Did Korver step out of bounds there at the end? I was watching on my20HD rather than ESPN. I was just wondering if they showed that replay on ESPN.
I believe they said that it could've been called a jump ball with Battier having his hand on the ball before Korver stepped out. The ref with the bad angle called the foul instead.
We already know the refs are against us. But we cost ourselves another game by missing everything under the sun, including one particularly important defensive rebound.
If you are talking about Battier's last foul on Korver, that's a phantom foul. It's either should be a jump ball or Korver lost the ball out of bound.
Agree 100%. But of course, Rockets fans are delusional. We made up that story of Finley operating freely out of bounds too! What did Les do to piss off the refs years ago? Did he finger them at the casinos?
Yeah the refs screwed us but a lot of Jazz fans were complaining about the bad officiating too. Lets face it, this crew of officials was bad all the way around. Missed call after missed call.
And when Deron missed that second free throw, you can see Okur pushing Landry and going over the back to get that rebound. Refs never called it. We would have had a chance to win that game had we have gotten those two calls. Bad game by the refs. They called ticky tack fouls and let the rough ones go. Landry and Scola got fouled almost every time they got a layup opportunity, and never got a call.
A phantom foul that was called by the ref from the other side of the freaking court! The ref that was in front of them didn't blow his whistle when it should've been his call and not the guy who didn't really have a good look at it.
we got a call on the tracy double dribble and the landry put back. they got several calls as well like the two tacky fouls on scola trying to get a rebound when he was getting the ball. well two things for me really....on the possession before this it look like korver was intent on holding the ball to get fouled...rafer and scola had him trapped in the corner if they didnt foul there could have been an easy 8 second count on korver (i think there was like 15 sec left in game) at that point. he just caught the ball and hunched over. i would have like to see the rockets not foul and see if korver would have given the ball up. at least he would have had to make a pass, atough one could have been stolen. on this call battier looked like he had one hand on korver's hand and ball and korver went out of bounds forcing the official to make a call. that is a smart play to do but what I have issue with is that it was the ref furthest away from the play with the no angle on where the ball or shane's hands were that made the call. the other ref was right there and didnt call anything. At that point that sideline ref should over-rule the far baseline ref or at least conference and asked what he saw because you cant just assume a team is going to foul in that situation. if we only had rafer early on this series it could have been easily 2-2 at the very least. if we had yao i would believe it would have 3-1. it just sickens me how unlucky this team is when it comes to injuries
That was the worst part about it -- The ref who made the call was the width of the court away and Shane's back was to him. It was the same ref who called Boozer's over the back block on Landry "clean". I COULDN'T BELIEVE THAT ONE. Booze used his off arm to nudge Carl's back, hit him in the head as he reached over, and was ALL OVER his wrist as he swiped! I almost threw the remote through the TV when the ESPN announcer saw the slow motion replay and said "What an amaizing clean block by Boozer."
I thought he just lost the dribble but slapped it up instead of grabbing it and restarting the dribble. I was more concerned about McGrady's lack of handles. I think the shoulder injury is effecting his left hand's dribbling ability the most. He just hasnt had the control of the ball in the last month or so.
