From: gary@ccs.northeastern.edu (Gary Duhaney)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.basketball.pro
Subject: Re: Olympic hoops referees
Date: 29 Jul 92 14:22:43 GMT
Organization: Comp. Sci. @ NU

In article <l7b7c5INN1gi@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> ma@bluedevil.Eng.Sun.COM (Shing C. Ma) writes:
>The most refreshing thing to me about the Olympic basketball
>is the referees.  No more "protect the superstar" bullshit.
>NBA referees are a bunch of jokers giving preferential treatment
>to superstars and pissing on rookies.  IMHO, all players should
>be treated the same, superstars and rookies alike.  The excuse
>of not calling fouls on superstars because fans came to watch
>them play and not sit on the bench is ridiculous.  If a superstar
>cannot play without fouling then he deserve to ride the pine.

I'm sure you would be stupid enough to pay $40 a game to see
Jordan/Bird/Magic and all the other superstars sitting on the bench
after the ref treated them like Rick Fox, or Stanley Robberts.
I'm sure you would shell out $1600+ a year to see the tenth and
12th men playing 20+ minutes a game, because the ref called some
petty calls on the stars.

>
>Also the bullshit of not calling fouls at the end of a close game
>is equally ridiculous.  A foul is a foul whether it is a blow-out
>or the end of a close game.  What's this BS about the US volleyball
>team complaining about the yellow card during the game point of
>the Japan-US game? If you violate the rules you pay for it, even if
>the game is on the line.

Obviously we know what team you're rooting for SHING.  Why should the
ref decide a game based on which team he likes or not.  The refs were
rather incompetent at the end of that game.  They couldn't remember
who did what, when and why.  No wonder they canned him.

>
>I just finished reading Barkley's book, "Outrageous".  I know Barkley
>is a fierce competitor, but the elbow on the Angolan player is
>absolutely unnecessary.  Daly should bench Barkley and give more PT
>to Laettner.

Get a brain, if Laettner had even half as much game as Barkley, he might
have seen some real pt.  Obviously Chuck Daly knows basketball.
Aside from passing the ball to more competent players, Laettner has
only done one thing right (he stripped one of the Angolan players on
a 2 on one break.  Oddly enough, he was already down court before the
Angolan team started the break, hmmmmmmm).

>		It ain't gonna happen cause "the fans came to see him
>(and others) play".  The NBA is heading in the direction of Pro-Wrestling
>with the rule inconsistencies.

That's right they came to see the best basketball players, not a media
and duke fan overhyped clown.

>
>Also, the the NBA Champs was not, is not and will not be the World
>Camps.  The Deam Team will be because it played with the best the
>other countires of the world have to offer.  NBA Champs == World
>Champs --- what a joke.

The Dream Team has yet to play the NBA Champs.  Therefore by your
foolish argument the dream team is not the World Champ.  The NBA
send a team each year to the McDonalds open game (?).  This team
in the past used to play the best foreign teams (before the countries
allowed their players to play in the NBA).  This team, sometimes didn't
make it past the 2nd round of the NBA playoffs.  Therefore, if the
NBA champs can beat the MacDonalds open team, then they can beat the
best foreign team.  Also, alot of the best players of these other
teams are NBA players (Detlef, Marciolonis (sp?), etc).

>
>-shing

ma@bluedevil.Eng.Sun.COM

When I first saw this, I thought hey a guy from Sun's Engineering Dept
who is obviously a rabid Duke bluedevil fan (Insistence that Laettner has
enough game to beat out Barkley for a spot, with anything other than
teenage girls).  But after reading your post I figure you must be
a rabid Duke fan working in Sun's English Department.

Have you ever checked out some of these cryptic manuals that Sun
puts out.  Good Lord.