Bingo!

Bottom six? Bevo just wrote his column about the refs and league forcing Lisch out of the NBL...

The difference between bevo and the rest of the clubs doing the same thing is that bevo doesnt use it as a way to excuse the way his team performs.

He didnt say "lisch played shit that game because players were roughhousing him, so tell them to cut it out"

my gripe is with the teams who complain to avoid the real issue behind the loss or the USF or the whatever theyre complaining about

"The difference between bevo and the rest of the clubs doing the same thing is that bevo doesnt use it as a way to excuse the way his team performs."

That's cause he knows his team are the worst offenders when it comes to consistently breaking the rules. Yet he STILL complained about it affecting one of his players future with the club.

Personally when so many teams are complaining of the way the ref's are calling then perhaps its not time to look at the teams but at the actual referee's poor interpretation and complete lack of consistency not to mention their amazing bias calls.

skud, thats what is annoying me the most.

Why is it always on the umpires heads? Last night Gong v Adelaide, umps called that the ball hit the rim. One team will argue it did, one will argue it didnt. One team is always going to scream read and blue that they were hard done by.

I feel sorry for the umpires. Always coping the shit from frustrated fans when every call doesnt go their way.

anon, have you actually watched the replay of that "shot clock violation"? I was at the game, had a worse angle (one ref was right under the hoop) and it was clear as day. The replays on the night showed it clearly hit the rim, scorers bench told refs it also hit the rim, yet they ignored it and called for a shot clock violation.

Fans will get over judgment/opinion calls like fouls. But calls like shot clock, out of bounds, travels etc, calls where it's not perception or opinion based but fact based and they get the fact based calls wrong time and time again, that's where fans and players get really frustrated.

I want to watch baskeball, not thuggery, so yes, it comes back to the officials calling the game as the rules are writtten and the game is intended to be called [ie, within the spirit of teh game and the rules]; so we have a contest of skills. Then, the team that is more skilfull, &/or stronger, quicker, etc, will [usually] win.

I'm not on about bias, and I know refs have to make subjective calls when it comes to block/charge, for example. I am, however, about them calling fouls and infringements when they are there, so we get a fair contest of basketball. And that goes whether the team is top or bottom.

I think you'll find that the refs do better at their job than most players do at theirs.

If the home team score bench thought the ball hit the ring, they would have hit reset. They are more likely to reset it then the refs, therefore it didn't look like it hit.

As for the ref under the basket not their job to look up there as they should have been looking at the players, which he was. You never make a decision about the ball and the ring from the baseline.

Anonymous 406428. You obviously have no idea about the officials responsibilities. The Lead official is NOT to look at the basket and therefore has no responsibility to intervene in that call. Read the FIBA Referees Mechanics Manual and maybe you'll understand. http://www.fiba.com/downloads/Rules/2010/TwoPersonOfficiating2010.pdf