Fixed? Where did that come from? the officials might suck, but that doesn't mean fix!
I don't know guava_wrench, I feel like the officials are being treated like Rodney Dangerfield, they get no respect. We all complain about the NBA refs and how terrible they are, and the International refs are pretty much the opposite of the NBA refs, so if the NBA Officials suck, and the International officials are the opposite, I would think the International refs are good. If the International refs suck too, are there any refs that don't suck?
In my opinion, the International refs are much better than those in the NBA: no star calls, and I feel they call the game more consistently across the board for all teams and players. There is problems with officiating crews being made up of different refs from different countries (I like my officiating crew to be able to communicate with each other while working a game, thank you), and of course as someone else pointed out there are problems with corruption (but have we really seen this in basketball since 1972 which was 36 years ago?). Some people might think the international ref's suck because they're used to seeing the star calls, and when a US player drives the lane and doesn't get that NBA-star-player-bail-out call they think the refs suck. I don't know, I personally wouldn't say the International refs suck, they just call the game differently. They do call it (more) consistently though, which goes a long way towards not sucking in my book.
