Bevetta should be forced to retire

OdomX2 · Star Player Joined: 25 Nov 2004 Posts: 3973

The guy is a laughing stock. He's blown more calls in this playoffs than any other ref...and that's saying a whole lot. This old fart needs to find a flat in Florida with plenty of Pink Flamingos. His days as an effective NBA ref are done!!

DuncanIdaho · Posted: Thu May 25, 2006 7:30 pm Post subject:

for real

BraveHeartII · Star Player Joined: 06 Mar 2006 Posts: 1848

He didn't miss it. It's no different than Luke's "jumpball", let's just say that it's a unwritten rule that if you choke, refs will "pretend" that they just didn't see what everybody saw, and give you that critical call.

KobeButler · Franchise Player Joined: 14 Nov 2004 Posts: 10179

bavetta claimed it was too loud. Yet almost half of the audicnce was gone from the arena.

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Zhengi · Star Player Joined: 06 Sep 2004 Posts: 6445

What play are you guys talking about?
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ocho · Retired Number Joined: 24 May 2005 Posts: 53836

didn't see the game tonight so i didn't see the call in question....however it does seem silly for a guy his age to be expected to be sharp.
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prisma8slg · Posted: Thu May 25, 2006 8:27 pm Post subject:

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magic_bryant · Franchise Player Joined: 16 Oct 2002 Posts: 18179

Tayshaun is trying to inbound the ball. The Heat are being overly physical with Billups without a call. Tayshaun gets ready to inbound the ball to Billups and Posey pushes him out of bounds, Tayshaun looks directly at Bavetta points to him and says, "Timeout". Bavetta continues the call and then calls for a turnover. Tayshaun is left standing in utter shock.

Bavetta after the game "apologizes" to Tayshaun after the game. Not for the missed call, but for something "he shouldn't have said". Those were Tayshaun's words. He said, "He apologized cause he said something he knows he shouldn't have said. But I'm not gonna repeat it and put it out there like that."

What a crock of (bleep). Would LOVE to have heard what he said to Tayshaun, because just as the game finally ended, you could see Tayshaun going over to Bavetta saying something, before being stopped by Rasheed.
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carlosLisboa · Posted: Fri May 26, 2006 1:16 am Post subject:

what a joke

Texas_Pete · Posted: Fri May 26, 2006 8:14 am Post subject:

This thread can be applied to 99.9% of the referees. Unless they can go by how the game was called in the 80's which made me a fan in the first place. If I just started watching the NBA games right now, I wouldn't be a as much of a fan as I am right now.

SenorJefe · Posted: Fri May 26, 2006 8:22 am Post subject:

I've always like Bavetta. Despite his apparently deafening blindness, he seems to be a fair ref. I gotta say I'd rather see Dick on the wood than Javie callin' the game.

By the way, Dick on the Wood is my new band name

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The Dagger · Posted: Fri May 26, 2006 8:22 am Post subject:

The refs did everything in their power to try and give this to the Heat. I've never seen anything like that last sequence. Billups got literally shoved to the ground about 3 feet from the ref and the ref just watched him fall; and then on the next play he got shoved again only this time harder and fell right in front of the ref again and Raunchy got up looking at the ref like duh, are you gonna call the foul? No foul and then he tops that off with a 5 second violation. Unbelievable.

re4ee · Franchise Player Joined: 07 Mar 2005 Posts: 12237

Bavetta "boxing out"

doughboy90650 · Posted: Fri May 26, 2006 12:00 pm Post subject:

Looks like he's trying to cop a feel ..........

LakerLegend · Star Player Joined: 10 Jun 2001 Posts: 1538

Both he and Lew Alcindor graduated from Power Memorial High School.
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Ozendorph · Posted: Fri May 26, 2006 3:20 pm Post subject:

That was an amazing sequence. If the Heat won that game, I doubt Bevetta would have made it out of the building alive. I really hope the Pistons' front office were crashing the phones before the players were off the floor, because if that's a sample of the officiating to come, they don't have a prayer in this series.
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