[外電] Woodson looking for a few good calls
Woodson looking for a few good calls
By SEKOU SMITH
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Published on: 03/15/06
New York — Hawks coach Mike Woodson has been on both sides of
this battle, the feud between NBA referees and head coaches
looking for an edge.
While an assistant with Detroit during its title-winning season
two years ago, Woodson knows that team was the beneficiary of
the benefit of the doubt while playing inferior opponents.
During his trying, 143-game tenure with the Hawks he's seen how
the other half lives. Night after night, seemingly regardless of
the opponent, he said his team gets on the wrong side of the game
officials.
"Something's got to be done about this," a worn out Woodson said
after Monday night's loss to Milwaukee, a game in which he
incurred the wrath of lead official Derrick Stafford as his team
was in the midst of piling up a double-digit first-quarter
deficit. "I'm not asking for preferential treatment. All I'm
asking is that my guys are afforded the same calls the other team
is getting. That's all I've eve asked for.
"I understand the nature of this beast. I realize that there are
perceptions about teams and players, about who should and should
not get certain calls. But that's not right."
Woodson pointed to the free-throw attempts of Hawks co-captain
Joe Johnson, one of just four players in the league to average
20 points and six assists — Allen Iverson, LeBron James and
Dwyane Wade are the others — as some evidence of his case. All
four players have the ball in their hands a majority of the time
their teams are on offense. Iverson is second in the league to
Kobe Bryant with 655 free-throw attempts. Wade ranks third with
500 attempts and James ranks sixth with 476. Johnson, meanwhile,
has just 237 attempts, not even half of James' total. Both Zaza
Pachulia (290) and Al Harrington (288) have shot more free throws
this season than Johnson.
"To me, that's it in a nutshell," Woodson said. "He doesn't get
any calls. When he's driving to the basket guys have their hands
all over him and there's nothing called. It doesn't make sense."
Monday, Woodson got a tongue-lashing and technical foul from
Stafford for asking a question, minus a venomous tone or the
use of expletives, with 2:32 to play in the first quarter.
At the time the Hawks were on the short side of an 8-2 ledger
in fouls called against. The gap was 32-23 in the Bucks' favor
by game's end — the Bucks made as many free throws (21-for-30)
as the Hawks attempted (17-for-21).
"I don't care what the numbers say I'm telling you we're getting
screwed," said second-year Hawks forward Josh Smith, who was
floored twice on hard fouls Monday, the second a flagrant foul
when Bobby Simmons upended him on a fast break. "We play hard
and I think we deserve the same calls anybody else gets. We play
aggressive on both ends of the floor.
"We don't get that respect on the defensive end because every
time we touch somebody it's a foul. Then we go out there on the
offensive end and get hacked and it's not a foul. Anybody can see
that something is not right."
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