Anthony Dabbundo

Um,

There were just outright, you can watch some of the stuff on YouTube.

There were just some, some games that you just can't believe how one side of the officiating ones, which is so much harder to do now in the era of social media.

I really feel like in the two thousands, this shifted with, from what was going on basically from 1999 through the Miami, um, Dallas series in oh six, um,

than Donaghy happens in 07.

And all of a sudden we got way better at kind of monitoring what was going on with refs.

So there is a before after that.

And then Mitchell Eppner says, what about video review?

Not just in-game requests for replays, but the constant drilling the NBA refs get from league offices and calls they got right and wrong.

They have the performance report after the games.

and they're hammering down on them left and right, maybe the refs are just better at calling stuff.

Well, don't tell the Knicks fans this after game three, even though we're taping this before game four.

But...

It's possible.

I think it's way harder to have a completely terrible one-sided refereeing performance than it was, and there's probably more accountability for a variety of reasons.

And Byron, a Pacer fan, and this is a tough playoffs to watch, he said, you can't affect refs nearly as much now because bad calls will be reviewed and made right.

You can't be terrible homer refs because it'll be graded and scrutinized by everybody.

So the refs are a piece of it.

I think that travel, the more I thought about it, I think that travel is the number one thing that is just easier than it was in the 70s and 80s.

The refs are more consistent.