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why? I am really curious. some of my friends looks at who is going to be the referee before betting.... does it matter? 
 
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When betting totals i look ate the referees, yes. If the refs are whistle happy, the more likelyhood a match will have more points.
 
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some refs love the underdogs or visiting teams
 
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Quote Originally Posted by initialdwilly:

why? I am really curious. some of my friends looks at who is going to be the referee before betting.... does it matter? 

of course it does!!!  ive looked at that info in the past, its helpful and it is often overlooked..

 
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I would say its one of the more important factors in the NBA, moreso with totals than sides but its still huge.
 
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Crawford still around?  Wasn't he like a under machine?
 
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ask Tim Donaghy
 
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Haha...classic post
 
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Quote Originally Posted by CMJohnson1:

Haha...classic post



 
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pretty much what paradox said.  some refs call more fouls, which means a chance for more points.
 
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Read "person foul"
by Tim Donaghy


 
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refz zebras they n the game way to much fans dont watch games on tvs bars  pay tickets for zebras refs to blow the whistle or throw that flag now even n baseball umps fawkin up calls reguraly itz really got bad n all sports n i told the world games are settin up daily years ago n the official clowns are on the setup to everybody will see n alot of years how many humans settin up games even stern on the hustle on nba refs  u look at there past games n freethrows some call fouls n some cant wait to blow the whistle east coast they let u play on the west coast  u touch them foul
 
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One example:

"The Bulls might have found a way to win in any case, but they got the shift in momentum they needed before the seventh game even began, when the league assigned Jake O'Donnell's officiating crew to the contest. There's no intimation of hanky-panky there--O'Donnell is one of the most respected referees in the league, and it was the only game the crew worked in the series--it's just that he calls a tight, controlled game, no patty fingers, and that suited the Bulls better than it suited the Knicks, and the Bulls knew it.

(It's reported in Sam Smith's Jordan Rules that when O'Donnell was assigned to a game in a similarly hard-fought series between the Bulls and the Philadelphia 76ers last year, Jordan's response was "We win," and of course they did.)

Riley later denied that the referees made a difference, but they clearly gave the Bulls the confidence to attempt to play Bulls basketball again. It had seemed, for a while, that they'd forgotten how"

https://m.chicagoreader.com/chicago/the-sports-section/Content?oid=879761
 
 
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If the Refs control the game, why bet, why watch?

The ref is being watched.

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