While I agree with this... they weren’t driving, they were making their 3s. That’s how they came back and blew it away. We got the early huge lead when we made our 3. But then we stop shooting and making them. We done poor shooting plenty before, the difference is our defense was solid and we didn’t turn over the ball. Didn’t happen this time. Our defense went to sh*t. I think it was a combination of lack of intensity (fatigue?), their adjustment to our defense (including the bear hugs), and the turnovers. We have always been a poor transition defensive team. We cannot afford to turn the ball over against this team.
Did you see his body language in the 2nd and 3rd? Dude just folded his arms and let the bullsh-t wash over him.
You're not getting the point. When the refs call a travel or an offensive foul that is indeed not a travel nor an offensive foul, how can you blame our players for not overcoming bad officiating? Ref CREATED 10 Rockets turnovers by those BS calls/noncalls, that's my point.
This thread is titled as poorly as possible. The refs didn't "prevent" the Rockets from winning. They prevented the Rockets from having a chance at a fair / balanced game. The Warriors were playing well enough to beat the Rockets without an avalanche of bull**** non-calls. It should've been 10 points, not 30.
25 free throws means at least 10 fouls If 5 of those were on Draymond....that does not change the game???? 5 on Durant or Curry does not change the game? It it happens in the 3rd......... that does not change a thing? If you do not see that...nothing can be said Rocket River
That's not how this works. Poor officiating can cause you to stop driving when you know that you can't survive the contact, so you try to force the passing lanes, which the opponent can now overplay... secondly, instead of being at the free-throw line which slows the pace, you are being mugged into a turnover which leads to easy offense the other way. A game is a highly connected series of events that can be easily influenced by a string of poor officiating. And we're not talking about "every loss". No straw men here. Officiating can be the catalyst to unravel even the best laid plans. And I don't blame the Warriors at all. They were playing what was given to them on defense... which was... everything.
I don't think they were the only factor, but they were definitely a factor in killing our momentum. A pretty big one in that 2nd and 3rd quarter. The sloppy passes and missed open 3s didn't help, but between that and the inability to get calls, you could see the Rockets visibly give up early in the 4th once we went down double digits.
Did the refs leave Thompson wide open? Did they leave Curry wide open? Sure they borked us on some calls.....but we did it to ourselves 25 points in an entire half is crap. DD
Again you seem to have an understanding issue that the game is fluid, it isn't football. Offense and defense are linked. When Harden gets hacked, gets a live ball turnover it allows GS moves in transition, hence when and where Klay gets open. If the warriors actually got called for those fouls they don't have that run and it gets easier to stay on Klay. Also, that assumes that when Harden is hacked and shoved to the ground he immediately gets back up and runs the break back. He was getting beaten like a government mule last night, and wasn't always physically able to get back up and into the play.
The Rockets shot an unsustainable high percentage of 3s in the first qtr, hence the big lead. Warriors made their shots after the 2st qtr, while the Rockets started missing, that's the truth of the game.
Uh, so the idea that the Rockets scored 9 points in the 4th was because of the refs is not a boneheaded premise? I don't know if it was because they were tired. But it sounds more reasonable than saying that it was because of the refs.
They swung the momentum and golden state caught fire. Yeah they played a part. If it was just turnovers and them catching fire it's acceptable but these refs are terrible.
That's certainly part of it, but the refs certainly aided in killing our momentum in that third quarter. It was very clear as the game was in the 70s. We may have lost anyway, but I would have preferred to see it happen fairly and squarely.
The Rockets 1st quarter was approximately a top 98-99 percentile result from them, meaning if they played that quarter 100 times, that would be the top 1 or 2 result you could expect from them. From that point on, it was going to be impossible for them to even have a top 90 percentile quarter because of the officiating. No-calls and missed shots lead to transition buckets, bad calls against us lead to easy free throws. The Rockets needed to at least have a shot of having another hot quarter which was impossible due to the refs, and quite a bit due to their own play.
Not sure if I would go that far. I voted No on the poll but the refs did have a huge influence on the game. When the rockets were hitting everything from the outside, Durant got to the line a ton of times on touch fouls to help GS stay within striking distance. I dont think anyone expected Houston to shoot so well and GS so poorly in the first quarter. In the second quarter the Rockets did weather the storm with some timely shots but the refs knew they could not allow this game to go out of hand. A ton of contact not called on drives but luckily the rockets kept shooting fairly well to still lead by 10. Of course 3rd quarter was flamethrowing Klay. What was defeating was the first two Klay drives were on two broken plays where the rockets actually played good defense and Klay bailed out GS. Now Houston still were not getting any calls and this helped fuel the run GS was having. Now I think more than likely Curry and Klay still hit those 3 to help GS win by 10 plus BUT if Houston got those fouls and got to the line it would have allowed them to set up their defense and make them much tougher shots. Once GS went up big I thought the refs would tone it down but by then they still kept calling it in GS favor but by then the damage was done and the rockets were defeated. GS had their rhythm going and once that happens no team can stop them. What's annoying is that people will say fouls were even and FT attempts were too, but reality is this wasnt one of those game where the refs were calling everything for one team (like in LAL-SAC) but they just did not call anything at all for the rockets. This really knocked them out of their gameplan and rhythm. It looked like they wanted to attack a lot more than usual with Paul out. If this game was called down the middle the Rockets should have probably doubled the number of FT attempts the warriors had no to mention throwing off the Warriors rotation with players getting in foul trouble. Despite all that when Klay and Curry go supernova there isnt much that can be done to stop them.
Cp3’s mid-range game is definitely the x-factor. That’s his layup. If harden and GORDON can get theirs going if we don’t get the calls, then we can withstand the 3rd Qtr barrage. We don’t expend as much energy from contact at the rim. I’d put nene to go up against green for 10 mins in the third. We’re getting killed. Plus he has a 15footer.
