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2 weeks ago – via ESPN

Speaking of Tuesday’s GMs meeting: Multiple sources say the liveliest topic of discussion centered around the possibility of implementing a coach’s challenge at some point soon. Some in the room favored a more limited challenge system focused on black-and-white rulings: out of bounds plays, goaltending, and the like — but not fouls. Others argued coaches should be able to challenge foul calls. The league would likely favor the more restricted concept, if anything. Allowing coaches to challenge fouls is something of a Pandora’s box. Should they be able to challenge non-calls, too? There was also discussion of whether a challenge should cost a team one timeout regardless of whether the coach “wins” or “loses” the challenge. Some in the room were wary of coaches using the challenge to create an extra timeout. Also: What if a team is out of timeouts?

2 weeks ago – via ESPN

Also discussed, per sources: stationing a “replay official” at the scorer’s table who could make some determinations (was that shot a 2-pointer or a 3-pointer?) without stopping play, and flag other plays right away so that referees would not have to huddle up and decide whether to trigger review. Thumbs up!

3 weeks ago – via Twitter Con_Chron

Connor Letourneau: Draymond Green on what the referee said when Green talked to him about Harden fouling him on the 3-pointer: “He said we probably missed that, and it’s not something we can review.”

3 weeks ago – via Twitter GwashburnGlobe

Gary Washburn: Hearing Kyrie Irving will NOT be fined for his Game 3 postgame comments about the officiating. #Celtics #Bucks.

3 weeks ago – via Twitter NBASarah

Sarah Todd: Monroe called for T. It was bound to happen. Refs let him get away with jawing after his last foul

3 weeks ago – via Twitter HarrisonWind

Harrison Wind: Stotts on the shoulder Jokic gave Kanter on the foul line box out in Game 3: “I have seen it and I think it was uncalled for. I don’t know if the league will review it or not. I certainly didn’t approve of it.”

3 weeks ago – via Twitter Enes_Kanter

Enes Kanter: Take a freaking look at this please @OfficialNBARefs @NBAOfficial

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— Enes Kanter (@Enes_Kanter) May 4, 2019

3 weeks ago – via Twitter BenGolliver

Ben Golliver: After Game 3 loss to Bucks, Celtics’ Kyrie Irving on Giannis Antetokounmpo’s free throw attempts: “He shot 22 on the game. It’s getting ridiculous at this point. It’s slowing the f—ing game down.”

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3 weeks ago – via Washington Post

“We know how many free throws [Antetokounmpo] has shot per game,” Irving said. “He’s a great player in our league. We know how many times he goes to the basket and gets contact. We also know how many times we go to the basket and get contact. “It’s a playoff game. Guys are playing very aggressive. When you get into the bonus with 8 minutes left in the third, it’s a shocker. It will put something in your mind where you don’t want to touch anyone.”

3 weeks ago – via The Athletic

After everything that happened in the wake of Game 1, when the Rockets were incensed with the officials and The Athletic story that followed fueled so much worldwide disdain for their Beautiful Mind style system, one had to wonder: How did all of the reaction land with Morey, who built this program that is designed for players to play the probabilities on a basketball floor as if it were a craps table? “I mean, I’ve been dealing with it for a while,” Morey said before deciding not to go any farther.

4 weeks ago – via Yahoo! Sports

Spend half an hour talking to NBA vice president of referee development and training Monty McCutchen about this week’s hot topic — a divide between players and officials overshadowing the start of the league’s highest-profile series — and you get the feeling that conspiracy theories so often floated by fans, players, coaches and even general managers are mostly laughable. “It really is,” McCutchen told Yahoo Sports by phone on Wednesday. “That’s often the case. What’s on the inside is much more normal and mundane than human. We’re trying to get plays right. We want to serve the game well. We have the same desires individually for success in our careers that other people do in their careers, and you do that by being impartial and upholding standards with a certain resolve and will. You most certainly don’t do that by being vindictive and living through your emotions. I’m proud of our group that they consistently do good work.”

