Game 5 was not the turning point

[Joe Mama]

This is an absolute issue with this series. HOW Bowen did not foul out in ANY game is beyond ludicris. These refs were not on top of things and you have to wonder what that reason is. During the season we get calls. Then hardly any?

He didn't even come close to fouling out. In one of the close games we lost he had only one foul until the very end of the game. I think he ended up with 2.

Joe

 

[jbeecham]

By clean, I mean cleaning the game up in general. Remember the rediculous tech rules earlier in the year. Those went over well, right?

The problem with the crazy technicals is simple.....once again the NBA is punishing the reaction of the players rather than the poor officiating that caused the reaction. 95% of those stupid techs were called after blatantly missed or bad calls that caused player to have natural reactions. Stern is a moron who doesn't address the root of the problem, he just tries to make the players into unemotional robots.

 

[Arctic]

The problem with the crazy technicals is simple.....once again the NBA is punishing the reaction of the players rather than the poor officiating that caused the reaction. 95% of those stupid techs were called after blatantly missed or bad calls that caused player to have natural reactions. Stern is a moron who doesn't address the root of the problem, he just tries to make the players into unemotional robots.

Well, he learned his lesson in that particular case.

 

[jibikao]

The problem with the crazy technicals is simple.....once again the NBA is punishing the reaction of the players rather than the poor officiating that caused the reaction. 95% of those stupid techs were called after blatantly missed or bad calls that caused player to have natural reactions. Stern is a moron who doesn't address the root of the problem, he just tries to make the players into unemotional robots.

My thoughts exactly. The "root" of the problem is Horry did a very unnecessary dirty thing. It was only about 20s left and he could easily foul Nash by grabbing him instead of body checking him into the air. That was dirty and un-called for.

This ruling does NOTHING but giving the other teams a idea/trick to play with. Just ask a lowbie player to seriously foul a star player and test if other teams react. If they don't, big deal. Just suspend the lowbie guy. If they do, they are REWARDED.

The only real fair judgment is to suspend Horry one game (he was suspended for the elbow he gave to Bell) and fine Amare and Diaw for leaving the bench but not really starting a fight. Suspending them in the playoffs is just so stupid. The ONLY people that agree to this rule-is-rule BS are either Suns haters or that it did not happen to their teams. Don't give me BS that Spurs fan won't complain if James Jones actually started a fight and then Duncan walked out and got suspended. Why did Duncan walk out in the first place? Funny Duncan's intention wasn't judged and Amare/Diaw's were.