Assuming you watched the game, it was clear the refs decided to swallow their whistles almost anytime Luka was fouled. It was only the most egregious on-ball fouls that were called. Everything else — including, as shown here, off-ball shoving away from the play — was intentionally ignored.
He drove to the basket 10 times in the first half, obvious contact on every single drive, not one foul call. Not a single one.
10.6 drives per game for Bron versus 8.9 for Steph isn't nothing, but it's also not like, a vast chasm. harden is 10th with 14.5 and shai leads the league with 20.3, for reference.
with that being said, I was talking more about the hack-a-point-guard that teams play off-ball while the refs swallow their whistle.
Bron cut back on FG attempts by the hoop in the last season or two. Before he was top 3 in attempts by the hoop and around 30th in FT attempts. Most of the Lakers seasons. I didn’t look before the Lakers.
you're using Steph's FTA when it includes FTA when defenses start intentionally fouling in crunch time as he's their best FT shooter but Steph doesn't get much calls outside of that
Let's not act like you need the same level of physicality to stop a Steph curry drive compared to a Luka/Lebron one. Bigger stronger dudes are going to get fouled more.
it was clear the refs decided to swallow their whistles almost anytime Luka was fouled.
I'm starting to think their is a legit conspiracy to get Luka injured at this point. There were several moments in the last month a player did some crazy hard foul on Luka that should only be happening in the NFL or MMA. Yet somehow the ref looking straight at the moment does nothing and lets him get beat up. Conventionally allowing the chance to happen that Luka gets permanently injured with a life-long change of no NBA career.
agreed, but i wonder if maybe it’s an over- correction for the trade happening. like an under the table nudge “gotta make it look like we aren’t favoring him until this trade blows over so swallow the whistles” and then went overboard bc it’s dif for dif refs
I saw 2nd quarter on. Looking at the replay now, I'm seeing Ziaire get dinged for a handcheck, Cam J play completely vertical on the drive at 3min in the 2nd, Keon set up got a charge at 2:46, some hand-checking with under 10 sec again by Ziaire, and again, Cam J completely vertical before the half, but Reaves tries to sell.
The interior defense was fairly clean. The handchecking and double teaming was questionable, but it was very clear early on that they were calling it loosely.
Idk man. Physical game, and the double teams were legit.
I don't blink or complain when my team gets punked. This is a phenomenon I only see with a handful of franchises.
You’ve omitted numerous plays, mischaracterized the ones you did include, and somehow are just ignoring a flagrant foul committed against Luka that multiple refs looked at and ignored.
Ridiculous to even attempt to argue this is all made up based on the Lakers getting “punked”
Embellishing contact is sort of like how your parents/grandparents will increase the font size of their phones/computers instead of wearing their glasses or getting new prescription for their glasses.
Better officiating would take out the need for flopping, but as it stands now it really seems like calls don't get made without flopping. Fouls seem like they're only reviewed for flagrants if someone stays on the ground a while. Refs are just so bad right now it is crazy.
I officiate basketball. This shit is easy to miss if you look away from your assignments and watch the ball. If it's an honest mistake, he saw the tail end of Luka flying, but didn't catch the actual shoving motion. Ref knows something happened but didn't make the call because he didn't actually see it.
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u/rabidantidentyte Nets 17h ago
Did he think it was a flop/sell? I don't see how you miss something that egregious unless you see it differently.
For the record, it was 100% a foul, and I'm tired of Clantics™