4 weeks ago – via Yahoo! Sports

Several themes ran through our discussion, none more than the constant battle against public perception to ensure the game he loves remains impartial. McCutchen is essentially tasked with molding the NBA’s referees into a robot army capable of upholding standards void of emotion. “It’s like a race-car driver,” said McCutchen. “If you and I start driving 75 or 80 miles per hour, we might start to feel really uncomfortable behind the wheel. Like, I don’t feel like I’m able to take in the necessary information that allows me to be a good decision-maker at higher speeds, and those aren’t even high speeds compared to a race-car driver, but because they’ve trained, they’re able to process that information in ways that you and I can’t. It’s the same for referees.”

4 weeks ago – via Yahoo! Sports

“If people can’t remove themselves from those emotions, then they’re not capable of working this time of year or they expose that they’re not capable if given the opportunity and can no longer handle this, and they go backwards instead of forwards,” said McCutchen. “It’s all in the training. If we don’t train well, then we have to live with the results of giving into our emotions, but don’t mistake in my opinion the fact that refereeing is not the same as playing. “Playing is a much different emotional experience, because you’re banging, you’re playing a physical game. It’s much different as a referee, where your job is to rise above emotion and get to standards. If we can uphold standards, then we’ve had a successful night, which is sort of the antithesis of emotion. You’re saying to yourself, ‘It doesn’t matter what the situation is, I have a standard to uphold.’ Through our process of vetting who’s having the best years, we feel highly confident — not perfect — that we have the people to rise above and uphold our standards.”

4 weeks ago – via Twitter ASherrodblakely

A. Sherrod Blakely: Marcus Morris heard about Giannis Antetokounmpo accusing the #Celtics of excessive fouling. “Please! Borderline not fouling his ass, with him getting calls,” Mook said. “That just shows we’re probably getting to him by now.”

4 weeks ago – via Twitter VinceGoodwill

Vincent Goodwill: Giannis also adds: “Now, you gotta f—ing play. You can’t complain to the refs, you gotta play.”

4 weeks ago – via San Jose Mercury-News

It did not match the extent the Rockets had at the beginning of this playoff series. Nonetheless, Warriors coach Steve Kerr said the team plans to ask the NBA league office to rescind a double technical issued to Draymond Green and Nene late in the third quarter of the Warriors’ 115-119 Game 2 win over Houston on Tuesday at Oracle Arena. Green has four technicals, leaving him three shy of receiving a one-game suspension during the playoffs without pay. “Every time there’s an altercation, it’s a double technical. If you’re playing in the playoffs for a few rounds, those add up,” Kerr said. “If the way to handle it is to call a double technical, I think the league needs to consider that.”

4 weeks ago – via San Jose Mercury-News

It appears likely the NBA will rescind the double technicals based on recent precedent. Following Game 3 of the Warriors’ first-round series against the Los Angeles Clippers, the NBA rescinded a double technical on Kevin Durant and JaMychal Green. After Green fouled Durant on a hard screen, the two players engaged with what appeared to be playful banter as the two walked toward the other side of the court. Both players looked perplexed after they were issued with double technicals. “It’s a competitive atmosphere out there,” Kerr said. “It’s a playoff game. Guys are going to get tangled up.”

4 weeks ago – via ESPN

“I think both teams just realized what the hell was going on the last two days,” Green said. “You can’t really turn a blind eye to anything in today’s day and age, with social media and all these things. So everyone was aware of all the talk about officiating and about foul calls — come out and play the game. And I think both teams did a great job of that. “They weren’t complaining about many calls, we weren’t complaining about many calls, because it’s kind of embarrassing for the game of basketball, how much has been talked about, about fouls and officiating. What about beating your man? What about stopping your man? No one talked anything about schemes the last two days. It’s all been about foul calls. I think both teams were locked in on coming out and playing the game to the best of their ability. You have to give credit to both clubs, both teams did that.”

