[Chron] Rockets do just enough to beat Clippers

Well, there you go.

 

I'm thankful for the win, but I gotta say.. I don't like winning that way. The Clippers got a bad call on the last play. Mobley should have gotten three free throws. I don't like winning or losing a game because of the refs making a bad call. We've been on the other end of that (when we've lost to a bad call), and it's crappy feeling.

 

Watch the replay, Mobley's right foot was clearly on the line. It also looked that rafer fouled him on the floor before Mobley flailed his arms.

 

I retract my statment. His foot wasn't on the line.. even tho wen i watched the game last night.. it was.. haha

But it still does look like it was on the floor.

 

This answers if it was a shooting foul or on the floor...

http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/playbyplay?gameId=270328012&period=4

From the replays I saw Cat had one leg up in the air and one behind the line when he started his shooting motion.

That also says it was a shooting foul and this is where the refs gaffed.

 

I didn't see anyone even touch Cat, much less foul him. Plus I didn't know you could jump forward over the 3 point line shoot it right before you land like 2 feet in front of it, and it still counts as a 3?

 

The Clippers were robbed of an opportunity to win the game. Sucks for them, I now know how it feels to be on the good end of a BS call. Not something I would defend by any means.

 

Yes, they were robbed of an opportunity to TIE the game, nice to see some calls going the other way, especially the way Yao gets officiated.

DD

 

I was assuming as I watched it that the refs called it a non-shooting foul. Actually, that makes the most sense, since Cat was only flailing his arms around after the contact in order to try to convince the refs he was 'shooting'. But if he was 'shooting', it was going to be a one-handed, slow-pitch-softball shot, and had no prayer of it going in.

My personal opinion is that the refs got the call right - that the Rox did exactly what they wanted to do, which was foul before any player could get a shot off. Was it a little closer than I would have liked it to be? Yeah, but the Clips DID have at least some say in the matter.

They didn't get jobbed, they just lost. I feel bad for them in regards to how I know we would all be feeling right now if the shoe had been on the other foot, but we have enough losses over the course of a season where I think we got robbed that I do not overly regret the very few times where we come out on top of a situation where fans of the other team might think they got robbed. It all balances out in the end.

Besides, the refs got the call right.

 

This would be a good poll, but I can't post a new thread.

If anyone's interested, the poll could be "How do you feel about the ref's call against Mobley?

O Wrong call - Too bad, so sad. Sucks to be Clippers.
O Wrong call - I don't like to see a game decided this way even if we win.
O Wrong call - but in the past, we've lost because of wrong calls. It's someone else's turn
O Right call - Rafer fouled him before the shot
O Right call - Mobley wasn't in the process of shooting when fouled
O Right call - Mobley wasn't even touched

 

I havent seen too many replays but i think they ruled it more on the floor. the clippers had no timeouts remaining a foul would force the clippers to make both, foul the rockets and then try to take it the length of the court to make a shot or miss the second hope for an offensive rebound and putback when you do not have rebouding position. fouling then was a smart play the way the foul looked was not so good.

 

Stuff happens (particularly when it happens to the Rox) - but - I thought Rafe fouled Cat BEFORE the shot. If the refs called it a shooting foul they were wrong twice IMHO.

 

didnt he miss the first free throw ? would that have changed if he got 3 attempts? maybe, maybe not

 

signed,
luther head

 

I think it just matters where your feet leave the ground. I heard that if you could jump from the 3 point line and dunk, it'd be a 3....not sure though

 

If Mobley had swished both free throws, they'd have a lot more to complain about. As it played out, moot point.

 

He did.

He said that the bad call got into his head and he was still fuming about it when he missed the free throw.

And, honestly, he's probably right. I believe that, if they'd whistled him for three free throws, he probably would have made the first one (at least).

 

Do we have an official statement on the reason for only 2 shots? It's clear as day that he was behind the line. Personally, I thought Mobley was acting to make it look like a shot when he really was just coming around behind Yao's enormous obstruction, so I assumed they ruled it was not in the act. As a ref, even for the home team, I would not give 3 shots in that situation unless the guy was putting up a serious shot. Not for a flail. It's one of those aesthetic things: you don't intervene to turn the whole game result based on a manufactured technicality. I would split the difference and give them 2, even if 2 vs. 3 is all the difference in the world.

Yao gets screwed by these aesthetic rules all the time. Gets called for contact moves that aren't really fouls, just damned ugly.

 

Not only does he jump forward, but he leans backward AND he shoots from the side. He has one stange shooting motion.