You're missing the entire point. Whether they had EVERYTHING to do with it or very little, in the end they affected the result. PERIOD. That. Shouldn't. Ever. Happen. It's not supposed to be WWE.
If you really think the refs rigged this game then you have to admit that they did the same thing for games 2, 4 and 5... we shot way more FTs than the warriors in those games and won.
ABSOLUTELY affected the outcome....watched game twice. With CP3 hurt, that leaves us basically Jimmy and EGO. Again, of our 16 fouls..14 were called on our starters, with 8 on Jimmy & EGO(4 each)....MEANWHILE, 6 of the Warriors 17 fouls were called on starters and 11 on nonstarters. Thug Green had TWO and ONE each for the other 4 starters.For an entire ball game,our starters fouled at a 3 to 1 rate with us attacking the basket and GS firing up 3's....RIGHT,RIGHT ! Anyone want to take bets on our players constantly chest bumping Curry, Thompson or Durant and there being no whistle? Unfortunately, don't believe this will change...officiating has been biased for GS in every game. BTW...it's not how many fouls are called, it's WHO they are called on and WHEN....noticed when the scrubs came in the refs starting calling a "regular" game.
Officiating is one-sided, but it's not worse than King-Lakers series in 2002. If we could stop the wide open threes by Steph and Klay in Q3 we would have won anyway but we were obviously gassed.
Everyone is enamored by the 3's Golden State made - and they likely would've won as a result - but we have to be allowed to dribble on our side of the floor without constant contact, or else we'd ..... oh yeah, only score like 10 points in the 2nd half.
Yeah losing by that much; the best argument one can make is that we let the refs affect our game and momentum.
Indeed, 'tis me. Good call. You're right on the backcourt violation. Fair points. I considered this route, but ultimately included the more borderline/subjective calls (along with the more egregious), as we seemed to be getting the short end on the strong majority. But definitely several subjective ones in here. Many of the KD examples could be considered perfectly valid in a vacuum, but the consistency on both ends just wasn't there. Fully agree with this viewpoint. During the Warriors 3rd quarter run especially, there were plenty of botched defensive switches & sloppy turnovers from the Rockets that accompanied what could be considered unfavorable officiating. Could our play have been much sharper on both ends of the court? Absolutely. But to say that the officiating wasn't at all impactful is a very short-sighted view, imo. As many have alluded in this thread, momentum & flow are huge -- especially for a team like the Warriors who will really begin rolling once they have momentum and a lead. IMO, most Rockets players mentally checked-out pretty early in the 4th between the 11:00 - 9:00 mark of the quarter when we fell from a 7 to 12 point deficit. Everything from there was a snowball effect to balloon the final deficit up to 29.
They sure disrupt our offensive ang defensive rhythm. Harden dribbling the ball and you hear the whistle and its offensive foul. So much for play-off physicality. he's not even allowed to protect himself from his defender. his defender got confident because even if he is bodying harden he wont get call for a foul and yet if harden try to use his free hand to get away lol offensive foul. wtf. And yet on warriors part you accidentally tap durant you get a foul. if its not blatantly obvious everytime the refs whistle whether we are on the offensive or defensive end the crowds cheers. like they know the foul is on us. Even our players thought the foul is on them. Like what do we do now kind of reaction everytime there is a whistle. if the game wasnt taht important i would be laughing like watching a comedy and a tragedy play. It sucks but what can we do?
The refs effected Harden who frankly is too caught up in drawing fouls but otherwise the refs had no effect on the Rockets leaving GS players wide open in the 4th quarter.
If you know the game is rigged like Gordon realized if you saw him right before he shot those FTs, your mind would be on anything but the hoop. The Rockets quit immediately at that point. You could see him talking to Harden. See how distraught Gordon is in the plays before that and during. Harden was laughing after the game. This is something everyone saw. The Rockets scored 39pts in the 1st, 22 in the 2nd, 16 in 3rd, 9 in 4th. It's not a secret. You are only making this point because you don't want to believe it and the truth is not acceptable. Games have been rigged before and it has been proven legally and this one was without a doubt. The Rockets quit in the late 3rd. If you have 50 calls on every series going against you then there is no point fighting to the basket knowing the outcome. That is how you lose by 30. There is no difference from losing by 10.
Players on both teams know before ANYONE whether or not the refs are biased or even crooked. If the Warriors are habitually getting away with contact, guess what? They're going to keep playing physical knowing they won't be called. It's a snowball effect. Think about what that does to the team that's on the short end of that stick. It's easy to lay down. That's how the blowout occurred. So anyone saying the officiating was meaningless because of the final score, you're being short-sighted.
the entire point is the ref did not make houston lose. houston did nowhere near enough in the 2nd half to give themselves a chance to win
