Ridiculous statement...His game does not heavily rely on that. I was at the game last night he got took out of the game because the rockets kept denying the ball so he got frustrated and took himself out of it completely. But you don't avg 32 pts a game on 51% shooting just doing that move.
Raw +FTA doesn't tell us anything. Pull out hack a Dwight. Then adjust for the fact we drive to the rim FAR more than the vast majority of teams versus other more jump shooting oriented teams. Then adjust for us running a very fast pace.
Terrible officiated game. but it was hilarious to see Durant get so butthurt when he wasn't getting the normal star calls he is used to, especially the no calls on his rip-thru move.
I agree, I was laughing the whole time he kept doing that ****. Glad he didn't get no calls for that.
Rockets fans are the last to complain about Durant getting calls for rip through moves when Harden gets calls by bumping into guys in the lane and flailing his arms and or cocks his head back. He also sticks his arms out and then looks for the foul rather than make the layup.
i completely agree. we have too many homer fans that don't realize that we have just as many games where the refs help us as the games where they hurt us. it all evens out.
Yea it was funny to see KD just throwing the ball to no man's land hoping to get the whistle on those haha
There definitely was a discrepancy towards the Thunder in the first-half in terms of whistling the Rockets for contact in the paint (whereas the Thunder players were hammering Harden/Lin without calls)... and that evened out as the game went on. I'm more in favor of when refs are consistent for both sides... not skewed towards one, and then course-correcting it as the game goes on. If they were going to let contact go, fine... just call it evenly for both sides (which they weren't).
Yes, they did I used to cry aboaut the refs, but yesterday they won the game for us In the last minutes they call two 3 point fouls (none of then was a clear foul) and then they call foul on Ibaka agains Asik in the last second of the posetionm If those calls comes aganis the rockets, I would cry for a week
He did a piss poor job, like usual.. Look, we're on a message board talking about him and how questionable the calls were, that's what he wanted... It's always about him.
More like the refs tried everything they could to help out the Thunder. I've never heard of a denied out of bounce review at the end of a game requested by a coach before. Nor was there no call when a guy steps in before a free throw shooter releases. Utter bs and if the game is going to be called that way throughout a playoff series the Rockets have no chance. Because the Rox did not get any fouls from blatant hits and drives 80 percent of the time into the paint and the bs calls the Thunder especially Durant get, they had to literally put 3 times the winning effort to win. Rox played with the winning effort of 3 games to win this one compared to the Thunder which is not sustainable in the playoffs.
Chandler and James both got three free throws because of phantom calls, the one that Chandler got was particularly bad. Reggie Jackson was literally about a foot away from him and got called for a foul cause Chandler flopped. But it happens...
Missed a couple of blatant travels, but I think it evened out. Not a well-officiated game, but I still say it was "even."
I can take poorly officiated games as long as they are fair. We should not complain about this one, especially with the obvious baiting by Harden and Parsons later on
Crawford kept trying to be part of the game. He kept slowing it down, and tried getting on tv. There were things that didn't need to be reviewed. They could be seen from the uppers.
