Well here we are onto round 2 of the NBA and NHL playoffs. The question must be asked, has the officiating been any worse than this year? Answer nope. As an avid follower of the NBA, and to a lesser extent the NHL playoffs, I've been frankly stunned at how bad its been.
Ask Dwight Howard how bad it was during the Charlotte series. The NBA defensive player of year was repeatedly called for foul after foul, for get this, playing defence. Now I know the NBA is where amazing happens, but quite frankly the officiating in round one spun quickly from the amazing to the embarassing. It was almost as if the refs had determined ahead of time to not let him play. As we spun off to the Western Conference, it was almost as if the refs decided that the young Oklahoma City Thunder wouldn't be allowed to beat the Lakers in Los Angeles, then decided to chuck the homecourt rule and let the Lakers run rampant in the paint in Oklahoma. I mean some of the calls were mindboggling to say the least. As for Denver/Utah, the Nuggets should just have stayed home, as it became extremely clear that for the refs only one team fouled. I mean Carmelo didn't even get the two or three borderline calls that usually go to superstars, while nameless rookies got calls for falling down or being in the same vicinity as Denver's basket.
I usually avoid talking about the NHL officiaiting because I'm convinced there is no hard and fast rule, they just make stuff up as they go along, but last night a penalty shot was called for shoving the puck under the goalie in the Detroit/San Jose series. Stupidly, I assumed that you had to close your hand on the puck, but not according to the refs last night. Oh well, round one is over and hopefully it can't get any worse.
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