Should The Rockets make official protest & have final seconds of Game 1 replayed?

Wouldn't this be bad for the Rockets since they usually shoot a lot of free throws each game? It's part of Harden's game to get to the line.

 

The only way a bad foul call should result in a replay is if the ref clearly ignored a foul so egregiously wrong as to call in question the refs integrity. I struggle to even think of an example. It would have to be something like Lopez punching Howard in the junk right in front of the ref and calling a foul on Howard.

While the foul on Dwight was egregious it doesn't CLEARLY call into question the integrity of the official making the call. That call last night can easily be chalked up to the ref having a bad view of the play.

The simple and most logical solution is one of two things, either (1) have all foul calls in the final 2 minutes of reg/OT be reviewable, or (2) give the coaches 2 challenges of foul calls per game, with unlimited challenges thereafter if the coach doesn't lose a challenge; with the awarding of an additional challenge for OT. I like #2 the best simply because it limits the review time that slows down games. Most coaches would save at least 1 challenge for end of game situations. No doubt McHale would have challenged and won on that call.

 

As they say in MMA, dont leave it to the judges scorecard.

In this close game, 1 wrong call & it wldve swung either. Dont let it be a close game.

 

IDK. It would seem sorta petty. I think they should just re-group and destroy them Wednesday.

 

Which makes it that much bigger of a blown call. Even more of a reason to re-do it.

 

I don't think it should be replayed.

Mistakes will always be there unless you want a million stoppages. It's just part of the game. Sometimes you get some calls sometimes you don't. If you happened to lose because of 1 call then you didn't play well enough to avoid it.

That's the way the cookie crumbles.

 

Is this thread for real? This is embarrassing. Yes, the refereeing was terrible. Yes, we had some crappy calls go against us. But anyone who didn't think we got the benefit of some seriously questionable calls in our favor in the fourth quarter is flat-out not paying attention or is completely unable to look at a game without extreme bias.

 

No, going to move on. They at least admitted one fault among many other masked calls.

Even though they just threw the salt in our faces, I would rather hear it now than after game 7, three years from now.

 

What's funny to me is the fact that major league baseball, yes the same league that takes like 50 years to make minor changes, has a more advanced replay system than the NBA. Seems like almost anything is reviewable in baseball now. Why can't we just get a couple of challenges a game? What is the harm in that?

 

No, I wouldn't for reasons already stated, but man, Portland fans are going to be pissed late Wednesday night, given the refs history for correcting wrongs.

 

Hoping it won't be nearly that close for the calls to matter. Hoping.

 

They should just put in the request to FIRE THE DAMN REFS WHO OFFICIATED THIS GAME !!!, that will set an example for the rest of 'em.

 

**** IT WE'LL DO IT LIVE

 

file for protest which will be denied but at least puts the officials on notice. which should make them call it down the middle causing them to lose the money they have on portland to win the series.

 

Wow. First time to see that video. That hurts just to watch.

 

Even in MLB you can't challenge a judgement call. Everything that you can challenge in baseball is objective (fair/foul, catch/no catch, tag/no tag, etc...). You can't challenge a subjective call such as a ball/strike or a balk. Likewise in the NFL, you can't challenge a subjective call such as holding or pass interference, only objective things like in bounds/out of bounds, catch/no catch, # of players on the field.

 

"It's as if there is no coach out there..." ouch...

 

It's so many post I wanna reply to. Lol ill try to hit them all in one. First off ley me say that I still Bellerive that we will win this series. Second, I understand that the ref's make judgement calls throughout the entire game. ..

The reason why I agree with rthe replay is because this bad call determined the outcome of the game. There is no denying that. The league admitted that Howard should have gotten two frwe throws. We were down by one with the momentum in their hands. One made free throw by Dwight would have changed that. I believe that any instance where I bad call is made that can determine the game "under 24 seconds" one full possession should have the opportunity to be replayed. If it was a min left I honestly would feel diffeeent. If we were down three poins I would feel different. But we were down by one point; in overtime with 10 seconds left. That wrong call undoubtedly changed the outcome of the game. Granted we shouldn't of let it come down to that, it did. And we were left with the short end of the stick, and the league knows it..I want even thinking about the two fts when they calked the bad foul. I jyst wanted the ball...but the fact that we were deprived of two free throws in that stage of the game is just not right


Call it what you want. ... cry baby, whining, whatever. It is what it is.

 

i voted no