This is the answer imo, as I’ve also mentioned elsewhere before. I would add that back to the basket post-ups also don’t get a ton of foul calls normally, which is another way we score in the paint. Like, I’m not saying our whistle is great, but I don’t usually come away from a game thinking we got screwed over by the refs. Sometimes I’ll go read our sub after a game and see a bunch of complaining about reffing that I thought was at least fair (bad calls are both ways), so clearly some people feel differently, but I don’t really see it.

I think part of it recently is the fact we’ve been losing some games we shouldn’t. People need something to blame, which has largely been the refs and the bench (sometimes the bench has been an issue with Jamal out obviously, but even in games the bench is fine people love to scapegoat them).