Donaghy, Tim - 2006-2007
General
<table class="data" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="1"> <tbody><tr> <td class="datahl2" width="40%"> Jersey Number
Games Officiated
Home Team ATS
Home Team W/L
Avg. Home Score
Avg. Road Score
Home Avg. Margin
Avg. Total Score </td> <td class="datacell"> 21
74
30-41-3
40-34
101.5
99.7
1.8
201.2</td> </tr> </tbody></table> OverUnder vs. the Total
<table class="data" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="1"> <tbody><tr> <td class="datahl2" width="40%"> Overall:
184.5 or less:
185-194.5:
195-204.5:
205+: </td> <td class="datacell"> 43-29
10-2
13-11
13-5
7-11</td> </tr> </tbody></table> Favorite or Underdog
<table class="data" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="1"><tbody><tr class="datahead"> <td>Spread</td> <td width="30%">Home Favorite</td> <td width="30%">Home Underdog</td> </tr> <tr valign="top"> <td class="datahl2" width="40%"> 0-4.5
5-9.5
10+ </td> <td class="datacell"> 5-12
14-10
4-4
</td> <td class="datacell"> 6-8
1-7
0-0</td></tr></tbody></table>
General
<table class="data" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="1"> <tbody><tr> <td class="datahl2" width="40%"> Jersey Number
Games Officiated
Home Team ATS
Home Team W/L
Avg. Home Score
Avg. Road Score
Home Avg. Margin
Avg. Total Score </td> <td class="datacell"> 21
74
30-41-3
40-34
101.5
99.7
1.8
201.2</td> </tr> </tbody></table> OverUnder vs. the Total
<table class="data" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="1"> <tbody><tr> <td class="datahl2" width="40%"> Overall:
184.5 or less:
185-194.5:
195-204.5:
205+: </td> <td class="datacell"> 43-29
10-2
13-11
13-5
7-11</td> </tr> </tbody></table> Favorite or Underdog
<table class="data" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="1"><tbody><tr class="datahead"> <td>Spread</td> <td width="30%">Home Favorite</td> <td width="30%">Home Underdog</td> </tr> <tr valign="top"> <td class="datahl2" width="40%"> 0-4.5
5-9.5
10+ </td> <td class="datacell"> 5-12
14-10
4-4
</td> <td class="datacell"> 6-8
1-7
0-0</td></tr></tbody></table>
Guess he had Houston in this one and didn't want Petro to guard Yao.......
Notes: Houston has won six in a row against Seattle. ... Referee Tim Donaghy called a foul on Johan Petro on the opening tip – 1 second into the game – for bumping Yao on the jump. ...The Rockets never trailed in a game for the first time since a 116-98 win over Denver on Jan. 9, 2005. ... Yao had five assists, tying a season high.
Notes: Houston has won six in a row against Seattle. ... Referee Tim Donaghy called a foul on Johan Petro on the opening tip – 1 second into the game – for bumping Yao on the jump. ...The Rockets never trailed in a game for the first time since a 116-98 win over Denver on Jan. 9, 2005. ... Yao had five assists, tying a season high.
I really don't like the NBA. I really hate refs, college and pro. They are incompetent boobs and who likely follow orders to call it 'one way' by the NBA (or the mob).
Seriously, you have the NBA. The NBA is home to, IMO, the most gifted athetes in the world and you have the likes of Joey Crawford and Dick Bavetta(sp) controlling the action. You generally have old, short, white guys calling the game, trying to keep up with the these utlra-sized, ultra-athletic and ultra-skilled basketball players. How in the hell can these guys even relate to what the hell Kobe, McGrady, LeBron can do?
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Is there anything wrong with this picture? Who's senile grandpa made it onto the court?
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Remember back a few yrs when several refs were caught trading in their first class tickets for cheaper ones to make money...that was all we needed to know about that 'close knit' group.
I think back to before the rules were changed it was an 'UNDER' REFEREES PARADISE! Still very easy to control the totals but back then 'WHISTLE' restart shot clock, 'on the floor'...
Bavetta use to drive me nuts calling fouls, on the floor late in the clock .
I think back to before the rules were changed it was an 'UNDER' REFEREES PARADISE! Still very easy to control the totals but back then 'WHISTLE' restart shot clock, 'on the floor'...
Bavetta use to drive me nuts calling fouls, on the floor late in the clock .
I saw this posted somewhere else so I cant verify all the numbers are correct but it sounds good. I think 1,309 would be all the regular season games + playoffs:
Let's review these numbers again to see what it would take to fix an NBA game. There were 1309 games last season -
77 of those games were decided by exactly 9 points
632 decided by less than 9 points
600 decided by more than 9 points
Half the games were 8 or more points away from the pointspread and half the games were less than 8 points away from the pointspread.
On average, it would take at least 5 bad calls a game (assuming a free throw rate of 75 percent) to give a team 7.5 points to turn an average ATS loss into an ATS win. Of course, in half the games, the side that was to be fixed was going to cover anyway. So bad calls in those games just exaggerated the final pointspread margin. Also, one has to assume that the official's fixing started at the outset of the game and not just in the final minutes. So, it's not just shaving points in an already-decided game. The ref would be affecting the outcome from the get-go. Nothing is guaranteed, of course, but making 5 bad calls a game would increase the chances of a cover from 50% to 75% and that's all the mob needs to make a killing.
