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Message: <blockquote data-quote="loki44" data-source="post: 2350135" data-attributes="member: 16276">Since we're throwing out our balling credentials, I too played basketball throughout high school.  I started for 4 years at a Chicago city public school.  It's a very competitive league to say the least.  I ran track in college so I never took basketball farther (not that I could've  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> )  I've helped coach a youth team in the Atlanta Police Athletic League for about 7 years now.  I NEVER complain about officiating.  It totally sends kids the wrong message.Sigil, this has to be the most lawful post I've ever read!  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> (refreshing actually)   Where do you ref, Shangri-la?  (Oh yeah, you're from Cali)  Requiring absolutely no contact is just not realistic IMHO.  The NBA court is a relatively small, finite space in which ten freakishly built men perform at amazing levels of speed, agility and overall athleticism.  I can't even imagine a game with no physical contact.  Refs are human, not robots, so they will interpret rules in different ways.  Players SHOULD have to adjust their game based on how it's being called.  I have no problem with that at all.  It makes the game more interesting.  I don't even think the debate over how fouls are called, or not, in the NBA is the biggest problem with rules interpretation.  A foul, in essence, is a judgement call.  Sometimes I even wish the NBA had a "play on" rule like soccer.  How about enforcing things like 3-seconds, travelling, palming, etc...?  Okay, having said that, my beef with people complaining about refs has nothing to do with how they interpret/enforce the rules as written, or not.  As far as I'm concerned the actual rules are open to debate and interpretation by individual refs despite the fact that they appear to be clearly written and defined.  My beef with people complaining about refs is when the claim is made that they favored one team over another because of $, or some sort of unspoken mandate from the NBA head offices (okay, since I've moved to Atlanta and become a fan of Georgia Tech I've been known to complain about the refs favoring Duke in one way or another, but the NCAA is another debate).  That's just crap IMHO.  The other thing that bugs me is when people put forth that the NBA is somehow debased in it's current state because games are being called, or not, in a way that allows for "ugliness" on defense.  Gimme a break!  When George Mikan passed away recently all the anecdotal interviews I saw/heard from old-timers who knew him and his game glorified his "physical game" (translate: brutality).  Physicality in the NBA is nothing new.  What I can't stand are guys who hearken back to some "glory day" in the annals of basketball who assert that today's game is less fundamentally sound or just isn't the same game.  B.S.  Today's game is better.  The athletes are better.  The coaches are better.  The teams are better.  And it all gets better every year.Apart from all that, didn't think it'd go this far, but the Spurs will win tomorrow.</blockquote>

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