3 refs, 1 stood down, surely the other 2 could've made the call. How many times do you see the ref out of place make the call. Perth fans will have a field day wit this one though smh.

It looks like a bit of an unconfirmed report IMO.
The ref might have made a "bad call" against the Cats but the reality is the bad calls went both ways.

And here is the first to react... its sport. Trust me, it feels a lot worse when you FEEL your team got screwed in a final ala Mee and Lowry. Train said it, bad calls both ways, and that is pretty much every game in every sport. Humans make errors, and also get a lot of 50-50 calls correct!

The ref got it wrong OK, but the Cats should look at their inability to block out Majok and shooting 21% from downtown.

I wouldn't read too much into an unconfirmed report out of WA. "Officials" - as in all of them, over one call?
If it's true, that's a joke. You don't stand refs down over something like that.

Keep in mind its a "West Australian" news article. Home town bias and reporting is expected and justifiable :P

Not sure if it's true or not.. And IMO it wasn't a foul. If that was a foul then the play before hand, Holt should have got an and one.

bout time! not just that game, should be looked at for every game! that's how they will learn!

some games like that decide a coaches job or a teams chance to play finals.

Allen hates Perth with a passion! fact!

what did you want Knight to do? walk away and have a free drive? please

One report said one ref was stood down over a few bad calls, another report said that all refs were stood down, although they only listed the Beal foul as one example. I don't think we will get the full story from the NBL on this.

The refs didn't cause the Cats to lose but if refs are making lots of errors then I see no issue with them being stood down for a week. Receiving no punishment doesn't make them learn anything.

On the other hand, the Beal call was a correct no-call.

I'm far more interested in the clock.

Maybe that was another thing, although I didn't see any protests at the time so not sure the refs can discuss a timing issue if they aren't aware of it.

If it is the Beal call, obviously the refereeing crew have decided it wasn't the correct no call.

If there's been the level of debate about that one call, even after everyone has had the benefit of watching replays, then it's obviously not an absolute howler worthy of standing a ref/refs down over.
If a ref has an absolute stinker of a game, making obvious blunders throughout then maybe, but on that call? Not for mine.

No doubt bad calls happened all game and had no impact on the result but there were a couple more in the final minutes that stood out more to me. The Goulding flop was one, and there was another where Goulding was awarded two FTs when he wasn't in the act of shooting (United weren't in the bonus either). But without any official word from the league, this is all guesswork.

Interesting stuff.
I could see an official being stood down for an accumulation of dodgy calls, or for black/white type errors, but surely not for a single interpretation call.
Home court is a valuable thing, and the effect of the crowd on players & refs is a big reason for that. Human nature and all that...

I know Jawai looks like he wants to kill you, but too many calls 'cause he's big.

Wow.. Are you sure the refs aren't being called into question over the non calls throughout the game? Perth were very physical at times.

Which leads me to the question, why do the referees allow so much contact on the screener in ball screen situations? Pushing the screener so hard that they almost fall over is a foul everywhere else in the world so why isn't it here? I'm sure the Melbourne coach is wondering as well?

Do I expect Knight to lay down and let Holt lay it in? What did you expect Majok to just let Beal lay it in? Come on.

I'd say good no call on both plays. Let the men play in the final minutes (within reason).

In saying that - I do believes refs should be under the microscope more when it comes to bad calls and im all for refs being stood down for a game or two etc for consistent bad performances/trends with certain teams.

Serious question because I don't know, but do we actually have enough quality refs in Australia to start dropping them for games as disciplinary measures???

Notice that the article says the ref/refs was/were stood down, and that they waved off the foul, but never actually says there's a connection.

"It's probably like when WWE suspend their talent for a chair shot. Everyone with a brain knows it's scripted except a few of the slower fans."

Aren't they all...you know...slower.

Even blind freddy could see it was a foul

lisch might be getting ready to put forward a special game.

And how many uncalled fouls have been committed by Perth in the past against other teams?

fstos hahaha I was thinking that too :P

I don't think a ref gets stood down over one marginal non-call.
One of the anons keeps going on about a ref "celebrating with the cheerleaders" is there any truth to that? The NBL MIGHT think something like that was improper conduct from a ref?

Who said the ref was celebrating with the cheerleaders?

I dunno, I reckon if Melbourne's cheerleaders wanted to celebrate with me, that'd be worth sitting a game or two :D

"Interesting stuff.
I could see an official being stood down for an accumulation of dodgy calls, or for black/white type errors, but surely not for a single interpretation call."

This.

The call in question has been called both ways in the NBL for a number of years, so it's hardly one that screams incompetence either way. It's more one where the refs boss would send video out saying he wants that called one way or the other.

If a ref has been actually stood down (Chris Clark, Michael Aylen or Chris Reid) we'll see this week when the crews roll out.