Let's review these numbers again to see what it would take to fix an NBA game. There were 1309 games last season -
77 of those games were decided by exactly 9 points
632 decided by less than 9 points
600 decided by more than 9 points
Half the games were 8 or more points away from the pointspread and half the games were less than 8 points away from the pointspread.
On average, it would take at least 5 bad calls a game (assuming a free throw rate of 75 percent) to give a team 7.5 points to turn an average ATS loss into an ATS win. Of course, in half the games, the side that was to be fixed was going to cover anyway. So bad calls in those games just exaggerated the final pointspread margin. Also, one has to assume that the official's fixing started at the outset of the game and not just in the final minutes. So, it's not just shaving points in an already-decided game. The ref would be affecting the outcome from the get-go. Nothing is guaranteed, of course, but making 5 bad calls a game would increase the chances of a cover from 50% to 75% and that's all the mob needs to make a killing.
Is Rasheed wallace a lost cause? The answer from many G.M.'s is a resounding no. Though he was in the midst of a seven-game suspension last week for allegedly threatening referee Tim Donaghy -- the longest suspension the league has ever handed out for a case not involving violence or drugs
Wallace confronted Donaghy, who had given him a T, on the Rose Garden's loading docks. Eyewitnesses say Wallace cocked his fist and, when the ref recoiled, said, "You better flinch, you motherf------ punk.... I am going to kick your f------ ass." (Wallace denies that he threatened Donaghy with his fist, and the players' union plans to appeal his suspension, which, if it stands, will cost him $1.26 million in salary.)
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From earlier this year (interesting, read near the end about a ghost foul):
• Congratulations to Greg Willard, Tim Donaghy and Eddie F. Rush for giving us the most atrociously officiated game of the playoffs so far: Game 3 of the Suns-Spurs series. Bennett Salvatore, Tom Washington and Violet Palmer must have been outraged that they weren’t involved in this mess. Good golly. Most of the calls favored the Spurs, but I don’t even think the refs were biased — they were so incompetent that there was no rhyme or reason to anything that was happening. Other than the latest call in NBA history (a shooting foul for Ginobili whistled three seconds after the play, when everyone was already running in the other direction), my favorite moment happened near the end, when the game was already over and they called a cheap bump on Bruce Bowen against Nash, so the cameras caught Mike D’Antoni (the most entertaining coach in the league if he’s not getting calls) screaming sarcastically, “Why start now? Why bother?” What a travesty. Not since the cocaine era from 1978-1986 has the league faced a bigger ongoing issue than crappy officiating.
• Congratulations to Greg Willard, Tim Donaghy and Eddie F. Rush for giving us the most atrociously officiated game of the playoffs so far: Game 3 of the Suns-Spurs series. Bennett Salvatore, Tom Washington and Violet Palmer must have been outraged that they weren’t involved in this mess. Good golly. Most of the calls favored the Spurs, but I don’t even think the refs were biased — they were so incompetent that there was no rhyme or reason to anything that was happening. Other than the latest call in NBA history (a shooting foul for Ginobili whistled three seconds after the play, when everyone was already running in the other direction), my favorite moment happened near the end, when the game was already over and they called a cheap bump on Bruce Bowen against Nash, so the cameras caught Mike D’Antoni (the most entertaining coach in the league if he’s not getting calls) screaming sarcastically, “Why start now? Why bother?” What a travesty. Not since the cocaine era from 1978-1986 has the league faced a bigger ongoing issue than crappy officiating.
More evidence and another game involving the Phoenix Suns:
Actually, an enraged Hill was on the court protesting another foul on Howard, the 6 foot-11 center who virtually vanished in the fury and flurry of the Suns' pinball offense.
Howard, no match for counterpart Stoudemire, already had been whistled for a technical foul.
It was Hill's turn, and he had to be held back by several Magic players from going after referee Tim Donaghy.
"It wasn't a two-way street," Hill said. "He (Howard) was getting beat up down there."
The Magic kept pace with the Suns' furious attack for the first half and, in fact, rushed to an 8-0 lead to open the game.
But there was no Howard for much of the first half after he picked up his second foul with a little less than three minutes left in the first period.
Actually, an enraged Hill was on the court protesting another foul on Howard, the 6 foot-11 center who virtually vanished in the fury and flurry of the Suns' pinball offense.
Howard, no match for counterpart Stoudemire, already had been whistled for a technical foul.
It was Hill's turn, and he had to be held back by several Magic players from going after referee Tim Donaghy.
"It wasn't a two-way street," Hill said. "He (Howard) was getting beat up down there."
The Magic kept pace with the Suns' furious attack for the first half and, in fact, rushed to an 8-0 lead to open the game.
But there was no Howard for much of the first half after he picked up his second foul with a little less than three minutes left in the first period.
