GAME 5: LAL Refs (4-1) @ DAL (3-2) | 110-119 OT loss | NBA admits missed call

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When your team sucks for seven years and only plays meaningless games, you really forget how much of a BS driven entertainment business the NBA is. Teams will have their handful to beat the Lakers 8 on 5 four times. Credit to Dwight with two big plays. I mean both were fouls, but who cares as long as it´s the Lakers. 

Porzingis was poor. Stop dribbling and driving, you suck at it. Did you know Dwight spends 10 hours in the gym every day. Still can´t hit a FT.

Also Carlisle had a shocker. Did he use his challenge?

Couldnt challenge cause he had 0 timeouts as usual. What a frustrating loss

He could still have challenged Dwight busting Luka open. He also could have challenged the LeBron travel, where he jumped in the air and landed with the ball before passing. He´s probably too OLD SCHOOL for such game-altering decisions. Twice he could have overturned OBVIOUS calls (Porzingis loose ball foul and Bron travel), and each time the other team scored (Portland and Lakers). Also no idea why he took out Kleber for Powell with like five minutes to play. Defense wokring too well?

Cannot challenge no calls. Learn the rules before you start complaining.

Figures the NBA would make dumb rules again, that cover their asses. So as long as the refs swallow their whistles the designated winners are safe.  

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We have to talk about the refs first and foremost unfortunately. So many calls in favor of LA, LeBron specifically. So many missed stuff that cost the Mavericks. None bigger than Dwight holding Curry on the three by Green that sent it to OT. Players, coaches and Cuban better collect some 25k fines and won't spare with insults. These motherfuckers don't deserve to call another game.

This is what bothers me the most. I understand the refs are human, but they literally get paid 6 figures to do this. They should be the most elite of the elite, and trained thousands of hours. 

But these so called professionals miss THIS many calls?? Like C'mon! I don't think the NBA is rigged (Besides 06), because there are too many factors to rig a game, but you can certainly call in favor for a team. Lakers won every 50/50 call. Got literally everything to go their way. And they still needed an uncalled hold to send the game to overtime.  

The amount of contact LAL got away with on Luka is disgusting. Like actually disgusting to the point Luka may have a concussion (on contact that was never called!!).  

And the worst part about it is that these refs will not be held accountable for a performance like this. At any other job, you'd get reprimanded at the least for blowing it this many times, if you weren't terminated. As a student you'd fail and face the repercussions if you miss questions on tests, why do refs not face the same? 

I fucking loath how the NBA protects the refs as if they get it correctly most of the time. They don't. And the L2M report that confirms this garbage is meaningless. Fines. Suspensions. Demotions. Thats whats needed. If a ref is this poor at their job, send them to the D-League, and promote someone else from the D-League.

 You work under the wrong assumption that the NBA does not want refs to call "bad" games like this. They do exactly the job they are supposed to.