Mamba81

Wow guys, I'm the one who started this thread but by no means did I think it was going to spark a 3 person conversation battle like this. I frequent both this site and that one and just thought that some of the detroit fans in this forum would want to join in on the petition.

I for one am not encouraging whinning for 5 minutes after a bad call. I think some of you are not getting the whole point here, its not just about techs being caled for whinning to the ref and crying, were talking about the rediculous calls being made for just putting your arms up, or making some uncontroable facial expression to the bull**** call being made. I mean I agree there should be a happy medium here, but i disagree with the people who think that thats actually going to happen. Based on what I saw during last years playoffs and how the refs were instructed by who i can only assume David Stern, to make sure that anyone who even looked in Dwyane Wade or Lebron James' direction be called for a foul, whether it would change the outcome of the game or not. based on that, I think the refs will still be taking full advantage of this no tolerance rule well into the season and into the playoffs once again altering the outcomes of big games and making sure the team and player (ie, DWade or LJames) win the games their supposed to. The NBA is a money making machine and that is exactly how Stern sees it and uses it, so if that means making sure people like Wade and Lebron win championships and are on the cover of every game and magazine, by all means he's going to do it.

I happen to enjoy the site that the petition is hosted at, if you don't agree with the petition than don't sign it, but you don't have to bash the site or the owner of it, over something like that. If this continues, I would ask that someone please remove my post and this thread.