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So did you guys see Fred Van Fleet go after Ben Taylor, the referee, and say he was trash?

If you haven't heard it, haven't seen it, definitely

go find it. It's a little old for me to play here. Actually, let's do it. For those who have

missed it, let's start there. I mean, I don't mind. I'll take a fine. I don't really care. I thought,

you know, Ben Taylor was fucking terrible tonight. I thought that most nights, you know, a couple of the, you know, Ben Taylor was fucking terrible tonight.

I thought that most nights, you know, a couple of, you know, out of the three, there's one or two that just fucked the game up, you know.

And it's been like that a couple games in a row.

Denver was tough, obviously.

You come out tonight, you're competing pretty hard.

Third quarter, I get a bullshit tech, change the whole dynamic of of the game change the whole flow of the game and you know most of the rest are trying hard I like a lot of the rest

are trying hard they're pretty fair they communicate well and then you got the

other ones who just want to be dicks and um just kind of fucks the game up nobody's

coming to see that shit they come to see up. Nobody's coming to see that shit. They come to see the players.

Nobody is coming to see that shit. And let's face it, Fred Van Fleet has a reason to be mad.

He said eight technical fouls called against him across seven games. Five of those fouls were in games officiated by Ben Taylor.

His double technical foul game against the Pelicans was also officiated by Ben Taylor.

So two-thirds of his texts came at the hands of Ben Taylor.

Nothing to see here, right? It's like totally ordinary. That's normal.

Well, Luca, Donchich, has 15 texts this year, twice as many almost as Fred Van Fleet.

But no one, no individual ref has called more than two on Luca.

Doesn't it seem a little suspicious?

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