Tag: Officiating

Venting on the last two minute report then talking Celtics roster, All-Stars, and concerns

Even the media were nonplussed with how the Pacers loss went.

After the NBA in effect admitted to being a major part of the reason why the Boston Celtics lost their most recent tilt with the Indiana Pacers thanks to a pair of late blown calls in their game at Gainbridge Fieldhouse last Monday night, fans of the ball club were irate.

But it was not just the fans who were irked by the predictable outcome — even with the twist that the foul on Jaylen Brown that supposedly was not one — current and former Celtics were angry about the outcome, as was LeBron James. Even the media were sharing their disappointment with the botched calls.

Regarding the latter, on a recent episode of the NBA Sports Boston “Celtics Talk” podcast, hosts Chris Forsberg and Cerrone Battle vented their frustrations, and talked a bit about the coming All-Star Game and trade deadline.

Check it out above!

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The Boston Celtics react to the NBA’s last two minute report on their loss to the Pacers

Derrick White said, “It doesn’t change anything … there were many things we could have done to avoid that situation.”

The NBA released their last two minute report following the contentious end to the Boston Celtics’ recent loss against the Indiana Pacers on Monday night at Gainbridge Fieldhouse.

The report clarified that Pacers guard Buddy Hield did not foul star Celtics forward Jaylen Brown, describing the contact to the head as “minimal.” However, the league acknowledged that Indiana center Myles Turner should have been called for fouling Boston guard Derrick White in the final seconds and that Celtics center Kristaps Porzingis did not foul Pacers wing Bennedict Mathurin on the last shot.

CLNS Media’s Bobby Manning had a discussion with White before Boston’s matchup with the Minnesota Timberwolves, seeking his thoughts on the report. White said, “It doesn’t change anything … there were many things we could have done to avoid that situation … you’re upset in the moment, but we have to move on.”

Check out the clip above for the full reaction.

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Eddie House reacts to the Boston Celtics’ frustrating last two minute report

House shared his feelings about the bad calls and their impact on the game.

It wasn’t just the Boston Celtics players and their fans who were frustrated by the NBA’s bad calls that helped cost the Celtics their recent game against the Indiana Pacers, it seems. Former players for Boston also got on the airwaves to voice their displeasure with the results of the league’s last two minute report for the contest in question, including 2008 champion shooting guard and current broadcaster Eddie House.

House shared his feelings about the bad calls and their impact on the game and potentially the Celtics’ season on a recent episode of the NBC Sports Boston’s Celtics Post Up show. House let his ire rise to the surface while breaking down the potential impact that sort of officiating can have.

To hear what House had to say in his conversation with cohosts Amina Smith and Chris Forsberg, check out the clip embedded below.

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Did the NBA’s bad calls cost the Boston Celtics a game to the Indiana Pacers?

In fairness, the Celtics would never have been in such a position had they handled their business in the game’s third quarter,.

A recent Boston Celtics loss to the Indiana Pacers has the NBA’s officiating back in the spotlight for all the wrong reasons. The Celtics fell to the Pacers at Gainbridge Fieldhouse after a pair of botched calls by the officials robbed Boston of a chance to win the game in regulation, instead handing the tilt to Indiana on a platter.

In fairness, the Celtics would never have been in such a position had they handled their business in the game’s third quarter, a series of defensive lapses proving very costly in the long run for Boston. But the injection of the officials of their poor calls into the contest’s outcome has left a mark on the season most would like to forget.

Did the refs cost the Celtics a game to the Pacers? The hosts of the CLNS Media “The Big Three NBA” podcast recently talked through their feelings about the loss — check it out below.

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On the NBA admitting refs made game-altering mistakes in Boston Celtics loss to Indiana Pacers

The Celtics, of course, should never have been in such a position in the first place, their third-quarter defensive lapses ultimately the cause of the loss. But that’s little consolation for the refs making a bad situation worse.

The NBA recently acknowledged a critical officiating error during the Boston Celtics’ narrow defeat to the Indiana Pacers, with referees making game-altering mistakes in the final moments. The controversy revolves around two crucial calls that directly impacted the outcome of the contest.

One saw Indiana guard Buddy Hield hit Jaylen Brown on the head, and another credited a foul to Boston big man Kristaps Porzingis for contact on Pacers wing Bennedict Mathurin. The NBA’s last two minute report confessed to the officiating error, not that it will help the Celtics’ winning percentage when all is said and done.

The Celtics, of course, should never have been in such a position in the first place, their third-quarter defensive lapses ultimately the cause of the loss. But that’s little consolation for the refs making a bad situation worse.

The hosts of the CLNS Media “How Bout Them Celtics!” podcast weighed in on the admission by the league in their most recent episode — check it out above!

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NBA’s Last two minute report exonerates refs in overturned call in Celtics-Pacers

They still managed to botch a key call late by their own admission however.

It seems the officials did indeed botch a critical call in the waning seconds of the Boston Celtics‘ loss to the Indiana Pacers on Monday night, though likely not on the one most were looking at as the incorrect one.

The controversial overturning of a play initially ruled a foul on Indiana’s Buddy Hield as he made contact with Jaylen Brown’s head in the final seconds of the game but changed to a fair block on review was deemed the correct call by the NBA’s last two minute report released Tuesday afternoon. But another play shortly afterward was instead ruled an incorrect call, leading to the same sort of end to a game one never wants to see as a fan or a bettor.

That would be the play that saw Kristaps Porzingis pick up a foul just seconds later on Pacers wing Bennedict Mathurin, leading to two shots for Indiana that likely sealed the win for the Pacers.

