Hoops

The standard of refereeing in this league

Serious question: can anyone name any league in all of Australia where the majority of followers don't seem to think the officiating is a disgrace.

Cause I've yet to find one.

So either Australians are constitutionally incapable of officiating well, or else there's something in the culture that makes the average Australian spectator completely stupid when it comes to assessing it.

I acknowledge that officials, and fans, are human.

I also know that the rules of the sport are there for a reason - to ensure a fair contest between teams/players operating from the bases, so the less interpretation the better. Simply calling the game according to the written rules is hard enough.

Irrespective of which teams win and which teams lose, the refereeing is an issue. Objectively the standard is not good, and that impacts on the SPORT, even if it's 'the same for both teams'.

Going back to two on-court officials per game would be start. Would concentrate the available talent [i.e., we and the players would see more of the better refs and less of the poorer ones], change the on-court mechanics so they focus more on what is happening on the court and less on whether they are in the right 'sector' or whatever it is they call them, and make sure there isn't a 'spare' ref conveniently standing by the team bench where he or she can get into a nice conversation with the coach and lose focus on the game.

While we're at it, what is it with coaches putting their arms around players and coaches, and vice versa? Maybe says they want to be friends rather than arbitrators responsible for managing the game and ensuring a fair contest based on skill and ability.

All that said ...
- travels are important [see my earlier comment about operating from a standard base then think about trying to (legally) guard someone who changes pivot feet as s/he wishes]
- the standard of refereeing would improve quite considerably if coaches focussed on getting the ball handler/cutter taking his/her defender onto a screen so the poor player setting the screen doesn't feel the need to 'chase' the defender to get a 'pick' rather than a run past.

"the umps should be able to use the replays like they do in the NBA"
They can.


"I thought if it was a flop it was a straight tech?"
"It was at the start of the season"
You're both wrong. It's never been an immediate automatic tech for flopping. Warnings are given unless the flop is particularly blatant, pretty much exactly the same as anything else that can be penalised with a technical.

If it's that bad, and you guys are that knowledgeable....how about you get out there and start lifting the quality of reffing in this great nation of ours?

No?

OK - continue to bitch about it on an Internet forum....that should fix it.

The standard of refereeing is terrible.

This isn't just based on the 36ers result today, or Wildcat home games which are shrugged off as biased opinions: virtually every televised game has left me frustrated.

With regards to NBA referees: at least they are able to effectively implement a league-wide strategy ('superstar calls', advantage to the offense etc)... something our officials (Mal Cooper included) are seemingly incapable of achieving.

reffing was generally ok today. didn't notice anything too unfair.

think its a case of when the chips are down in periods like today, they get the blame.

sometimes its weird reffing but overall, the reffed ok. otherwise, kings got a raw deal in the first half

KingJames compare Aylen's salary and the amount of evaluation that he receives from the NBL compared to what NBA refs receive. The same thing applies for the players too. The NBA is also called completely different to all other leagues in the world too. If the NBL had the same budget as the NBA did for refs imagine how good the refs would be.

It's terrible. Taipans won by 9 today so I'm happy but the refereeing was still ordinary. I'm not so upset with the 50/50 calls, it's the fundamental basics that they miss that really annoys me. That and the lack of consistency within games and across the league. They might as well go back to two refs and save a few dollars if the league is happy with second-rate refereeing.

Strange that he refs in the Olympics and the NBL fans think he can't ref. I guess that makes all the other Olympic refs shit too.

"Easy to blame the refs when you score 36 points in the 2nd Quarter and only 34 points for the next 2 quarters "

Don't tell one of the best referees in the world that reff'd today, he doesn't know what he is doing. 3 x's Olympic referee and reff'd the Olympic gold medal not long ago.
Easy to blame the refs when you score 36 points in the 2nd Quarter and only 34 points for the next 2 quarters. Refs fault obviously.

So your team lost this weekend?