You have to be blind to see K-Mart wasn't getting ANY calls at all at the beginning third of the season, which ****ed his game up mentally. I'm not a being conspiracy theorist, it's probably a mix of both. It's not black and white.
That was a leaguewide thing as well, cutting back on the ripthroughs and jumping into guys. Maybe it's been poorly and sporadically enforced, but...yeah, I didn't say officiating was good, just that Stern doesn't give a damn about personally trying to make Houston lose games.
dam...what kind of defense was that? Millsap went by like 4 Rockets get it down to 2 and now its back to 6 15 secs later. ugh.
I can see how Rockets were probably used the ideal example for refs to base the new rule on. Between Martin and Scola.