4 weeks ago – via ESPN

After arguing with referees about many calls throughout Game 1, both teams showed noticeably less emotion toward the officials at the start of Game 2. Neither team had many complaints about the officiating after Tuesday night’s game. “I didn’t even notice the officiating,” Warriors coach Steve Kerr said. “I don’t think anybody did. I think that’s the best compliment you can give them. They did a great job. This game was just about basketball.”

4 weeks ago – via Yahoo! Sports

“My brother is a referee,” Iguodala told Yahoo Sports. “He’s on the cusp of trying to get to the next level and I ask him a lot of questions. More times than not, he’s saying the referees are right. But my questions to him, and this is the one that gets him, is how do teams guard Steph and Klay [Thompson]? And he says, ‘Oh, they get hacked every time. He says Steph gets fouled 80 percent of the possessions that he’s in. He’s getting held, he’s getting pulled. They just hold him down.’ And teams are like, just get physical with him. We see all the memes where somebody is just knocking Steph down and it’s funny, right? But you never see it on the other side. You don’t see us knocking other people down and it becoming something because it’s just a foul. Foul, foul, foul, foul, foul.”

4 weeks ago – via Twitter sam_amick

Sam Amick: Since the tallies from the NBA’s 48 minute report are now officially a thing, we have an update: Source tells @TheAthletic that the league’s report from Game 1 of Warriors vs. Rockets indicated 17 missed calls for Houston and 11 for Golden State

4 weeks ago – via TMZ.com

There’s been talk for years that the way to fix bad calls is to have robot or computer refs take the court over (seems terrifying), but when we got Gobert out he said all that ain’t necessary. “I think it would take something away from the game if you do that.” Gobert, one of the best defensive players in the league, says that carbon-based refs are fine, as long as the players are able to have honest talks with them. “Dialogue is the most important thing.”

4 weeks ago – via Twitter WindhorstESPN

Brian Windhorst: Veteran official Scott Foster has been assigned to Warriors-Rockets tonight. Chris Paul, James Harden & Rockets have a long-running feud with Foster. He hasn’t worked a Rockets game since February, when Harden was fined for criticizing him after fouling out of a game in LA.

4 weeks ago – via Twitter Jonathan_Feigen

Jonathan Feigen: The first technical foul on Chris Paul on Sunday as well as the technical foul called on Mike D’Antoni will stand, per source. The Rockets sought to have both rescinded.

4 weeks ago – via Twitter AlexKennedyNBA

No suspension for CP3

Alex Kennedy: Houston Rockets guard Chris Paul has been fined $35,000 for aggressively confronting and recklessly making contact with a game official, it was announced today by Kiki VanDeWeghe, Executive Vice President, Basketball Operations.

4 weeks ago – via Twitter mcuban

Mark Cuban: If you want to know if NBA officiating will get any better, look at the @nbagleague officiating. 100% of our new officials come through there. We don’t invest 1/10 of what we should to train and develop our GLeague refs .

4 weeks ago – via Twitter mcuban

Mark Cuban: We have our former big name officials spending most of their time working with current NBA refs, and minimal time with GLeauge refs. It should be the exact opposite. Does anyone think refs with 20 years + experience are going to take advice from their former peers ?

4 weeks ago – via Twitter mcuban

Mark Cuban: IMO, one of the core problems of the group is the belief that only former officials know how to train current officials and identify and develop new talent. I couldn’t disagree more.

4 weeks ago – via Twitter mcuban

Mark Cuban: You don’t have to be a former nba player to coach or do player development. There is a long list of professions where the best training and management comes from those whose core competency is training and managing people. Officiating is no different. #endofrant

4 weeks ago – via Twitter loganmmurdock

Logan Murdock: James Harden on if he’d adjust to the refs as the series goes forward: “I don’t adjust to nothing. I’m gonna play how I play and that’s what it is.”

4 weeks ago – via Twitter MarkBermanFox26

Mark Berman: Sources confirm the #Rockets have asked the NBA to rescind Chris Paul’s first technical he received in game one and asked the league to rescind the one Mike D’Antoni was hit with.

