NBA / Aug 27, 2008 / 8:37 am

Jose Calderon Thinks Spain Would Have Won Under FIBA Rules

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“This is not the time to speak of officiating,” says Jose Calderon, “but I think with the FIBA rules we would have won. That is why we are a little annoyed, because we were right there at the finish line and we have just missed out.”

There are a couple of issues with Calderon’s monster asterisk. First, weren’t they playing under FIBA rules? In 2010, FIBA is changing the dimensions of the international court so that they’re basically the same as the NBA’s. But during the Beijing Games, the rules were virtually the exact same as they’ve been for years.

So, to what rule changes exactly is Calderon referring? There have been no specific rule changes that came into effect prior to the Olympics per se, however there has been a perceived difference in the way the rules have been interpreted by referees, in the eyes of many observers. These differences mainly centre around travelling violations, charge/block calls, carrying violations and continuation on shooting fouls.

And now that Calderon flew off the cuff about Spain winning gold if some ambiguous rule changes were or weren’t made, how do you think he’s going to be received in the NBA community? Before saying anything, he would have definitely gotten respect from Team USA for being part of a Spanish team that gave them a real test. But now?

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  • w

    “when there are only 100 players out of 400 that can play,”

    lol and those other 300 would wreck your leagues…

  • Timmy D

    As a Grizz fan i love seeing everyone complaining about Spanish players so much. We had to deal with a crying Spaniard for 7 years but nobody really knew about it b/c I mean im realistic and nobody but Memphis fans care about the Grizzlies. They wine all the time and he gave more reasons why we weren’t better and what needed to be done so he could be better.

    A local Radio guy wrote a song about Pau’s crying could fit for Caledron too I guess.

    http://www.zshare.net/audio/907671b3379f/

  • http://BigTmusic.com Balla

    Calderon is right!!!! Cuz if they were playing with NBA rules and players were allowed to have 6 fouls before they foul out, that game would have been another mutt session like the last meeting was.

  • Kevin

    Calderon is my favourite player, but that comment was lame, especially from a guy that was injured and couldn’t play, and I’m not even American so there’s no bias here.

  • Dagomar Degroot

    When Jose played, they lost by 37.

    He should keep his mouth shut.

  • http://GEE2.com GEE…Make my funk the p-funk

    Spain lost!

  • Coop

    the sad thing is some guys on here have chosen to make this a race issue when needless to say race is irrelevant here, unlike the spainish team picture thing that has been referenced. grow up.

  • Ansonious

    @ dime office I’m wondering if any of these people who are listing themselves as Ricky Rubio, David Stern, etc… Are they the actual people or just some losers having imaginary conversations with each other? No disrespect I’m a fan too.

  • Jeronimo

    To all Calderon haters: Y’all would love to have him in your team, and you know it, so stop it.

    Moving on to what he said, something got a bit lost in translation, methinks: he means that the refs just didn’t call violations (mainly travelling, the way I see it) made by US players in situations where, under the FIBA rules that are meant to be applied at the Olympics, they should be called.

    I think the man has a point there. Now, to say that Spain would have won if the refs had been stricter, that might be a bit too much.

  • josh

    he was right. all the blacks on team uSA were cussing all game long and getting bs calls. Lebron sure sucked when he couldn’t bowl guys over and get the call. It’s clear that Spain was more skilled. This just proves Lebron isn’t even close to a top 5 player.

    Plus you had the bogus Carmelo 3 free throws when he got blocked vs Argentina.

  • Phileus

    Hahaha, if you have someone like josh from post #60 supporting you, I think you have to realize that your opinion is wrong.

  • http://karanmadhok.blogspot.com karan

    josh: “he was right. all the blacks on team uSA were cussing all game long and getting bs calls…”
    now why does colour have to be mentioned as part of the team usa’s whining? this is just fueling the fire to the racist/ignorant stereotype that the spanish now have.

  • josh

    because black people get away with murder all the time

  • Mark

    He’s good, but rather likes pouting. Great showing of sportsmanship.

  • Cedric

    first of all I thought NBA officiating was horrendous untill I saw some FIBA officiating. I blind donkey can ref better than FIBA refs

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