Little boy, when is your quinceanera? Good luck with your Fortnight addiction; the only medicine you need is your triumphant human spirit!
It wasn't that Foster had a personal agenda against the Rockets. Yes, he has a history with CP3 that's well documented. But the real reason for all those non-calls was because the LEAGUE has an agenda favoring the Warriors. Why do you think Foster, one of the worst refs in the NBA, is assigned to the biggest game of the postseason? Because he's a company man who will do the league's bidding and ensure the Warriors win the game and advance to the Finals thus guaranteeing better ratings(albeit over fewer games since the Warriors will win in 4 or 5). This is why I'm close to quitting on the NBA. It's not because of bad officiating. It's because the league is doing all of this on purpose. Kings-Lakers was a blatant screwjob that everyone still talks about to this day. Well that was 16 years ago and nothing has changed in the interim. Certain teams and players still get favorable treatment. And referees with agendas and reputations are constantly assigned to playoff games where you practically know the outcome even before the opening tip. What's the point of supporting a product like that?
No matter how you want to blame the refs; we can't expect to have three starters making 5 of 33 from behind the arc and win. It doesn't get much worse than that, we died by the 3.
We would've made a lot, lot more than that if GSW actually had to respect our drives to the basket. They knew they could reach in and hack all they wanted and wouldn't get called for a foul, so they played up right in our shooters' faces and ignored everything else. On top of that, the refs intentionally killed our momentum and killed our rhythm. Shooting is about confidence and the horrible lopsided officiating took any confidence our guys could have had.
I would not expected but . .. . . had it not been for the Refs. . .that is exactly what would have happened Rocket River
its a story line the average person and media can run away with after the fact bc it takes away from what really happened. thats the pathetic part
The media can use half a dozen stats to justify the outcome of this rigged game. The Rockets had 5-6 turnovers in the first quarter, many of which were careless(like that Tucker inbounds no one was looking for that led to an open Curry 3). They missed a bunch of free throws(although so did the Warriors). They missed layups. None of this changes the fact that horrible officiating impacted the game. Was it the sole reason for the Rockets' loss? Of course not. But it was still a major factor. We can point out in the 2002 Kings-Lakers WCF that had Sactown secured that defensive rebound at the end of Game 4, Horry never gets off that 3-pointer to steal the game and even the series 2-2. We could also cite all the missed free throws by the Kings in Game 7 that allowed it to go to overtime where the Lakers edged them out 112-106. Does that somehow mitigate the Game 6 4th quarter screwjob where the Lakers got 27 free throws and barely eeked out a win to force a Game 7? Hell no.
that 1st half had the better team playing actually winning. everything changed once the refs got themselves involved to impact the game in that 3rd quarter. ive seen alot following this game for so long and last night was absolutely pathetic to me and as bad as youll see a game officiated to give a team a boost
Carl Landry, our own player got shot in Houston and the refs come out unscathed? Not saying anything, just making an observation.
If you go in ESPN the headline sites Cavs vs Warriors should be appreciated. Lol. The writers can’t even spin a better story than that. Like... whoa what a dynasty! It’s like they’re trying to make a justification why people should watch the finals. This is the END of the finals. It’s unwatchable... like politics.
People that keep saying "but they missed 27 shots blah blah blah", clearly you have no idea how impactful consistent bad calls can be from a mental aspect. Completely obliterating a team's momentum with bad calls is why we missed all those shots imo. Every time a bad call occurred, the Warriors were able to capitalize and cut the lead causing the Rockets to shoot more desperately every time.
We absolutely should have. Shoot 1% from 3 and lost by 9. I thought MDA should have played fresh legs a bit more yesterday. When the WIDE open shots were no where close, I was thinking play green and iso joe more.
The reason why we are all saying something about the refs is our team cannot sustain their momentum when the refs call bad calls on blatant things so one sidedly. Its not the 50/50 calls its getting clobbered play after play. As far as the threes go the rox where trying to stick to the game plan of getting as many of them up because they didnt have the confidence that if they took it to the hole they would get to the freethrow line. Look at all that went wrong if the rockets just hit 3 or 4 of those 3's its a different outcome. They need to refine their strategy not abandon it and get better at getting easier midrange opportunities and some bigman buckets. A guy like brendan Wright or speights could go a long way in getting some high percentage shots when the game gets tight
What I always come back to is that the NBA is the only major sport I'm aware of in which fans are so aware of particular refs and their tendencies that they'll actually dread or cheer them being involved in the games (I know the names of some refs in other sports like football, but I can't recall ever thinking, "Oh crap, so-and-so is the ref, the team's screwed now..." Maybe I just don't pay enough attention?). NBA refs are known to be egotistical and even look to involve themselves in the games, as if fans ever pay to see refs as part of the show ("Ha, I did so love it when Joey Crawford made his presence known!"). That is simply a travesty and yet it's been accepted for decades. The only occasion aside from Donaghy I can remember a crooked ref being disciplined was when Jake O'Donnell (why the $#!% do I still remember this douchebag's name? Why did I ever know it in the first place?) tried to torpedo the Rockets 95 run by ejecting Clyde from a road playoff game because of a personal vendetta. There's just something bent about the entire process.
Nice. Should have seen that expired homophobia coming from your troll ass a mile away. Go away and grow up.
Refs were horrible. That blatant moving screen that Bell put on Harden to free up Steph was the icing on the cake. If they are not going to call that then the Rockets should have went into hard fouling Steph. Play dirty if you have to.
