http://official.nba.com/referee-assignments/ Danny Crawford (#43) Marc Davis (#8) Brian Forte (#45) Alternate: Tom Washington (#49)
I know you guys want some stats behind the assignments! It doesn't look favorable if you want a game with more whistles. The CLE/TOR game would have been a much better crew for us. San Antonio slowed us down in game two by closing in on shooters and playing physical (aka shoving & pushing) in the paint to go along with Gasol & LMA's length. Game one saw 10 more total fouls called and a whopping 30 more free throws. Given that the Spurs played even more physical than game one, how the game is called plays a big factor. I'd like to see the Rockets come out with physical defense of their own. As far as the assignments go, we got three refs who just don't call many fouls. With that said, they do tend to call more fouls on the road team (less calls means more variance). Even with more home calls, the home winning percentages are lower. Measuring by weighted average, this crew is going to call about 2 less fouls per game than the crew assigned to the Cleveland/Toronto game. Stats and sources below! Series Summary Fouls Committed Game 1: Houston: 25 Fouls San Antonio: 18 Fouls Total: 43 FoulsGame 2: Houston: 15 Fouls San Antonio: 18 Fouls Total: 33 Fouls Free Throw Attempts: Game 1: Houston: 27 FTA San Antonio: 36 FTA Total: 63 FoulsGame 2: Houston: 15 FTA San Antonio: 18 FTA Total: 33 FTA Game 3 HOU/SAS Officials Summary Foul Calls per Game (Regular Season) Dan Crawford: 39.3 in 59 games as MAIN (51.4% road team vs 48.6% home team). Marc Davis: 37 in 24 games as CREW (52.9% road team vs 47.1% home team) Brian Forte: 38.8 in 60 games as CREW (51.5% road team vs 48.5% home team)Total Fouls: 115.1 Total Games Officiating at Position: 143 Crew Average: 38.3 Fouls Per Game Crew Average weighted by games officiated: 38.7 Fouls Per Game Home winning records: Crawford: 37-31 Davis: 36-36 Forte: 42-26Total: 115 - 93 Home winning percentage: 0.552 Comparing this to the other crew officating tonight: Game 3 CLE/TOR: Fouls Called per Game Mike Callahan: 41.8 in 60 games as MAIN (50.9 road v 49.1 home) Kane Fitzgerald: 41.1 in 64 games as CREW (50 / 50) Bill Kennedy: 38.4 in 44 games as CREW (52.2 road vs 47.8 home)Total: 121.3 Total Games Officating at Position: 168 Crew Average: 40.4 Fouls Per Game Crew Average weighted by games officiated: 40.6 Fouls Per Game Home winning records: Callahan: 38-30 Fitzgerald: 43-29 Kennedy: 41-30Total: 122 - 89 Home winning percentage: 0.578 SOURCES: http://www.nbastuffer.com/referee_stats http://www.oddsshark.com/nba/referee-handicapping-statistics
Absolute nightmare crew for Harden and Lou. 13 total foul calls in a half. TOR/CLE crew got their weighted average foul calls at 41. It's gonna get chippy soon.
no student of the game can watch this bullshit and not come to the conclusion that this league is a rigged farce
Wat kind offfense is that? Harden hold the damn ball for 12 seconds, move the ball, everybody just standing there watches
Even with some intentional fouls they totaled 35. Swallowed whistles means a loss for us. I'll do another analysis when we get the next ref lineup. The stats predicted how the flow of this game was going to go.
