Transparency Gentlemen, Transparency: Basketball belongs to all of us Israel today

The criticisms of the members of the groups about the Judges' Union have unfortunately become routine.

This time it was Hapoel Tel Aviv that was injured in the state cup final, this time Hapoel Holon whose heads were punished for their behavior towards the refereeing team and in recent days Hapoel Haifa has been in the headlines due to its harsh claims of discrimination by referees, she said systematically throughout the season.

In the reviews, and especially in the way they are said, I will touch on them later, but most of my remarks are directed at the judges' union.

It has been a long time since he wrote these lines, raising the need for transparency to a miracle.

Transparency in front of the fans, transparency in front of the players and transparency in front of the teams.

Football is handled wisely and every week a detailed report is published by the professional committee discussing all the borderline refereeing decisions that came up for discussion during the week. This transparency lowers the flames, even in a season when football referees are not at their best Thus anger and frustration are forgotten. At least in part. In addition, the referee report published in football often states that the referees were right in most of those borderline decisions, with detailed reasons.

Danny Franco.

Even Hapoel Tel Aviv are not happy, Photo: Alan Shiber

In conversations I have had in recent years with referees and also with senior officials in the Basketball Referees Association, I raised the need for a dignified, professional, regular and transparent audit report. Better than all of us.However, as long as there is no criticism, and no professional reasoning, the anger and complaints remain the same and even accumulate into anger and frustration that explodes once every few months.

The referees' union explains in their defense that a few years ago they tried to act in a similar way and published the committee's professional conclusions, but whenever they publicly wrote that one of the referees erred, it only increased the flames of fans and teams, and hurt the referees.

I think a reasoned and professional weekly publication, like the one done after the Cup final in February (too bad it only covered the second half), will make order and calm the reviews.

Beyond that, basketball does not belong to anyone private, but to the public, and all entities involved in the industry must be transparent.

We will talk about the transparency required from the groups another time.

Finally, a few words for groups.

The frustration and anger are completely understandable, especially after critical mistakes that prevent a cup win or lead to a playoff loss.

However, it is worth calming down the flames a bit.

I do not think there is a referee who comes from home with an agenda to hurt a particular team or "knock" a specific coach, or alternatively help one team or another.

Transparency is indeed needed and a change is needed in the processes going on in the Judges' Union, but from here to the harsh expressions that have been heard over the past year is a long way off.

We all want the level of refereeing to go up next season, and the only way to do that is through cooperation between the teams and the referees' union and the basketball union.

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