NBA Game Flow Disrupted by Excessive Referee Reviews

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00:00But I thought the calls in the game were horrific.

00:04And not only that, I thought that the players, you know,

00:08with all this twirling after every single call, like every call is wrong.

00:12I never commit a foul.

00:14I've never touched anyone.

00:15I never did anything.

00:17I mean, watching the game is torture with the calls.

00:20I really, I think it's torture.

00:23I think it's a modern NBA player thing.

00:28You see Oklahoma City do it, Minnesota do it, the Knick players do it,

00:34the Pacer players do it.

00:36They all want and won after.

00:39Like, even if they score, Carl Anthony Towns is the worst.

00:43Like, this guy scores, and even if he's not touched,

00:46he looks at the ref after like, you know what I mean?

00:48Where's my bonus?

00:49Where's my bonus?

00:51Every play, everybody does it.

00:53SGA actually does it, right?

00:55You know, it's something that I've always liked about Kawhi Leonard, Scott.

00:58He doesn't talk to the refs.

01:00Like, he's like the only player in the NBA.

01:02He does not talk to the refs.

01:04He doesn't ask for calls.

01:05He doesn't complain for calls.

01:07He doesn't, like, shrug for calls.

01:08You think they should get rid of it?

01:09The constant checking, the replay, and it should be like a ref decision,

01:15not a challenge, but a new system.

01:18This isn't working where every whistle, they do this.

01:22I like, bro.

01:23I've seen Steve Kerr, Traymond Green, doing this to Steve Kerr,

01:27and Kerr just looks at him and looks the other way.

01:30He's like, bro, I'm not challenging something just because you want me to.

01:34Right?

01:34Like you said, like, imagine if you listened to the players every time.

01:37You'd never have any challenges.

01:39You'd be out of challenges four minutes into the game.

01:42You'd be like, I'm out of challenges, dumbass,

01:44because you complained earlier.

01:45They think they need a new system like it's not working.

01:49No, you know, I don't listen.

01:51It takes too long.

01:52I never have a problem with the replay.

01:54I never have a problem with getting it right.

01:56Right?

01:56I want to get the calls right.

01:58But it turns into a parade of reviews, Scott,

02:02and it does kill the flow of the game.

02:04And for the love of God, you and I can tell what the call is

02:07within, like, two seconds watching it, a replay,

02:10yet they stretch it out for two, three minutes.

02:12It kills the flow.

02:14How about how late they call fouls?

02:16Like, the guy will have a rebound, he's running the other way,

02:18and they blow the whistle.

02:19The thing is, though, the series with the Knicks and Pacers

02:22has been different than the Oklahoma City-Minnesota series.

02:27The Oklahoma-Minnesota series, they're letting them kill each other.

02:30Like, they are literally, like, murdering each other out there,

02:33and they're not calling it.

02:36The Knicks and Pacers, I don't know if they're scared

02:38that it's going to blow into something,

02:40and they want to police it.

02:44I don't know, like, you know, the method to the madness here.

02:47I mean, if anything, I don't think there's any conspiracy

02:49or anything like that.

02:51I mean, if anything, Scott, the Pacers,

02:53the NBA doesn't want the Pacers in the finals.

02:55They would much rather have the New York Knicks in the finals.

03:00They're going to get them.

03:02The officiating is the officiating in the NBA.

03:04It is what it is.

03:05Like you said earlier, a couple minutes ago, and it's true.

03:07It doesn't change, like, the thing in the NBA.

03:09You know what you're getting.

03:11Like, that's the thing with, like, NBA refs.

03:12You know, okay, Scott Foster, we're getting this.

03:14He's going to over-police everything.

03:16He's going to want to be involved in everything.

03:18Last night, Oklahoma City and Minnesota,

03:20I don't even know who the ref was,

03:21and that's probably a good thing, right?

03:23It's like the best umpire.

03:24You don't know their names, right?

03:26Like, last night, the refs were like, no, man.

03:28Like, whatever.

03:28You guys are beating each other up.

03:29That's basketball.

03:30Let it play on.

03:32So each series has been different.

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