In this year's CBA semifinals, the South Korean referee's blowing penalty was unanimously praised, especially the strict blowing penalty of the opponent's movements, which avoided the appearance of a faint whistle.
But in the finals, Liaoning and Xinjiang's G1, two South Korean referees Park Kyung-jin and Lee Kyung-hwan once again disputed the penalty and were questioned about the home whistle.
The referee of this match is Yang Hongfeng, and the two Koreans are the assistant referees. The results showed that the free throw ratio between Liaoning and Xinjiang was 31-13 in the whole game, and Xinjiang was 18 times behind.
Of course, the difference in free throws does not mean that the referee is biased, and the difference in the offensive play of the two sides will also lead to a difference in the free throws. But some of the controversial decisions in the game really hard not to think about the home whistle.
Xinjiang attacked in a half-court position, Wu Guanxi grabbed the rebound in the front court and immediately chose to make up for the rebound, but Zhao Jiwei cut the ball from behind, obviously hitting Wu Guanxi's arm. As a result, Zhao Jiwei immediately signaled a throw-in, and the referee immediately missed the foul.
The bigger controversy appeared in the second half, first of all, Wigginton was dissatisfied with the penalty, pointing at the referee to complain about eating a technical foul, but the referee Yang Hongfeng did not blow the technical foul, but the South Korean referee on the other side immediately blew the whistle and gave a technical foul mercilessly.
The reason for Wiggington's complaint was that he thought that when he went to the basket, Han Dejun had a foul on the beater, and head coach Qiu Biao also signaled a foul on the sidelines at the time.
At that time, the baseline referee was Yang Hongfeng, who had the best sight, but awarded the throw-in as soon as possible, no wonder Wiggington was so dissatisfied with Yang Hongfeng. The South Korean referee's line of sight was blocked, and he came up to make up for a technical foul at this time, which seemed a little inexplicable.
The biggest controversy of the game appeared when there were 9 minutes and 03 seconds left in the fourth quarter, when Qi Lin defended Fu Hao, and the referee blew Qi Lin's shooting foul. There is a suspicion of obviously delaying the whistle in this ball, in fact, Qi Lin did have a suspicion of foul when he defended Fu Hao behind him, but the referee did not make the first time, but Fu Hao made a shot after that, and the referee blew the whistle. This foul blowing penalty is really far-fetched, and even makes people feel that there is a suspicion of body hair whistle, no wonder Qi Lin will lose control of his emotions and spew angrily.
The most criticized part of the CBA is the home whistle, is the Korean referee also "following the local customs"? The South Korean referees, who were known as law enforcement in the semi-finals, were also blown like this, could they have been "overcome" so quickly? At the beginning, CBA invited them for only one purpose, that is, to be fair and impartial, and now it seems that it has not fully achieved.