4 weeks ago – via Twitter NickFriedell

Nick Friedell: Steph, on if he thought it was part of the Rockets strategy to discuss the officiating after Game 1: “I think the reason that you asked that question is pretty self-explanatory.”

4 weeks ago – via Twitter NickFriedell

Nick Friedell: (1/2) Kerr on if complaining to refs is worse “I’m not sure it is worse I just think there’s more exposure There’s more media outlets There’s more technology every single play in a playoff game there’s so many different angles and those angles immediately are put on social media”

4 weeks ago – via Twitter NickFriedell

Nick Friedell: (2/2) Kerr (cont) “The fire burns a lot quicker. The brush fire starts and it’s out of control and here we are today, the whole story is about some missed calls. Again, like we didn’t get any missed calls? Like every missed call went their way? I mean, come on.”

4 weeks ago – via Twitter dmorey

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4 weeks ago – via Twitter NickFriedell

Nick Friedell: Kerr on narrative of series being on officials “It’s disappointing because focus should be on 2 teams who played extremely hard .. both teams just got after it and competed. But we just watched the tape upstairs, you don’t think there were 10 calls that we thought we got fouled?”

4 weeks ago – via Twitter anthonyVslater

Anthony Slater: Steve Kerr enters his presser, flops on a reporter and jokes it should be a foul. He then discusses the noise coming out of the Rockets camp at length. pic.twitter.com/KS0PC8DmvE

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Steve Kerr enters his presser, flops on a reporter and jokes it should be a foul. He then discusses the noise coming out of the Rockets camp at length. pic.twitter.com/KS0PC8DmvE

— Anthony Slater (@anthonyVslater) April 29, 2019

4 weeks ago – via Twitter Con_Chron

Connor Letourneau: Kerr said the Warriors need to complain less to the referees. “We need to do a better job walking that line,” Kerr said.

4 weeks ago – via Twitter MarkBermanFox26

Mark Berman: Mike D’Antoni says he’s over being upset about the game 1 officiating: “Yesterday I should have invited u guys.I had a great pity party.I was by myself.Nobody showed up but me..It’s part of the game.I felt sorry for myself.Nobody really helped me out.I got thru it & I’ll be fine” pic.twitter.com/EP5LCvlM0o

4 weeks ago – via Twitter espn_macmahon

Tim MacMahon: Chris Paul said he isn’t concerned about a potential suspension despite NBA determining that he “aggressively” approached and made contact with official. “Nah,” he said. “If we did [make contact], it was incidental.”

4 weeks ago – via Twitter Jonathan_Feigen

Jonathan Feigen: Chris Paul’s second technical foul will stand, but the Rockets have sought to have his first T and D’Antoni’s rescinded, source said. League still in its review. Rockets argued neither cursed or threatened.

4 weeks ago – via Twitter loganmmurdock

Logan Murdock: Rockets coach Mike D’Antoni was asked about the L2M report. D’Antoni’s response: “Hey you know what, yesterday, I shouldn’t have invited you all to my pity party… it was all myself. Nobody was invited but me.. pic.twitter.com/JcPijrZ63t

4 weeks ago – via Twitter anthonyVslater

Anthony Slater: Steph Curry’s response to Houston’s noise about the referees: “Sucks that that’s the narrative.” Said Warriors could find 10-15 missed calls on the other side and clip them together. pic.twitter.com/kQDjwn5dUy

4 weeks ago – via ESPN

The Houston Rockets believe officiating in last season’s Western Conference finals cost them an NBA championship, and in a report since sent to the league, tabulated the net result of 81 potential missed calls and non-calls in Game 7 of that series between Houston and the Golden State Warriors, according to the report and an accompanying memo, both of which have been obtained by ESPN. “Referees likely changed the eventual NBA champion,” says the memo, addressed to Byron Spruell, the NBA’s president of league operations. “There can no be no worse result for the NBA.”

4 weeks ago – via ESPN

The full report obtained by ESPN lists 81 total calls, non-calls and violations. It concludes that those 81 instances cost Houston a total of 18.6 points in that game. In its own reports, the league does not attach point values to missed calls and non-calls. “As we told the Rockets, we do not agree with their methodology,” Mike Bass, an NBA spokesman, told ESPN on Monday.

