The obvious miscalls were HUGE. The phantom Roy calls where Battier played terrific defense. The last play where Rudy clearly trips. All pretty obvious and we got none of them... Yeah there big man fouled out, but those were GOOD calls. Lowry drived and so did Wafer, they were in foul trouble for a reason. Aldride just basically comes over and grabs Yao...Oden one time had him in a waistlock...
Yeah, not a foul. Refs really need to watch out for players who kick their legs out when they shoot. If that's what causes the contact then it should not be a foul on the defender.
what makes that call even worse is that you can see the ref standing right there looking at the play closely.
nah, we missed our opportunities, i expected the game to go like this, but down the stretch i expected us to win because we had more veterans, more patience, and more experience, but we didn't get yao the ball, we missed our freethrows, and we had some unlucky bounces...this game was winable so i wouldn't blame the refs, honestly, and it could be because i was so drunk, i don't remember alot of really BAD calls, maybe 2 or 3, but overall i thought they just called way too much on both sides, foul trouble for EVERYONE, we could have fouled out prz, oden, and LA in 3 consecutive plays, but we didn't
One of the worst calls was the obvious flop that was called a foul on Scola. It helped change the momentum at that point in the game. Somebody needs to string Stern up by his thumbs until flopping is cleaned up. Some recriminations are in order --whether they be during the game or as suspensions. I offered ideas some time ago. Or maybe put him on a diet until things get cleaned up.
that is a FANTASTIC picture... I am tempted to buy that from the AP archive. Thank you for sharing it.
Damn.. There were a lot of blown calls both ways throughout the game. But in the last 4 minutes every single call went to the Blazers, and like that one dudes list showed, a lot of those should have been for us. 1. Roy flopping on the Shane face guard (pictured above) 2. Aldridge hitting ball out of Scola's hand and then getting the ball back from the refs resulting in a Roy 3 3. Battier's clean block that resulted in 2 more free throws. 4. The complete blown call at the end with Fernandez tripping on his own calf. I too dvr'd it, and its painfully obvious. Those were all in the closing minutes. You give half of those calls to us and we win that game. Of course the Blazer fans would probably have some good complaints too. There were a couple times when Yao hit Roy pretty hard and there was no foul earlier. But my point is down the stretch it was all Blazers.
This is the truth right here. I thought the game was consistently bad against both teams during the game but in the final 4 minutes it definitely swung to Portland's favor. Unfortunately, when you miss free throws and get tentative offensively you can't complain about the officials. But that doesn't excuse the refs for how they called the game. Sometimes I swear Joey Crawford has a list of who he is going to call what fouls on and he just sorta fits his game calls into that list. Even Clyde said repeatedly of Joey's calls (paraphrased) "in order to make that call you have to be looking to make it before the play happens."
awesome picture. i just can't understand why the refs were so close (look at that ugly face in between battier and roy) and yet blew it? "these refs are humans." - really? "they make mistakes." - oh yeah? are they paid professionally just to make that kinda bogus calls? hate the excuses.
lol that's probably the best insight Clyde has ever given. I'd really like to see a Blazer's fans persepctive to see if they saw a bunch of terrible calls down the stretch that went our way. It is possible that we're just ignoring them. I do remember one where Wafer got a call and it looked like he was barely touched, but that resulted in just 1 free throw. Those ones I listed resulted in 9 Blazer points and reduced our scoring opportunities. We weren't executing on offense, there's no getting aorund that. But our defense was playing awesome down the stretch but for nothing because the refs gave the calls away.
You can probably make a list either way of bad calls but the only one that took out a major player for a significant amount of time and impacted his aggressiveness was the 4th on Yao. The rockets were starting to click and had extended the lead to 7 when pryzbilla clearly flops. that call changed the entire flow of the rockets and gave it to the blazers and surely had an impact on the outcome of the game. in a league were superstars are blatantly catered to with completely different rules it's kind of silly that our own star not only lacks that advantage but is officiated worse than average.
no argument there. plus, had they not called that 4th on yao, yao was gonna get the ball and we have another possession.
Just think if Yao would have been more involved. We might have fouled them out with 10 minutes left. I love the prospects of Aldridge having to guard Yao in a close game.
Just think of Sisszilla hadn't flopped Yao out of the game. It was during that time that Portland made a run. We had established a rhythm and the lead unitl that.
That's a great list and everything, but I think the only foul that REALLY impacted the game one or another (minus the Fernandez trip at the very end....but I feel like every ref in the NBA makes that call) was the Przybilla flop that gave Yao his 4th foul. Everything else was within the flow of the game, and you could probably argue that we got our fair share of calls in the same vain, but that flop was the worst call of the night, and it completely took us out of our rhythm. We were clicking on offense, and had the ball with a chance to go up by 9 (which would have been the largest lead either team had in the entire game) when Flopzilla proceeds to belly flop like he's a damn blue whale. It was just another moment in a long list of incidences that have forced me to absolutely despise Joey Crawford AND Joel Flopzilla.
