Rockets have been researching refs and how they are calling games

Good now time to sent it to the nba and complain. Just like the warriors did against the clippers. Send them the tapes

 

Right now we have slight media favor. We need to capitalize on that, and here’s how:

Stop complaining about EVERY missed call. Of course we can complain about the egregious ones like the closeouts, but we cannot complain about every ticky tack thing. If we play through the majority of missed calls, I truly believe we can win over casual fans. A lot of people are tired of seeing warriors win. If we win these people over with hard nosed, gritty basketball, we can have them rooting for us. And the more people that root for us the better. The NBA will be more incentivized to let us win and they will back off on the reffing disparity.

But it starts with our complaining. If casual fans see us complain about literally every missed call, justified or not, it is a really bad look. These fans won’t side with whiners. We need to tough it out.

As a former player it’s extremely difficult to do this. But winning a championship is extremely difficult in and of itself. The road to the ship will never be easy. This is one of the biggest hurdles for this team imo. We need to win over the casual populace.

 

lol every single player in NBA FLOPS.. EVERY SINGLE ONE

 

i dont feel sad i feel justified and PROUD of my rockets ...they SHOWED UP and they WON last night, as far as skills demonstrated, effort and play 5 X 5 on the basketball field is concerned.

cant blame them nor be said because they arent good at politics. The basketball isnt meant to be played 5 vs 8. The rigging of the game is the NBA admitting ROCKETS ARE BETTER, because if they werent refs wouldnt be helping the worriers so egregiously.

 

It's such a sad and embarrassing narrative that's going on right now. The refs are purposely calling the game in favor of the Warriors to win game 1 for some strange reason, the league will be better for it. I don't see how helping the Warriors win is helping the NBA. Every neutral nba fan WANTS the Rockets to win. We are all sick of the Warriors. Why do you even watch these games if you know beforehand that the league is rigged.

 

Yes it starts there... AND as I said in another thread , we can't flop .

All the good will we build up among "casual" fans will be obliterated in an instant the second harden embellishes contact .

 

We should of known from the start of the season when this happened.

 

Man the trolls are out in full force.

 

I think you have a fundamental misunderstanding of the article. I'm not going to get into the secondary pissing match that got this thread off the rails. Anyhow, imo, it's clear that the article is stating that the NBA's own data of missed calls based on slo-mo instant replay and their own interpretation of the rules returned this incorrect FTA disparity. I don't get what you mean when you write "we don't know how Morey counted." Isn't that straight forward? He added all the missed calls from the NBA reports that the league gave to him. Again, if the article is accurate, then we're not talking about the Rockets' own reviews of the game film. We're talking about internal official NBA reports given to the teams by the NBA. It's fair to argue the credibility of the article if that's your point, but I honestly think you're just misreading or not comprehending what was written, with all due respect.

 

Huh? Doesn't wanting the Rockets to win mean they are not neutral?

Reasons for the league to favor a given team:
--image of the league (Steph is so cute and not-scary)
--merchandising and TV rights
--gambling (not the league per se, but there is money riding on these games)

 

Damn, you've got the NBA all figured out dont you?

 

Do you? What were you posting about again? Don't bail on your own argument now. Courage!

 

Actually, your right. The league is rigged.

 

Empty the clip, Morey.

 

They counted potential infractions as lost points, which is a pretty bullshit way of tallying up their lost points. Also, what kind of data driven team says that they would have made the finals if not for missed calls, while not recognizing that even one of those calls being changed would have changed everything that came after that call?

 

You’re right. It changes the rest of the game. Warriors players would be in deeper foul trouble or would be forced to change their strategy.

For example, take Thompson last night. If they called fouls on his close outs one of two things would have happened:

1. Thompson would stop closing out like that and Harden would have a better chance to make the shots.

2. Thompson would foul out and we’d have more free throw opportunities.

Both of these things would have benefited us and resulted in a better situation for the rockets.

 

Not only that...but it would expose at the very least that the league doesn't do much to correct them...making them complicit through lack of action, if not outright instigators.

The other sports do the same thing, BUT use the data to change how their officials officiate. There is a reason only the NBA (well, and until recently, soccer) suffer from these constant conspiracy theories. Because (as there was in soccer) there most likely IS a conspiracy.

 

Agree, but actually think the Rockets have gotten a LOT better at this. But, at some point, it becomes death by a thousand cuts, and every next cut reminds you of the previous thousand as well.

 

You know when you go back and look at the buzzer beater Harden hit on them during the season it’s completely obvious Green got away with another landing area foul there.

 

Positive part of this is we have the data and now not only us complaining about the refs callls but the whole media. Most of them agreeing even if it was just 4 or 3 of the fouls we should have gotten some but we got none. Refs messed that up. If they have given us at least 2 calls my guess it would have been the same as last season and the media wouldn’t have debated this topic.

Now we have the data and media and refs will have to call at least half the calls.