Woodson looking for a few good calls By SEKOU SMITH The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Published on: 03/15/06 New York — Hawks coach Mike Woodson has been on both sides of this battle, the feud between NBA referees and head coaches looking for an edge. While an assistant with Detroit during its title-winning season two years ago, Woodson knows that team was the beneficiary of the benefit of the doubt while playing inferior opponents. During his trying, 143-game tenure with the Hawks he's seen how the other half lives. Night after night, seemingly regardless of the opponent, he said his team gets on the wrong side of the game officials. "Something's got to be done about this," a worn out Woodson said after Monday night's loss to Milwaukee, a game in which he incurred the wrath of lead official Derrick Stafford as his team was in the midst of piling up a double-digit first-quarter deficit. "I'm not asking for preferential treatment. All I'm asking is that my guys are afforded the same calls the other team is getting. That's all I've eve asked for. "I understand the nature of this beast. I realize that there are perceptions about teams and players, about who should and should not get certain calls. But that's not right." Woodson pointed to the free-throw attempts of Hawks co-captain Joe Johnson, one of just four players in the league to average 20 points and six assists — Allen Iverson, LeBron James and Dwyane Wade are the others — as some evidence of his case. All four players have the ball in their hands a majority of the time their teams are on offense. Iverson is second in the league to Kobe Bryant with 655 free-throw attempts. Wade ranks third with 500 attempts and James ranks sixth with 476. Johnson, meanwhile, has just 237 attempts, not even half of James' total. Both Zaza Pachulia (290) and Al Harrington (288) have shot more free throws this season than Johnson. "To me, that's it in a nutshell," Woodson said. "He doesn't get any calls. When he's driving to the basket guys have their hands all over him and there's nothing called. It doesn't make sense." Monday, Woodson got a tongue-lashing and technical foul from Stafford for asking a question, minus a venomous tone or the use of expletives, with 2:32 to play in the first quarter. At the time the Hawks were on the short side of an 8-2 ledger in fouls called against. The gap was 32-23 in the Bucks' favor by game's end — the Bucks made as many free throws (21-for-30) as the Hawks attempted (17-for-21). "I don't care what the numbers say I'm telling you we're getting screwed," said second-year Hawks forward Josh Smith, who was floored twice on hard fouls Monday, the second a flagrant foul when Bobby Simmons upended him on a fast break. "We play hard and I think we deserve the same calls anybody else gets. We play aggressive on both ends of the floor. "We don't get that respect on the defensive end because every time we touch somebody it's a foul. Then we go out there on the offensive end and get hacked and it's not a foul. Anybody can see that something is not right." 資料來源 http://www.ajc.com/hawks/content/sports/hawks/stories/0315hawks.html --

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