> "The 14,000 people come here to see the stars play"

> Proceeds to name Pineau.

To be fair to Mitchell he also mentioned Plumlee when he talked about fouls taking players out of the game.

Pineau moves on every screen, has all season, grabs and holds, the refs catching up with him so coach whinges. While I thought the refs were bad in both game last night, overall the season it all pans out. Players make mistakes, stats people make mistakes, coaches make mistakes, it's the nature of sport.

I think the point is that the games are being over officiated and it's hard to disagree with that assertion

Soft calls that have little impact on the game

Ffs lv you can't take a shooters landing space and he did. I thought Mitchells presser was excellent, Will Weaver could learn alot. He made it clear the way the game was called ruined the spectacle for the fans, it did. He cited dane as a young guy breaking out and plumlee as a major draw,both getting taken out of the game, it was extremely diplomatic and blunt.

I went to the game to watch the refs! Got more than my moneys worth. Keep it up green men

dear playmaker - there should only be a foul called if there is a disadvantage created. many of those "fouls" there was no disadvantage, no effect on the play or the game at all.

how about the holding call on the screen - where the shot was counted. if that was in the last minute and the losing team did the same exact foul, the refs would have gone to the bench and called an usf.

totally over reffed.

The refs should be fined $100 each time they go to a video replay, because basically they missed the call and had to check.

Oh good, another discussion about refereeing featuring LV. This will be good for a laugh.

Adnam is statue on defence, it was a foul. Mitchell team is full of poor defenders who never establish position and believe waving your arms around is defence. He's trying to get his team back on track and needs poor defence reward so he whinges to the refs, simple. I’ll leave Creek out that and Wesley plays D also.

No other than a few players it's a shit team. Some reputations are large but there either past it or not that good.

Dan Shamir made a point earlier in the season, if Cotton did the leg kick in Europe he would get an unsportsmanlike foul himself. It's ridiculous in the NBL the defender is penalized when aiming to keep their distance.

Cats fan and I 100% agree with Mitchell, fans want to see the players play. League refereeing is ruining the TV and game night spectacle with 3 refs who want to be the centre of attention.

Hope the league owners realise better to innovate to make the product more free flowing than following every rule to strictest interpretation.

"if Cotton did the leg kick in Europe he would get an unsportsmanlike foul himself. "
bullshit

"It's ridiculous in the NBL the defender is penalized when aiming to keep their distance."
No, they're no keeping their distance, that's the whole point.
If you are closing out a shooter, ie moving, you can't enter their "cylinder" its simple.

If you listen to the commentary, Anstey explains it well, the problem is lack of close-out drills by coaches, and lack of discipline by the defenders.

Cotton doesn't kick his legs out to draw contact when shooting.

Mitchell lacks the calmness of an elite coach but I can't blame him for criticising the refs after last night.

Cotton kicks his legs into the defenders cylinder. It's not a normal action.

Refs look after their own zones of the court. 3 refs would virtually never all see the same incident

Shamir was talking about Randle desperately milking it wasn't he?

YouTube 'Bryce Cotton 4 point plays 2018/19'.
Simply watch where his feet are in relation to the three point line and where they land on his shots. 80% of the time in that compilation he lands outside his straight up and down cylinder which is where the defender is aiming to avoid.

Mitchell should lose the towel , stop wearing runners with his suit and stop whinging. Poor coach being exposed. Looks way out of his depth.

"WTF is ticky touchwood.
LOL. This."

You seriously think some metrosexual millenial would know this expresssion? You keep coming up with so much stupid shit Perthworld.

Check out Cadee's third quarter buzzer beater today. If that was Cotton, the ref would have also called the foul and it would have been a 4 point play.

"YouTube 'Bryce Cotton 4 point plays 2018/19'.
Simply watch where his feet are in relation to the three point line and where they land on his shots. 80% of the time in that compilation he lands outside his straight up and down cylinder which is where the defender is aiming to avoid."

Where he lands is totally irrelevant. What is relevant is whether the defender is playing legal defense and in most (but not all) cases it is not legal because the defender is moving laterally or towards him when contact is made.

There is no "straight up and down cylinder." The shooter is entitled to land without having a defender occupy the space he is landing.

Shooter isn't entitled to shit if the defender was there first

We're talking about moving defenders, genius.

There was a call tonihgt in the Cairns game in the 4th? The lead ref was behind the play and called a foul, There was no way that that ref could have seen anything in that incident as all the ref would seen was 2 players backs. The fron view forom the cams showed SFA contact which the out of position ref could never have see, I was always taught as a ref "call what you saw", "not what you thought you saw"

Cotton shoots with the same motion all the time, players get caught out because he has a lot of elevation on his shot allowing them more time to get close before his release, by then they are in his landing space, he is entitled to move forward when he shoots and does so consistently with the same form, it is hardly am unnatural or wild kicking out motion. If it was, he wouldn't be such a good shot.

Sounds like a preemptive whinge from LV, now that the Cats are proving to be title favourites.

Cats will never be title favourites. NZ beat the Kings with no Bogut. Immediately Cats are favs. Bullshit.

What?

As a supporter who has had ware formerly, cg43, long and trimble play for them and get rewarded for every head bob ever, i think your argument is a little rich, if anything cottons landing space has mot been protected as well this year.