T you beat me to it. I was going to start a thread called the need for an officiating overhaul.
Officials will always bee needed and there will always be gray areas with regards to fouls, but lets give them some help.
They have alot to focus on.
If ALL they had to do was focus on the ball and the play and not have to worry about 3 second violations, 5 second violations and out of bounds plays, then they would have a better percentage of correct calls on other things, because they would have more of a focus on those aspects of the game.
I propose the NBA follows Tennis. Lets get laser cams on all of the court lines. Let the computers decide if the player stepped out of bounds or if it was a three or not. Let the computer keep track of the time and start a 3 second and 5 second countdown for every play that requires it. We have camera set up all over the place and Tennis has used laser sites on their lines since the 90's.
Why are we relying on someones vision for these types of plays? I could see it being harder in football because of the size of the field and amount of players to track, but in basketball, the court is nominally larger than the Tennis court and there are only 11 objects to track on the court at once.
This could easily be done and allow the refs to focus more on what matters.
We were absolutely robbed of a game last night.
