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Message: [QUOTE="HuskyHawk, post: 3034982, member: 1414"] He's not wrong. The refs really are pretty awful. They swing back and forth between calling nonsense ticky tack contact and letting egregious fouls go. Yesterday there was a rather violent foul where Vital was shoved to the floor (no flop). They did call that, on Vital. Some of that awfulness goes in our favor too. Is it deciding games? Sometimes. The OT loss to Cinci was a gift to them from the refs. Other games it's more about players adapting to a crew that calls everything, or nothing or everything on the perimeter and nothing inside, or vice versa. We've seen all four of those this year. Maybe 20% of our games were well officiated. That's being kind. I have to imagine that the wild inconsistency, sometimes even within a single game, makes it hard for him to teach these young players how to play under the shifting rules. [/QUOTE]