Anne Panther is the only woman ref who has officiated in EL Playoffs, but has been strongly criticised in the past for bad game officiating. No team is worried about her absence in this year's play-offs. What is the record with Sreten Radovic? What about Sasa Pukl? Have the refs shown respect to all the star players and equal standards across the league? You are right to ask the question why them again [and not in the regular season]. You are right to ask for public ratings of refs and the need for transparency

The foul criteria also affect the game development. Overall the referees should not become a factor of the game. If they have no visibility and yet interfere it can raise suspincions about the intentions. I would also suggest that requesting that the teams should perform better in order to not be affected by bad ref decisions are unfortunate. Teams's bad performance has an impact on themselves. The question is is there one for refs bad performance? There are more cases that were not mentioned and allowed the 19 pts spread before even the last minutes. In my opininon, in the Mitoglou-Fournier play mentioned, the foul is made by Fournier with leg and knee prior to the shot, but whether this is called depends on the game criteria. It is mentioned that Fall's double travelling wasnt visible in the camera in real time, however the players and coach quickly protested about it. There are 3 refs and the baseline ref should have a clear view. Unfortunately, we don't have challenges for these cases. We never saw in IR whether Fournier's hand is in contact with Sloukas's on the last play, although for sure there is body contact getting in the shooter's cylinder during Sloukas's landing. Vezenkov floats on the corner three flopping to win the +1 and he does. Fall gets in Grant's cylinder and makes him lose his balance before blocking his layup. Nunn is called for 3 easy fould and becomes a non-factor for the game. Bartzokas enters the court to stop an easy basket on ther transition and doesnt get a Technical. Different criteria in the officiating and game management errors are the issues not singular mistakes.

So - this method for financial fair play makes sense to you. Teams with the same budget (say PAO VS Real). - They both have the same budget ($20.5) - PAO with more basketball revenues than Real (tickets, TV rights, sponsors etc), who gets funds from the football team Therefore, the % of the budget funded by its own revenue is higher for Panathinaikos. Nevertheless, PAO would pay $3-6m luxury tax and Real would not pay any luxury tax... The financial fair play should be based on the revenues of the club and how far they can overspent them using external funds (shareholders, non-basketball related funds, governments, .. "unknown sources"). Euroleague should take example from UEFA Leagues and how they manage a very successful product in Europe.

Hi Todd, Donatas was suggestimg something different about the Guduric-Sloukas play. Considering the height of the position Guduric dribbled the ball as well as the speed of the ball, one (incl yourself when the guys shot their video) could say this could be intentional. Hence, it is not an illegal play. I wonder what made you change your view Before the Tarik 3pter at 1:20 Devon Hall is commiting a travelling violation. With regards to the 3pt fouls you mention maybe there were, just not sure that the camera angle is such to validate this. Additionally, the game had bad ref decisions during its whole duration, focusing on the last 2 minutes is as if we shoukd assume it was great before. Thanks