having Walton thrown out in the third quarter at least it helped highlight the continued obvious biased officiating we have been fighting all year.
Yes in that quarter the team went into limp mode and yes our opponents did some pretty darn good shooting but we don’t need officials helping them come back because we are able to handle that ourselves.
What the heck is it with the refs and the Kings? As Kings fans, we've almost come to expect that we're going to be victims of bad and biased calls more often than not. Every game. But why??? What goes on in the minds of the refs when they're doing a Kings game?
I could be wrong, but I don't believe it is ever (or almost never) a bias that the refs can see in order to correct. It's something in their heads, or in their subconcious. It makes their first impulse go against the Kings. They don't usually allow the impulse to overrule their objective logic. (If they did, we'd never win a game.) But the impulse is always there and it affects just enough calls (or non-calls) that we end up spotting the opposition several points a game (and sometimes much more). Maybe it's because we're been bottom dwellers for so long?
The lack of fairness to Fox is blatent, and may actually be a different bias than the bottom dweller bias I suggested above. With Fox, I think it's because he's so damned fast. The refs are often in catch-up mode with Fox, so they do the non-call thing as a way of saying "Well, I'm really not sure. I abstain."
Whatever it is, it's now a bigger issue than ever before, as far as I can recall. And that's because, right now, every single point and every single game is huge for the Kings. There is no room for error. And I do not buy the suggestion that we just have to accept it as Kings fans. That's self-defeating and lame. Instead of rattling our pitchforks at Vlade and ghosts of the past, how about we rattle them at the biased officiating that the NBA should be ashamed of?