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Tuesday, June 8, 2010

Will Anyone Ever Win an NBA Championship..Ever?


Matt---Warwick, Rhode Island


It sounds like a stupid question, but I'm starting to feel like the Refs have stripped the NBA of the one thing that matters: legitimate championships.


How many more games have to go by before the league cuts this shit out? After almost every single game this postseason I've heard fans from both sides complaining about the refs. All I can read about following Game 2 was how the Lakers lost because of the refs. Is that what's going to happen when the Celtics win the championship? Is it going to be written off as a fixed title? How about if the Lakers win? We have plenty of games to play, so how will the refs look to thwart the legitimacy of the next 3-5 meetings? And will we have to deal with this seemingly overbearing horribleness for many seasons to come?


Let me say that I don't think the refs blew that game for the Lakers. I felt like they were bad overall in Game 2 and that the Celtics outplayed LA. But if the Celtics are going to win, I want them to WIN. I don't want the refs to help them cheat. And I don't think they will, because it makes for a better story to hear that LA came back to the Finals and took down their rivals in a re-match of 2007, earning them back to back titles. So in the end, I think the Celtics are REALLY going to have to earn this one. Could be the other way around, who knows for sure. Just a shame that either team is going to have the entire officiating crew playing against them.

8 comments:

  1. can this blog talk about basketball without talking about the refs... you say it a boston sports blog... and i expect a huge boston bias, but write about the players, the game... every basketball post isn't even about the celtics... its just about the refs

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  2. Are the refs not part of the game? When a player has a bad game, we can criticize them. When refs have bad games, should we brush it off and say it didn't affect the game when it completely did? And actually the posts are about the Celtics, for the record. In fact, the last time we blogged about the Celtics before this post was about Rondo, and had nothing to do with the refs.

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  3. You've written 12 medium-long nba finals posts. Of those 12, 6 have been referee-centric... I kno you'll just say oh the refs are a huge part of the game, but you dont have to devote a post a day to how much you hate the refs... we get it

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  4. The purpose of a blog isn't the same as a newspaper. If we sit here and report what happened, that's no use to anyone because everyone already saw that. Blogs are opinionated. That is a fact. And it's doing its job if you're reading it. If you want to take the referees' side, fine... don't read our NBA posts, because it's pretty clear we at Ultimate Boston think NBA referees are a big problem right now. I have a feeling we aren't the only ones in the country who feel that way, either (search Google).

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  5. ...this is shane btw... i just think you consistently talk about the same ref stuff without bringing anything new to the table... 6 posts about refs... only two games... so you've been talking about each games refs for three posts... its just redudant... i love you drob just some constructive critisism =P

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  6. Haha I love you too Shane... It is a little redundant I suppose but for the record this blog wasn't written by me, so I've actually only written 5 of them. This one was by Matt as indicated at the bottom. But the constructive criticism is appreciated haha luckily the season is almost over and referee talk will soon be gone.

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  7. idk i think the better team always wins... but there is def a ref problem with them calling wayyyyy too many fouls... but i dont see a real bias for one team or another

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  8. haha creative name... but yeah definitely way too many fouls, and maybe i see i bias because i want to see one, goes back to how people see what they want to see, but either way yes way too many fouls. supposedly the ref crew for game 3 is generally less whistle-happy according to sportscenter. so we'll see

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