Jaylen Brown calls out officiating in Boston Celtics’ controversial loss to the Pacers

“Of course I’m pissed about it,” said Brown postgame.

Playing on a ball club known for having players on it who are not afraid to complain to a referee when they think they were slighted by a call, star Boston Celtics forward Jaylen Brown is something of an exception when it comes to that sort of thing, rivaled by only Derrick White and Al Horford when it comes to not giving officials a hard time in green and white.

So Brown’s words should probably carry extra weight when he does complain. And after Monday night’s controversial loss to the Indiana Pacers, Brown did just that. A call in the game’s waning seconds with the score tied shifted what was originally called a foul that could have sealed the game for Boston into a possession and ultimately a win for Indiana upon review.

Brown, who was attacking the basket, saw a foul called on Pacers guard Buddy Hield due to contact with the Georgia native’s head — contact he would admit to Celtics head coach Joe Mazzulla he thought was a foul as well — reversed, confusingly, upon review.

Dan Campbell has ‘controlled fury’, vows that Lions ‘will use this as fuel’

Detroit head coach Dan Campbell talks about the Brad Allen officiating fiasco and says he’s “got controlled fury”

We got our first Dan Campbell press conference since the postgame of the Lions’ controversial Week 17 loss at Dallas. Campbell’s demeanor calmed in the 36 or so hours after the officiating gaffe by Brad Allen that cost the Lions a go-ahead two-point conversion.

As Rage Against the Machine would put it, “Calm Like a Bomb”…

“I’ve got controlled fury and I’m ready to go,” Campbell told reporters on Monday afternoon. “I’m absolutely ready to go. I don’t go the other way, and the team won’t either.”

The focused aggression in the face of such an infuriating moment extends to the players, according to Detroit’s head coach.

Campbell added: “We will use this as fuel. I’m full octane right now.”

The fuel is set to ignite in Ford Field against the Minnesota Vikings in the regular-season finale on Sunday.

Report indicates the NFL blames the Lions for Brad Allen’s mistaken call

A report from Pro Football Talk indicates the NFL blames the Lions for Brad Allen’s mistaken call

The Brad Allen saga continues into the new year, and it’s not headed in a direction that many Detroit Lions fans will like. Allen, the referee who mistakenly announced Dan Skipper as an eligible receiver instead of Taylor Decker on the critical 2-pt. conversion late in Detroit’s loss in Dallas in Week 17, has the protection of the NFL shield.

In a report propagated by Mike Florio of Pro Football Talk, the NFL is effectively covering up for Allen and pointing the finger at the Lions for the referee’s mistake:

Per a source with knowledge of the situation, the NFL does not plan to change the procedure for players reporting as eligible. The league views the situation as an effort by the Lions to engage in deception and gamesmanship that backfired.

While there might be some inherent deception built into the play, that doesn’t excuse Allen for his lazy, irresponsible error. He failed to do his job properly, period. If he’s that vulnerable to legally permitted deception, deliberate or not, he shouldn’t ever be allowed to blow a whistle again.

Technically, the report shows the NFL is correct on one front. The league does not need to change the procedure for players reporting as eligible. The Lions did that part to the letter of the law. Allen simply screwed it up on his own.

The fact the league defends him is a frustrating acknowledgment that the NFL doesn’t really want to fix its officiating issue. Failing to hold officials accountable for their own egregious mistakes is a slippery slope that keeps getting slicker and steeper for the NFL. The downhill momentum furthered willingly in the Allen case just might snowball into something much worse for the league.

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Oh so now Jared Goff has a problem with bad officiating

Oh, so now Jared Goff has a problem with bad officiating. The ex-Rams quarterback now knows how Saints fans felt when his Lions lost after a bad call:

The big discussion of the NFL world today is the officiating of last night’s football game between the Detroit Lions and the Dallas Cowboys. A crucial mistake at the end of the game helped cost the Lions the win and caused quarterback Jared Goff to change his tune on bad officiating.

“It sucks. It’s unfortunate man. I don’t know if I’ve had this feeling before, where you feel like you won but you didn’t,” said the Lions quarterback after the game, per The Athletic’s Colton Pouncy.

So what was the problem? Multiple Lions offensive linemen approached referee Brad Allen during the game to disguise which of them was the eligible receiver — something that Lions coach Dan Campbell alerted Allen to before kickoff, as is standard procedure. The play was intended to fool the Cowboys defense, but it confused Allen instead, and Detroit was set back by a penalty when the wrong lineman was flagged as an ineligible receiver downfield.

It’s unfortunate, but as New Orleans Saints fans know all too well, the “human element” of the game leads to this kind of heartbreak. And it certainly made an impression on Goff, whose words took a turn from his reflecting on the 2018 NFC championship game.

While appearing on the Pardon My Take podcast, Goff shrugged off Saints fans’ concerns of a missed call in the infamous 2018 conference title game when he was a member of the Los Angeles Rams. On the missed pass interference against his former teammate Nickell Robey-Coleman, Goff scoffed: “No, it wasn’t. Was it called pass interference? I’ve had a million pass interferences that weren’t called. Who says he makes the field goal, too? I know he’s automatic from (that distance), Lutz was, but I don’t know.”

Goff has also gone on the record and said that the Saints “had a chance” to win the game despite that no-call, but his Lions had a chance, too. After losing a two-point conversion to this officiating gaffe they tried again from a further distance, but this time they couldn’t get the job done. Now Goff knows how the over half lives when the referees aren’t doing their jobs.

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