivers , Ben Simmons , Philadelphia 76ers. Top Rumors. I don't think there was any foul play here. If anything, it would have been in the league's best interests for the Lakers to win and even the series.
I think the referees just did a downright terrible job. Game 7 of the NBA Finals is the first example on this list of referees bailing out a star player. It happens fairly often, but in Game 7 of the finals? Well, I'll let the numbers do the talking. Kobe Bryant was shooting terribly in Game 7. He ended up shooting 6-of from the field, but I believe at one point he was something like 2-of Ask any scorer, they'll tell you that when your shot isn't falling, you try to get to the line. And that's what happened in Game 7.
Kobe Bryant started barreling to the basket in hope of calls. And the calls came. He went to the free-throw line 15 times. As a team, the Celtics did 17 times. The Lakers ended up winning in the final moments. Kobe was given Finals MVP side note, he absolutely stole that trophy from Pau Gasol , and people seem to forget what really happened. If Ron Artest's three-pointer bricks in the final minutes, the Celtics may have won the game and the media would never stop talking about how Kobe can't beat the Celtics.
Kobe is a bigger star than Boston's entire big three combined. He will also be around a lot longer. If you wanted to say the league's best interests were for Kobe to win this series and instructed the refs accordingly, this is probably a good place to start. But was the game rigged? No, there's nowhere near enough evidence to support that claim. What probably happened was that the Lakers had an easier time getting inside because of the injury to Kendrick Perkins.
The refs knew this and had their whistles ready because of it. The Pistons led the Lakers by one point in the final moments of Game 6 of the Finals.
They fed the ball to Kareem, he posted up Bill Laimbeer and went up for a sky hook. He missed. Game over. Pistons win. The Pistons are the NBA champions. This is what should have happened. What actually happened was this abomination of a foul call. Kareem makes two free throws, the Lakers win the game and Game 7 and are the '88 champs.
Only, they really aren't. If the refs would have gotten a single call right, the Pistons would have won the series. Look at the replay again. I'd love for someone to point out where the foul is. The whole purpose of the sky hook was that nobody could block it. If nobody could get high enough to block it, how could Bill Laimbeer have gotten high enough to foul Kareem? He didn't, because, like everyone else, he didn't have the reach. This is probably the only call in NBA history to definitively swing a title, which is why it's so high on this list.
But was there a motive behind it? You could convince me of one. Bill Laimbeer was notoriously hated by everyone, especially the refs.
In a play between him and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, one of the five best players of all time, the tie is going to Kareem. Maybe that particular ref just has a loose definition of the word "tie," but I think there was some bias against Laimbeer involved here. If the same play happened with Hakeem Olajuwon defending Kareem, I doubt there's a whistle.
That is the mark of a true bad call. People remember Game 7 of the Western Conference Finals for the incredible comeback by the Lakers culminating in the most famous alley-oop in NBA history.
The Lakers had a free-throw advantage in that game. Neither were as high profile as franchise player Rasheed Wallace, but you could argue that they were more important in this particular game. In second place is Dallas, with One involves Nets swingman Allen Crabbe, who managed to score a tough bucket despite being bumped by one defender and being fallen upon by another at the conclusion of the play.
Two other examples show forward DeMarre Carroll being bumped or swiped across the arm while trying to get a shot off during the last 20 seconds of play. After many of the plays, you can see Brooklyn players turn to officials in disbelief over the fact that no foul was called. There are a handful of interesting takeaways from this data. For starters, it seems to provide evidence to support comments made by Brooklyn guard Spencer Dinwiddie in January suggesting that this young Nets team gets less respect from officials than other clubs.
In fact, that figure is already tied for the highest number of calls that left a player disadvantaged in a single year since the NBA first began publishing these reports during the season. By Chris Herring. To Read the Full Story. Subscribe Sign In. Continue reading your article with a WSJ membership.
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