[Hieronymus]

Hull was the Fever player that was wearing an active mic during the game for the telecast. She was quite "vocal" after the throw-down non-foul. 

To my nonexpert eye, the WNBA refs are maybe the worst of all US pro leagues. They just don't see things that appear quite obvious on tv - for example, the Hull throw-down - and when the coaches invoke the replay requests, the refs then take forever to look at the video and make up their minds. The telecast cuts to commercial break and even after that, the refs are still pondering.

Truthfully WNBA officiating is so bad it makes replay pointless. They will spend 5 minutes on an obvious replay and still get it wrong. All it does is slow down the game.

And unfortunately, the Fever are very vulnerable to the officials. They aren’t that big and they need to run. A wrestling match like game 3 and they are doomed. Of course the biased officiating doesn’t help either.

Even deeper though the whole league looks incompetent much of the time. Say for example inventing a player safety lane from thin air. It will be interesting to see if a new commissioner is allowed to do better.

[Hieronymus]

Hull was the Fever player that was wearing an active mic during the game for the telecast. She was quite "vocal" after the throw-down non-foul. 

To my nonexpert eye, the WNBA refs are maybe the worst of all US pro leagues. They just don't see things that appear quite obvious on tv - for example, the Hull throw-down - and when the coaches invoke the replay requests, the refs then take forever to look at the video and make up their minds. The telecast cuts to commercial break and even after that, the refs are still pondering.

Truthfully WNBA officiating is so bad it makes replay pointless. They will spend 5 minutes on an obvious replay and still get it wrong. All it does is slow down the game.

And unfortunately, the Fever are very vulnerable to the officials. They aren’t that big and they need to run. A wrestling match like game 3 and they are doomed. Of course the biased officiating doesn’t help either.

Even deeper though the whole league looks incompetent much of the time. Say for example inventing a player safety lane from thin air. It will be interesting to see if a new commissioner is allowed to do better.