Your right, they would rather foul than let that happen so that's the point. If you go hard in the paint you make the foul a lot more obvious.
So many people choked and McHale was clueless but we lost by one point in a close call? I guess this so call hottest team in Basketball, current NBA championis is just garbage, they need all this variable to bearly hold on to a one point win. I gues once the Spurs face a team with a better coach and player that don't choke they will lose or problably get sweep right?
For a quant jockey your grammatical errors are disturbing. Rockets haven't gotten calls down the stretch in home games quite a bit this year. This is nothing new.
Go f1ck yourself ... blame blame blame ... f1ck you yeah, when I get superstitious at this time of year,,,I also get mean on the internets to ppl like you.
Hurts to hear the truth doesn't it? Missed ft and turnovers are very detrimental to the game. Harden had a subpar game compared to his norm though.
This is what I don't get. If Duncan got his hand on the ball, then why doesn't the shot's trajectory change between these two photos, or even the ball's position relative to Harden's hand?
Nah...it just feels really good to say go f!ck yourself to blaimers we've been through a lot moochie. don't do this.
Exactly right! This is why it's not a block and is a clear foul. If Duncan blocked the bottom of the ball and caused Harden to lose control of the ball, and then inadvertently hit his arm I would not be complaining. But Harden has control of the ball until his arm is hit period.
His fingers "lightly brushed" the ball. It becomes a debate on whether a block is defined as any contact with the ball prior to fouling, or whether a block itself must be the reason the ball didn't make it to the hoop. As we can see from the other poll thread, the first view is narrowly winning. I'm not crying about it. Rockets lost because of 2 quarters of Hack-A-Shaq and 20 turnovers, not because of that play. For once, I do sympathize with the ref on that one.
If our Professional NBA players would just learn to shoot free throws, we wouldn't be in this predicament in the first place. Edit: At least Josh Smith set a new NBA record, most free throws shot in a half with 26. Previous record was 23 by MJ.
I agree with this. It was a foul. But everybody knows Duncan isn't going to get called for that while 99% of the league would. And it shouldn't have come down to that kind of play anyways. Hopefully Morey and McHale recognize the problems with out team and they can correct them by next week.
Check this out even if you got ball first, remember what they always say, you CAN'T TOUCH THE ARM ONCE THE BALL HAS BEEN RELEASES, remember the old touch the elbow after the ball has been release foul, that is the same thing,,
