Comment on NBA Playoffs: West Conf. Finals - May 28, 2026

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• scytale@piefed.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Forgot to comment here again because I was glued to the TV lol. End of the 3rd now. Look at how the game goes when it’s reffed more or less fairly.

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  • RandAlThor@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    It isn’t the reffing dude. That’s mass hysteria blinding people on social media. You can’t tell me those calls weren’t fouls. You can’t tell me performance by Wemby Fox Castle and Harper were good enough to win game 5. Every time Spurs lose lack of performance from key players have been glaring.

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    • scytale@piefed.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Yes obviously they played well. But c’mon man, did you see any glaring wrong calls in this game? Now compare that to the last one where they were so blatant. Like game 1, this game was called evenly and the flow wasn’t interrupted with ticky tack calls.

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      • RandAlThor@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        They were fouls man. I’m seeing fouls not called in last night’s game. Refs called it tighter in game 5. Did you see how Spurs were trucking SGA last night and only one got called? It’s deliberate. Spurs have always been physical and dirty from Pop’s days. Wemby told the subs to beat them up when they went in, in game 5. There’s a real hysteria going on in social media which the TV networks are jumping on. I dislike both teams because they will dominate the league the next 10 years and people are only seeing the one side of the coin. Spurs are dominant, and they are dirtier.

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      • mill_city@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        The thing people don’t seem to understand about the way the NBA has refused to penalize that entire team of floppers, is that when the officiating crew decides to reward that unbecoming behavior, it changes the way the game is played. Now you have a team that can freely attack the hoop and the other team feels obligated to give them space to do so out of fear that they’ll foul out if they don’t. It’s a completely different ballgame at that point, and the product is completely unwatchable. I will never understand why the NBA doesn’t just enforce the actual rules that they still have on the books about this. It was a problem fifteen years ago when they first started fining players, and there is no question about the fact that it’s a much larger problem now that all could have been avoided with even moderate enforcement of the actual rules.

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