Chinese call this å£æ°´å¤§æˆ˜ (mouth water war). Winner of Game 4 was clearly Richard Justice! Last night was whoever not-so-rich-not-so-justice-pork(swine)-land-press-jerk. Just watch those two games, anyone can say they are officiated by the guys from same league? based on the same rule book? No f**king way! enough on that. Whenever a rox getting hot, someone took him out. Yao was hot on game 4, officials took him out on most of the first half of game 5. Yao finally got hot before the half time, Brooks took him out. Yao got hot again in early 4th quarter, Aldeman took him out. Scola was the only hot guy on first quarter, official made sure he can not play with all those b**s**t calls. Battier was hot at game 4, he took himself out at game 5. So did Landry and Lowry, with some helps from officials of course. Brooks was hot at game 1, he took himself out for the following 4 games, 4 games! Damn! The only exception is Artest, who never get hot. and Wafer, he's always hot. I still believe Rox/Rich-Just can take the game 6. Let's do this!
It's a hollow victory for me if we need to refs to bail us out. I want the Rockets to just forget about the officials. You win by playing hard and playing smart. The Blazers did a better job of that yesterday, and we did a better job in the 2 games before that.
for game 4 and game 5, I doubt either team can win without helps from refs, it's totally decided by refs.
The Blazers did outplay us in this game, but they also got bailed out a lot. I would've liked to have seen a game where the refs were calling things both ways in crunch time. All a fan can ask for is a fairly officiated game.
I know Hoopsworld is not a popular source, but I agree that $25,000 is worthwhile for a playoffs win. Someone please loan him $25K.
