I dunno, a lot of the calls that they miss seem a little obvious from the high camera angle. If it was that hard to accurately call a game, but you can get a better veiw of certain things from above, why don't they institute a "booth" ref ala football? Same replay rules, you get 3 chanlenges or whatever and if you lose one you lose a timeout. Booth automatically reviews anything in the last 3 minutes of the game. If they truly want accuracy, that seems like the way to go.

They have video reviews for black and white calls like shot clock violations. I dont see how the other stuff can be reviewed. something like a contact foul is a judgment call. There's no concrete guideline on how much contact is a foul. Its the same in football. Pass interference and holding etc arent reviewable. Only stuff like down by contact, fumbles, ball spots, in/out of bounds are.

I figured you implied that since the NBA refs were the worst refs of any sport, that meant they were inconsistent and inaccurate.

The NBA wants accuracy, but not if it interferes with the smooth, quick pace that people will enjoy. Personally, I don't care too much about accuracy. I agree with hard fouls when needed, but I think every technical should also be a personal foul and every flagrant foul should be two fouls. I think fouling is important to put a bad FT shooter on the line when he's about to make a layup(although I think fouling off the ball[Hack-a-Shaq] should be an intentional foul and get 2 shots and the ball). And I've seen the Warriors been robbed a few times in important situations with the refs, but I've seen them get advantages there too.

I get a better view than every ref with my recliner and TIVO when I rewind the four camera angles that TNT/ESPN provide. :lol But, there is no way I want to see the game slowed down any more with a challenge system. Basketball has a definite flow to the game that would be greatly hindered by this idea.

They don't have a challenge rule for holding, tripping, face-masking, punching in the NFL do they? At least last I checked they don't...who knows what the owners voted on this week...maybe hitting receivers over the middle is illegal.

I guess I'm on the other side of this because I think NBA refs probably are better than any others because they have to constantly run up and down the court and catch everything that is going on which is really really difficult. I have no idea how they do it.

Although the referees for soccer outside of the US are probably the bravest without question.

Yeah Hawks win. Everytime they drive the lane and miss it's a foul. Kind of like how every time a receiver for the Colts doesn't catch a pass, it's pass interference.

Plus the celtics aparantly don't know how to shoot on the road in the 4th. Looks like we lose in the semi's to Detroit. /season.

nice shot Joe Johnson.

Mike Bibby needs to stop shooting the ball.

gogogogo

Yeah James! Way to do it.

I predict we dribble out the clock and then Allen misses a 3 and we go to game 7.

Well, I was almost right, Allen of course bricked the 3 but we left 15 seconds on the clock or something.

Who wants to bet on game 7?