Bennett Salvatore and his crew doing work (Hawks @ Celtics - 01.11.10)

[chitownref]

The flagrant was a good call.The travel you say is so obvious is NOT by NBA rule a travel jackass.The out of bounds call was close and the next play was a push on the Celtic player. Ill give you the moving screen and from this shitty video there is no way to tell who touched the ball last. That was a foul on the 3 point shot & why should the refs penalize the offense by calling a tick tack foul where no disadvantage took place?The only obvious thing here is you DON'T KNOW SHIT ABOUT OFFICIATING!

[fisher704]

this sucks, look how they r doing now

[chritz2711]

By nba rules, that is NOT a Horvord travel

[chitownref]

@chritz2711 You are exactly right. That was not a travel, what's obvious is this poster's lack of rules knowledge.

[EvanConover]

Nice video, and Salvatore is a fucking terrible referee, but I didn't see a problem with most of these. Rondo tripped and Scalabrine got arm on that block. That last one with Pierce and Rondo fouling not called was atrocious. The one with Horford probably should have been whistled traveling, but the refs let him get away with a technicality of not having complete possession of the ball when he clearly faked it.

[mskotko]

Im sure you are a celtics fan so you can not get mad about when someone steals the ball and there is a no call......Rondo is the leading the NBA in steals because he reaches in grabbing all sorts of body parts and the ref never blows the whistle.

[alextotherescue]

@mskotko Obviously, you do not watch many Celtics games and HOW he gets the steals. Stop being ignorant and realize that the refs in the NBA are the worst referrees of all sports.

[Hotty6969]

@alextotherescue then do something about it

become a ref and do it right

if you hate them that much

[jagerbomb55]

Rondo tripped - no one touched him dude.

[tybceo25]

First one is a flagrant lol

He grabbed him by the face and pulled him down. Regardless if it was on accident

[WHSSHHS2008]

Bennett Salvatore is easily the worst official in the NBA right now. And I mean worse than Crawford and Javie COMBINED. Crawford hates the Spurs, Javie hates the Lakers, Salvatore hates EVERYONE. Every game he officiates he gives off an aura of trying to prove his "Manliness." Dude, just mediate the game, that's what your job is. If your personal biases interfere with your job, then this is not a job you should be doing.

[chitownref]

First off the slo-mo you did trying to show a travel proves that you are wrong, that was not a travel, second the video quality and the angle make it impossible to tell whose leg the ball went off. Third the angle again is impossible to tell if that was a foul on the 3 pointer. Now im the first to say NBA refs are horrible at times or maybe influenced is a better word but I will say go put on the stripes and try to do this at full speed n see how many things u dont get right after seein a replay

[Lana2k6]

Bennett Salvatore and Joe Crawford need to retire. Seriously.

[aiden30340]

that doesn't make sense, why would the NBA help a low market team like the hawks? and the first half was in the celtics favor, and every boston fan knows it. I know your not whining but stop acting like victims, the hawks have been screwed in some games too like when the officials didn't reset the shot clock in a cavs game after an air ball and left the hawks with a 10 second possession.

[ed5275]

I 6think Tommy Heinsohn posted this video.

[jacccek]

football referees more often makes mistakes and changes results of matches.

i think that replays for referees are only one way to bring justice to sport.

sorry for my english.

[Drucci09]

Kiorrik, I wrote "If you're the Hawks" to say "that night, in that game, if you were the Hawks, you were sure to benefit from calls/non-calls", etc.

But was probably a bad choice of words in english, so thanks for the correction. Funny to see you on Youtube too, always a pleasure. :D

[QfromKS1959]

Wow! I think Johnny Most just rolled ovah in his grave.

I am disgusted by the putrid, yellow officiating in this game.

[Czheckyofacts]

i dont like the celtics and it looked like a skrew job to me

[deadlyjc3x]

thank you

[Kiorrik]

Good job, Drucci, but I think "if you're the Hawks" is rather aimed at the Hawks, rather than at the refs. Would have rather seen it as "right here the refs failed at this and that call" or something like that ;)

I'll TP ya up elsewhere buddy haha :D

- Kiorrik / Dirk

[xmuscularghandix]

this really was the worst officiated game i've seen in a very long time

[axhfan]

You haven't watched a lot of games, have you?

[hocje]

Thanks for this great video, every Celtics fan should watch this

[Oriolesnn9]

great video, way to stick up for Doc, he didn't deserve that game fixed bogus call.

[sexyscottish]

Great video PROVING the refs fucked Boston yet again.

[ragstoriches919]

excellent video

[tb516]

Very well done!!!