4 weeks ago – via Twitter MarkBermanFox26

Mark Berman: Chris Paul says he has spoken with the NBA about getting the second technical/auto ejection, didn’t realize he made contact with the ref, considered it “incidental,” not concerned about further repercussions pic.twitter.com/lAlK8w9bwp

4 weeks ago – via Twitter DrewShiller

Drew Shiller: According to the Last Two Minute Report: 1) Chris Paul didn’t foul Kevin Durant 2) Draymond Green didn’t foul James Harden 3) Steph Curry fouled Eric Gordon pic.twitter.com/xPT5r62vHS

4 weeks ago – via The Athletic

Rockets fuming about officiating

No, this was about the NBA’s most analytically minded organization deciding long ago that all the data in this heavy-hitter matchup proves their point: The Warriors, as they see it, are getting the kind of officiating edge that simply must be stopped. And Game 1 – which was refereed by Zarba, Josh Tiven and Courtney Kirkland – confirmed their fears that this playoff battle with the Warriors might be just as painful as the last when it comes to the officiating.

4 weeks ago – via The Athletic

By the Rockets’ internal count from their video crew, there were eight attempted 3-pointers that should have been fouls in Game 1 – good for 24 free throw attempts that would’ve certainly decided the game. There was insult added to injury on that front as well, with D’Antoni and Harden both saying officials told them at halftime they had missed foul calls on four Rockets 3-point attempts.

4 weeks ago – via The Athletic

According to sources with knowledge of the situation, the Rockets have been making a data-driven case with the NBA for quite some time that these Super Team Warriors are getting a major officiating advantage in these heavy-hitter matchups. And of all the specific examples that have been discussed with league officials, none has left them more suspect of the system than the 2018 Western Conference Finals. This series opener, more than anything, was salt being poured directly into that Rockets wound.

4 weeks ago – via The Athletic

And after the Rockets went through every line, tallying all the missed calls for each team and adding up the potential points that were lost along the way, it wasn’t pretty: The Rockets, according to the sources, had a double-digit point deficit in six of the seven games (and a small edge in Game 2). In all, sources say, they were harmed to the tune of 93 points

4 weeks ago – via The Athletic

“Call the game how it’s supposed to be called and that’s it,” Harden said. “And I’ll live with the results. … We all know what happened a few years back with Kawhi. That can change the entire series. Just call the game the way it’s supposed to be called and we’ll live with the results. It’s plain and simple.”

4 weeks ago – via ESPN

“To shoot a 3-and-1, get a tech, I mean, it’s tough,” Paul said. “But I gotta be smarter because that didn’t do nothing but hurt our team.”

4 weeks ago – via ESPN

Paul was ejected after receiving his second technical foul with 4.4 seconds remaining. He appeared to make contact with referee Josh Tiven. Asked about the incident, Paul said, “I ain’t seen it yet.” Team sources believe that any contact between Paul and Tiven was minimal and inadvertent and should not merit any discipline from the league office.

4 weeks ago – via Twitter JaredDudley619

Jared Dudley: I don’t like the flop but that’s a foul.. look where Livingston jump from and land, then look at his hand that contested the shot.. The other camera view shows it all

4 weeks ago – via Twitter

Rudy Gobert: My guys were not allowed to contest shots like that last week…or maybe i’m crazy and it’s just camera angles

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4 weeks ago – via Twitter Krisplashed

Kristian Winfield: Draymond Green on James Harden complaining about landing zone fouls: “I’ve been fouled by James on a James three-pointer before. I’m not tryna hear that.”

4 weeks ago – via Twitter Jonathan_Feigen

Jonathan Feigen: Eric Gordon on the calls the Rockets believed they should have gotten when the Warriors contested 3s: “All I’m going to say is we’ve been getting them all year. It should be no different now.”

