In light of the officiating quality this year, I would be very curious to know about how the NBA manages officiating quality (top to bottom). Is anyone that has the full picture willing to share the processes?
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In light of the officiating quality this year, I would be very curious to know about how the NBA manages officiating quality (top to bottom). Is anyone that has the full picture willing to share the processes?
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The biggest problems with officiating in the NBA is the rules, the way the NBA evaluates referees and the fact that some playwrs/markets are reffed differently. I suggest everyone read the L2Ms for an entire season.
The refs are given way too much leeway in application of the rules. The did an action affect SQBR is left open to interpretation by the individual refs. Which leads to wildly different outcomes on different possessions, and different crews. Even in the same game since as you go cross court the reffing responsibilities change. Meaning that when you are on defense different refs are responsible for different areas of the court than when on offense. Which leads to frustrations by NBA players and fans why are touch fouls being called on one side and the refs letting them play on the other side. Then when the 2 min report comes out say all the calls are correct cause both fall within the range of acceptable interpretation.
The NBA does NOT independently score a game. They take the call on the court and each call on the court independently of other calls on the court in their evaluation process. This is an awful way to ensure consistency. They should independently score the best call each play then evaluate the scoring of the refs on that. Speaking of scoring the refs, there isn’t good enough incentives or punishments to get them to be consistent. I think people forget about referee reviews before the seacacus review center. The NBA couldn’t get its refs to apply consistent standards on replay and had to take it out of their hands. So when people argue that there are reffing rewards and punishments… they aren’t good enough they don’t actually work. The ref union is waaaay too powerful.
Finally, the standards ARE different for different players and markets. People are really resistant to this, because they don’t like the implication. I will defer to the players on this… they know this and have been pretty open about it. Andrew Bogut said that his career ended cause when he left the San Francisco market he could no longer get away with illegal screens. Everyone has seen 1 tech Draymond and yet everyone has seen Giannis and Jokic get tossed this year against Detroit.