LeBron said<\/a>,\u00a0\u201cand then in the postseason, they let the s*** go, and it takes you two or three, four playoff games, if you\u2019re lucky, to adjust. It\u2019s like, what are we doing?\u201d<\/p>\n\u201cYou go September through mid-April of \u2018this is how it\u2019s going to be called,\u2019 and then boom, it completely changes. It\u2019s a different sport, man.\u201d<\/p>\n
LeBron\u2019s Lakers always seem to be at the top of the league when it comes to free throw attempts, so a relaxed playoff whistle doesn\u2019t do him any favors. He\u2019s not wrong in wanting some consistency, though. After all, if the NBA wants the playoffs officiated more loosely, why wouldn\u2019t that also be the best way to do it in the regular season?<\/p>\n
Offensive efficiency is at an all-time high, and for all but the very best defenses, there\u2019s simply not much that can be done to stop some of the best scorers and the most potent offensive attacks in the game. The playoffs provide a more even playing field since defenders can get away with more, and as a result, scores tend to come down. Seeing a team fall short of 100 points is rare in the regular season, but it usually happens plenty in the playoffs.<\/p>\n
LeBron and Nash covered many other sides of the refereeing coin on this episode, from talking about the gather step to ball-handlers extending their off arm. They also covered how the rules have changed over the years, and LeBron gave an example<\/a> from a Lakers-Spurs game of a call that was egregiously overlooked. For anyone looking for some honest insight into the state of the league\u2019s officiating, this was a great episode.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Today\u2019s NBA players have a lot to worry about. They have to get themselves in peak physical shape…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":651197,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[7,185,11412,6,73658,11],"class_list":["post-651196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba-playoffs","tag-basketball","tag-lebron-james","tag-mind-the-game-podcast","tag-nba","tag-nba-officiating","tag-nba-playoffs"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116205866770444175","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=651196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651196\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/651197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=651196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=651196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=651196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}