4 weeks ago – via Twitter espn_macmahon

Tim MacMahon: Chris Paul, asked about contact with referee before he was ejected: “I haven’t seen it yet.”

4 weeks ago – via Twitter BenGolliver

Ben Golliver: Rockets’ James Harden on lack of fouls on Warriors sliding under three-point shots: “I just want a fair chance. We saw what happened with Kawhi [Leonard] a few years back. Call the game like it’s supposed to be called.”

4 weeks ago – via Twitter espn_macmahon

Tim MacMahon: Mike D’Antoni says refs admitted at halftime they missed fouls on Warriors closing out on James Harden. “They missed four of them. That’s 12 foul shots.”

4 weeks ago – via Twitter clutchfans

David Hardisty: D’Antoni: “We need to just suck it up and don’t worry about how they officiate and sit there and take it. I’m getting a little old for that, but that’s just how it goes. I try not to curse or completely be a jerk, but obviously it didn’t work. I don’t know. It’s beyond me.”

4 weeks ago – via Twitter dmorey

Daryl Morey: Been working on things since 2006 ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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2 minute report is going to be very interesting tomorrow. Will tell you so much about the management of the nba officiating group

— Mark Cuban (@mcuban) April 28, 2019

4 weeks ago – via Twitter MarkBermanFox26

Mark Berman: Chris Paul gets another technical with 4.4 seconds left and the automatic ejection

4 weeks ago – via Twitter mcuban

Mark Cuban: It’s on the @nba competition committee to get rid of the side to side foul. The defender has every right to the space. Offensive players are smart enough to take advantage of this. It’s not on the refs. It’s league stupidity

4 weeks ago – via Twitter BrianTRobb

Brian Robb: Budenholzer: “We didn’t get many calls on drives.”

4 weeks ago – via ESPN

Golden State Warriors coach Steve Kerr publicly lobbied Saturday for the NBA office to reconsider its procedure for suspending players for technical fouls accumulated in the playoffs, a suggestion he has previously made behind the scenes in the offseason.

4 weeks ago – via ESPN

“Well, if we go to Finals, I think Draymond (Green) and Kevin (Durant) are each on pace for about 42 technicals and six suspensions, so hopefully we can withstand that,” Kerr said, cracking a smile before becoming serious. “I will never understand the rule that everybody falls under the exact same category, in terms of whether you lose in four games in the first round or you play 25 games and you go to the Finals, that it’s the same technical fouls points that lead to a suspension. It seems strange.”

4 weeks ago – via ESPN

Kerr said he isn’t certain how the league should handle suspensions for technical during the playoffs, but he hopes the league office will consider a change. “I don’t know. That’s a good question,” Kerr said when asked how he would change the policy. “Series by series or maybe every two series. Just the way it is now doesn’t make a ton of sense. I’d like to see it revisited, but that’s coming from a guy whose team gets a lot of technical fouls and plays deep in the playoffs. So I’m a little biased.”

4 weeks ago – via San Antonio Express-News

Denver coach Mike Malone said the league agreed with the Nuggets’ claim that Poeltl’s play has been questionable, although Malone said he didn’t know why it hasn’t resulted in closer scrutiny from game officials. “I think there have been some illegal screens that have been missed, and the response from the league has been that we’re right,” Malone said after Thursday after the Spurs’ 120-103 win in Game 6. “But for some reason, they don’t catch them during the game. Obviously, Jamal got taken out on that play. I don’t know if it was dirty or not. I don’t think Jakob Poeltl is a dirty player, I really don’t, but I have to watch the film to see how that happened and how Jamal went down with that injury.”

1 month ago – via Denver Post

The Spurs eventually pulled away, winning 120-103, to force a winner-take-all Game 7 on Saturday, but Nuggets coach Michael Malone still had questions about the play. “I think there have been some illegal screens that have been missed, and the response from the league (after the Nuggets submitted the plays for review) has been that we’re right,” Malone said. “But for some reason, they don’t catch them during the game. Obviously Jamal got taken out on that play. I don’t know if it was dirty or not.”

