00:00rick you've always been pretty critical of nba officiating obviously again another thing that
00:07people are looking at going into this series here how do you think it's gone so far in the first
00:13four games of the series well let me say so i haven't always been critical of them i'm critical
00:18of the fact that they are inconsistent there's a rule book call the game according to the rule
00:25book and sadly when playoffs come along it's like there's another rule book they don't call fouls
00:30that are normally fouls then they're inconsistent as a player you can adjust if if they're calling it
00:36close you'll adjust to that if they're letting you get away with stuff you're going to go and get away
00:40with it problem is you don't know when they're going to be in when they're going to call it close
00:43when they're going to let it go you have to call it the same way the entire game and they're
00:48not doing
00:48that and then come playoff time and i always used to say god rest his soul david sir david why
00:52do you
00:52want to give the less skilled players an advantage by letting them play so physical it doesn't take
00:59talent to hold shove push and the stuff they're doing out there is insane i mean you know one one
01:03of the times a sir carl anthony towns was actually just holding on to when being grabbing him while
01:07something was going on no whistle two guys kill each other wound up on the court on the floor no
01:12whistle then they barely touch somebody and breathe on him and they're calling the foul it's just so
01:17inconsistent players will adjust just call it to the rule book i'm not even get into carrying the ball
01:22oh my god brunson carries the ball so much all the players carry the ball that's a joke the moving
01:27screens are a joke you know the traveling is a joke at times it's very hard for me to watch
01:32the game
01:33because i'm call me a purist old school whatever no i'm someone who learned how to play the game
01:37according to the way it was designed to be played and they're letting these guys get away with murder
01:41and it's hard to watch and i just wish some of the guys out there well that might have been
01:45a foul no
01:46just say hey that should have been a foul they killed him the official swallowed his whistle
01:52anyway tonight's game is going to be very interesting it's not over you got it you got
01:57to eliminate them they're playing on the road san antonio i think should definitely be up three to one
02:02but their inexperience and their inability to play down the stretch when the game was on the line but
02:08just think of how many games that they had double digit leads 12 14 points 29 points and lost the
02:14games
02:15that that's inexcusable that really is inexcusable it falls on the players but i also think an
02:21inexperienced coach i mean anyway after they lost his two games at home i heard popovich came in and
02:26read the riot act and talked to them somewhat and they responded with the win you know in new york
02:30and they should have had a second win so it'd be fun to see what happens i tell everybody you
02:35would watch the nba always expect the unexpected because there's not a chance in the world
02:39that you would have thought that the knicks could win that game down 29 points in the first half
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