[DeadSpin] The Rockets Are Driving Opposing Coaches Insane

You know how the Warriors got all the calls the last 3 years since they’re the media darling and nba star team? That’s us this year and I like it.

 

Harden isn't doing anything that anyone else can't or doesn't do. He's just better at it.

 

It’s not even remotely close to the treatment that GSW received from media and non calls on the moving screens and holding.

 

media conspiracy

 

Harden's shot was absolutely a shot. Holliday was holding his arm out above Harden, its as simple as not reaching in like that and there will be no foul called. Harden throws those up without contact too. You cannot hold yourself in a stupid defensive position and blame the refs for making you pay for it.

 

Stop trying to slap at James and it wont happen. Promise you, Alvin watched the replay and internally knew that he lossed 15k for nothing. Alvin doing Kerr things just incase of playoff implications.

 

Pop took out Forbes because he was guarding Harden with his hand up in front of James...just saying, Gentry should probably coach better instead of whining about something well known.

 

he was just trying to help Kerr

 

This is dumb. If Harden's shot went into the basket, is this guy saying that it shouldn't count because he wasn't "intending" to shoot the ball?

The shot would absolutely count. Therefore, it's a shot, and the foul was a shooting foul. You don't referee based on intention, you referee based on what friggin' happened.

 

Us point guards are always taught to attack a shot blocker by taking it to the chest of the
shot blocker. Because Harden is 6’5” and Thicc, he gets tagged as the bully.

If defenders kept put their hands vertical, then we wouldn’t have a problem.

 

They aren't a team that goes to the line a lot.

 

If harden wasn't a rocket we would be crying about the call.

 

LOL

 

except harden actual makes shots when he doesn't shoot it with a traditional shooting motion. I bet you anything if the pelicans didn't touch him, the ball would hit the rim.

 

The dude had one hand tuck into his body and the other hand was up but forward toward Harden. That hand was clearly in Harden’s space and Harden went up for the shot and got contact. A simple foul, and people act like players never make plays looking to seek free throws. Pretty ridiculous treatment Harden gets by the media. First was his defense and now his foul seeking plays even though the NBA put in new “Harden rules” this year

 

That's terribull. The reason that shot looked funky is because Harden was trapped in the corner, covered up, and trying to get a shot off to beat the clock. It's obviously not going to be his normal shooting motion. Holiday brought his hand down and made contact - that's not Harden's fault, hence the foul.

 

" I don't know what the NBA can do to eliminate blatant foul-seeking"

That's the problem right there.

You are trying to change the rules because you don't like the results. When what teams should do is not put themselves in a position to foul. There are teams that are well coached that do this. See the Spurs.

 

Harden is one of the best at getting these calls. As CP3 said, that’s a skill....he can’t do what Harden does to get to the line like that. It does do two things though:

1) it creates a league wide narrative that Harden and the Rockets look to cheat or exploit the rules instead of beating the league “straight up”. So it creates a hate for the rockets (probably the same way I hate on the dubs for their illegal screens....but are really good at toeing the line)

2) it feeds the narrative that the rockets can’t suceed in the playoffs because the refs stop calling those and leaves harden frustrated and disengaged in these games where he looks defeated when he doesn’t get the calls anymore.

Winning changes everything. Win the championship and shut everyone up. Until then don’t expect the media to stop the narrative spin.

 

Someone explain the 4 point play the pels got.......

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