1 month ago – via Denver Post

“I think I am setting legal screens,” Poeltl said afterward. “If I’m not, somebody is going to let me know about it. I’m not really worried about it.”

1 month ago – via ESPN

Kerr, asked about a sequence in which Draymond Green was assessed a technical foul in Wednesday night’s 129-121 loss, said Beverley had duped the referee into a poor call. “I didn’t think it was a good call,” Kerr said. “You know Beverley’s going to flop, and Draymond turned; it looked like Tyson punched him in the face.”

1 month ago – via ESPN

Kerr said he thought Green had been clapping and trying and get the Oracle Arena crowd more into the game when he was called for the technical. “Beverley’s good at that,” Kerr said. “His head literally snaps back. I worry he’s going to get whiplash on some of these flops. But he’s good at it. And the refs, they’re often times partial to the little guy whose down there.”

1 month ago – via Twitter NYPost_Lewis

Brian Lewis: Sean Marks on bogarting into refs locker room after Game 4: “I don’t condone breaking league rules. I’ve apologized to the powers that be on that one. But its about standing up for your team and your players, and sending a message at what deemed to be the right time.” #Nets #NBA

1 month ago – via ESPN

I’ve talked to people across the league about this issue. Players, coaches, referees, union leadership and the league office. Everyone has their position and their theory. I’ve been told the experience level of the referees has dwindled with a number of veteran retirements or reassignments, and that younger officials have thinner skin and won’t allow a healthy dialogue. And a couple more of the top officials are planning retirement or transfers after this season, by the way.

1 month ago – via ESPN

I’ve been told there are more replays and video sharing, and so when referees do make mistakes, the mistakes are magnified. Just as the last-two-minute reports, aka L2Ms, only push officials’ mistakes into a fresh news cycle when nothing can be done about them. And it hurts officials’ reputations. I’ve been told short memories cause issues. For example, the Warriors (and plenty of fans) flipped out during that game in Minnesota because Kevin Durant was called for wrapping up Karl-Anthony Towns as he went to the basket in the final second. Last weekend, the Nets’ Jarrett Allen was wrapped up by the Sixers’ Tobias Harris and it wasn’t called, a mistake acknowledged by the league. The howling was equal for both — everyone wants it both ways.

1 month ago – via Twitter KyleNeubeck

Kyle Neubeck: Brown discussing the chatter about officiating throughout this series and what they’re expecting tonight as a result: “The noise surrounding this series is head scratching to me.”

1 month ago – via Twitter TomMoorePhilly

Tom Moore: #Sixers coach Brett Brown: ‘There is no mystery to me about how the game is going to be reffed or played.’

1 month ago – via Twitter MarkG_Medina

Mark Medina: Steph Curry on dealing with the foul trouble. He said he thinks the officiating has been consistent, and hasn’t factored into his foul trouble pic.twitter.com/WDqUwuzPaw

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1 month ago – via Twitter MarkG_Medina

Mark Medina: Steve Kerr: “I think the officiating has been good.” pic.twitter.com/na84cmSMwU

1 month ago – via Twitter BenGolliver

Ben Golliver: Pistons’ Blake Griffin on FT disparity in Game 4 loss to Bucks: “That was the story. Giannis shooting 8 more free throws than our entire team is not going to win a game like that. Some of that is on us but some of that is a little out of our control. That messed up the flow.”

1 month ago – via Twitter BenGolliver

Ben Golliver: Pistons’ Blake Griffin on FT disparity in Game 4 loss to Bucks: “That was the story. Giannis shooting 8 more free throws than our entire team is not going to win a game like that. Some of that is on us but some of that is a little out of our control. That messed up the flow.”

1 month ago – via Twitter

Joseph Tsai: My partners and I have spoken and the entire Nets ownership group support our GM Sean Marks for protesting the wrong calls and missed calls. NBA rules are rules and we respect that, but our players and fans expect things to be fair.

