Blaming the Refs is the lazy way of avoiding the truth

The problem is Paul has been leading since his return and the team has gone down the toilet. Without Paul this team was beating the elite teams and had a 8 game wining streak since his return all the guys who were playing well have regressed. Gordon and rivers were playing better. No Paul has led s since his return to a losing record

 

Does he watch games or just stare at the huge "99" painted on his wall?

 

Lol Paul has been leading this team to a losing record since his return whereas without him this team was rolling. Beating the warriors, thunder, raptors, celtics and had a 7 game wining streak.

 

Um. Share season tickets. we should grab a beer.

 

Harden, GG, PJ, and EG going ice cold from 3 in the 4th along with poor officiating led to this loss. I liked what I saw most of the game. It’s a tough loss but I’m not about to panic just yet. I am starting to worry a lot about Gordon though, he is missing the wide open 3s that players like Bullock are knocking down on the other end. 4-10 wasn’t bad tonight but he missed a lot of open shots at the end of well executed plays. We could’ve put the game away had he or another guy made a few of those wide open 3s.

 

In my opinion, Scott foster is a CU Next Tuesday. And he definitely had a hand in screwing the Rox this game. And the Rockets definitely have problems on Defense, and also in terms of personnel.

All of those things contributed to a crappy game, but my hope is that everything will be less crappy going forward. If the Rockets smash the Warriors, then I'll be a very happy camper. But there will still be kinks to work out.

 

I hate this topic. It's so pointless.

Because in my mind, as long as the NBA allows corruption in the way of officiating (encourages it?) there is no point in discussing team performance. Beyond that the only comment I have is to read my signature below.

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How I wish it weren't so...imagine a world where officiating was impartial. There'd be a lot fewer threads on internet forums, but a lot less anger in the universe.

The only real solution, however, is for the Rockets to execute well enough so that officiating becomes less of a factor.

 

It’s gotten so ugly to the point where when James is on step back 3 number 8+ I’m frustrated even if it goes in. The team cannot win that way!

 

Tinman has grown tired of James Harden and Chris Paul! Those newbs. They're not PURE. They can't handle the truth.

In reality, tonight's game is a bit different compared to the other blown leads. I do believe there is a constant, and that constant is that there is a mental issue with the Rockets whenever the other team fights back hard. Players get anxious or desperate or something when the other team goes on a quick run to close the gap. I believe that 100%. However, tonight that mental issue was increased tremendously by the presence of Scott Foster. I believe the Rockets would have let the game get close tonight regardless of who the ref was, but I don't think they have a 4th quarter scoring drought the way they did if Scott Foster wasn't involved. I think if Scott Foster wasn't involved we would have come out with a win, but we wouldn't have come out solving the problem of blowing leads. Two separate issues with the latter probably being more important in the long run.

Also, this is the first time CF or any Rockets player has mentioned the referees in any of our recent blown leads. It can be true that the Rockets can't keep a lead while a specific referee who made 134 phone calls to Tim Donaghy back when he was rigging games has a personal vendetta against Paul and Harden. Both can be true. If you want to focus strictly on the mental aspect of things (or perhaps you don't think it's mental and think a) our players suck or b) our coaching sucks) then that's cool, but it would be a disservice to the Rockets to pretend like there isn't something going on with Scott Foster and the Rockets. We can figure out both things. We can multi-task. Maybe one more than the other, but both problems can be addressed.

 

We just play like the controller was handed to some r****ded teenage 2k player. No basketball on the fly decision, jacking up stupid ****, no d, and tries to go with superstars everytime. Sometimes it will work for some period but at the end of the day you dont stand a chance against good player