2015-16 Raptors and General NBA Thread

[Karl]

Not that it makes much difference tonight but is anyone else pissed off with how much the refs have let the Warriors foul DeRozan?

[Machiavelli]

I generally find the refs unfavorable towards the Raps....I guess that's what happens when you don't have a true star.

[jayswin]

Originally Posted by Machiavelli

I generally find the refs unfavorable towards the Raps....I guess that's what happens when you don't have a true star.

I know people generally shoot down conspiracy theories when it comes to sports, but I've never really trusted the NBA as a sport. I truly believe there's some **** going on in that league behind the scenes. I mean match fixing has surfaced to the point where an entire championship was basically admitted as bull****.

But that's likely just the surface. You can just feel it with the refs, too and I don't buy that it's all a star player vs role player issue. That's there too for sure, but it's an incredible easy sport for refs to manipulate when you really watch the last quarter closely. A couple of bad calls can basically hand a win to a preferred team.

Sure incompetence is there, but I've watched enough to see lots of examples of choosing to not call something correctly over making an incompetent call. And if you read around on the internet it's pretty damning that it isn't a real sport.

When I say not a real sport, my definition is that if there's any fixing AT ALL then the whole league isn't real.

[jayswin]

Wow, that's about as bad as gets by Carrol there. Huge run to get within 2 and he basically lets the ball get taken right out of his hands, GS goes the other way and gets 2+ the foul, 5 point game that we likely won't get back on the best team in the league. Geez.

[kmart]

Techs ftw

[kmart]

Cory Joseph is my new favourite Raptor. Dude is awesome on both ends of the basketball court. The signing was clearly not for his nationality.

[jayswin]

DD ties it at 96. We're still in it!!

[kmart]

I hate our offence

[jayswin]

Hahaha, there it is. So ****ing obvious. Fun sport to watch, but no way it's real. They're too obvious. Brutal. Refs literally just handed the game over.

[Karl]

Cory Joseph makes a great play to get an offensive rebound, yet the refs make a bad foul call. FML.

[TheAlpineOracle]

Every time I get back into basketball, the refs just pull me right back out. And absolute joke. NBA is closer to WWE (sports entertainment) than it is an actual sport.

[kmart]

Originally Posted by jayswin

Hahaha, there it is. So ****ing obvious. Fun sport to watch, but no way it's real. They're too obvious. Brutal. Refs literally just handed the game over.

Nightmare for the Raptors. NBA admitted on screwing up at the end of the Sacremento and New York games.

[jayswin]

I don't buy most of the blatant misses by NBA officials, it's always near the end of games when momentum could go either way.

"Oh sorry we messed up at the critical point at the end"

"Oh sorry we messed up at the critical point at the end"

"Oh sorry we messed up at the critical point at the end".

[TheAlpineOracle]

I really don't know why I expect anything different, especially after last year's playoffs and the officiating that clearly favoured Brooklyn.

[corporatejay]

Wow, here we go.

Wait for the final shot.

[TheAlpineOracle]

Are you ####ing kidding me. This is embarrassing.

[Karl]

Omfg. ####. Might as well crown their ####ing asses.

[corporatejay]

This league is ####ing ridiculous.

[jayswin]

Hahahahahahahaha!! He grabbed lowry. Are you f-in kidding me!!! This league is a complete and utter joke. Screw the NBA, no point in following it.

[kmart]

What kind of ref calls that smh.