1 month ago – via ESPN

“So the big point of emphasis this year was the wrapping, wrapping the player when he rolls to the rim,” Nets coach Kenny Atkinson said after Saturday’s game. “Judge for yourself if you watch the clip, but there was a clear wrap by Tobias Harris on the roll. “I am just disappointed. That was a point of emphasis on day one at the coaches’ meetings — that they were going to emphasize that at the beginning of the game, the end of the game and all season. So how that all of a sudden doesn’t become a foul on the wrap, I don’t understand that.”

1 month ago – via Twitter

Joe Tsai: My partners and I have spoken and the entire Nets ownership group support our GM Sean Marks for protesting the wrong calls and missed calls. NBA rules are rules and we respect that, but our players and fans expect things to be fair.

1 month ago – via Twitter NotoriousOHM

Ohm Youngmisuk: The NBA announced it fined DeMar DeRozan $25,000 “for recklessly throwing the basketball toward a game official.” DeRozan was ejected after being handed two quick technical fouls for the fling at official Scott Foster. espn.com/espn/now?nowId…

1 month ago – via Twitter wojespn

Adrian Wojnarowski: Sources: Nets and GM Sean Marks were livid over belief Embiid’s flagrant 1 fouls in Games 2/4 should’ve been deemed a 2. More than message to league with ref challenge, Marks intended to message his team on how franchise is determined to support way they’re competing in series.

1 month ago – via Twitter ShamsCharania

Shams Charania: Nets GM Sean Marks has been suspended one game and fined $25,000 by NBA for entering officiating staff’s locker room after Saturday’s game.

1 month ago – via Twitter GregLogan1

Greg Logan: Here’s a nugget for all my #Nets followers, especially newbies: Told one #Nets player that #KennyAtkinson departed from norm to rip refs over non-call at end on #JarretAllen drive. He basically said it will keep happening until refs buy into fact that #Nets are good. Then change.

1 month ago – via Twitter GregLogan1

Greg Logan: My unnamed #Nets player said #NBA is a business, and implied refs are aware of which teams they want to succeed. So, teams like #Nets trying to establish themselves are facing uphill climb. But let’s say they sign a premium FA. Watch how quickly it turns.

1 month ago – via ESPN

With the Spurs down 110-92, DeRozan drove to the hoop and was called for a charge on Nuggets guard Gary Harris. DeRozan then slung the ball high and over toward Foster, who was standing about 30 feet away along the right sideline. DeRozan was assessed two technical fouls by official Rodney Mott and ejected from the game. Asked to explain what led to his ejection, DeRozan said, “Frustration. I thought it was a bad call. Combination of both.”

1 month ago – via Twitter HarrisonWind

Harrison Wind: DeMar DeRozan just got tossed, threw the ball at the ref after that last foul call. All kinds of frustration for San Antonio right now.

1 month ago – via Twitter msinger

Michael Singer: Gregg Popovich: “I continued to coach the game. … I didn’t say anything to DeMar.”

1 month ago – via Twitter MikeVorkunov

Mike Vorkunov: Did Spencer Dinwiddie think Jarrett Allen was fouled on the Nets’ 2nd-to-last possession? Dinwiddie: “Come on y’all. Y’all trying to get me fined $25,000, man. What did you think happened?”

1 month ago – via Twitter DerekBodnerNBA

Derek Bodner: Jimmy Butler on the altercation with Jared Dudley: “I just don’t think you should run up on anybody,” Embiid interrupts him to add “especially because the block was all ball.”

1 month ago – via Twitter GregLogan1

Greg Logan: Kenny Atkinson said no-call on Allen turnover at the end “was a clear wrap, which was a point of emphasis this year” for officials to call. Rare criticism of refs by Kenny who had no comment on ejections b

1 month ago – via Twitter TimBontemps

Tim Bontemps: Jayson Tatum gets t’d up after complaining about not getting a call (though looked like he shouldn’t have). Kyrie Irving followed Tatum all the way across the court to talk to him and calm him down.

1 month ago – via Twitter Eric__Smith

Eric Smith: Both Kyle and Kawhi go over and talk to Tony brothers before leaving the floor.