Is it me, or has the quality of officiating in the playoffs just been horrendous. As a Jazz fan, I'm only going to point out the two basket interference calls over the last two games because I may be too biased in that series to do it justice. My biggest concern is not that the refs are making mistakes on hard calls, its that they are making them on simple calls, like out of bounds and basket interference.
In the Spurs-Suns game last night, it was either on back to back trips, or two trips out of three, where Spurs players TRIPPED THEMSELVES, and were awarded with foul calls. In the one with Duncan you can see the official that made the call in one of the replays, and he wasn't even looking at the play. He was looking off ball, and just made the call when Duncan fell down. Terrible, just terrible.
Any game that Steve Javie officiates for the Jazz will be poorly called, so I kind of throw those ones out because its obviously a personal thing between him and Jerry Sloan. On the other hand, Bevetta, who blew several calls against the Jazz in the Finals 10 years ago, does seem to want to make amends and does show a little favortism towards the team he stole a game or two from.
I guess you can have that oppinion. I would say that having the third most triple doubles on the NBA all time list behind only Oscar Robertson and Magic Johnson is evidence of a pretty good player. That stat alone might get him into the Hall of Fame.
