Crazy to think you can predict certain referees assigned to a game, prepare for the worst, hope for the best! We cannot rely on the whistle, so please Harden, just drive to score and Dwight, don't let the non-whistle get to you. Play hard even though it's 5 vs. 8.
Fight from start to finish, and remain calm. If our guys do that, the refs won't be able to stop them. Go Houston Rockets! You are one game away from victory.
i think our guys might see who the zebras are and not even try 100%….what's the fukin point….the league wants LAC-GS and there is no other way to explain the officiating crew they handcrafted for this game
mauer working 2 games in the same series……in the same season he blatantly cost us a game (memphis) which the league itself admitted he blew the call on the game-defining play. a 30 million person so-cal market could not be ignored
We hadn't had Brothers yet in this series, so unfortunately we were due. But I'm not sweating Mauer. Haven't we won every game he's reffed in the playoffs?
Damn. Harden's not going to get a single call in this game. As crazy as it sounds, I was actually hoping we might get Crawford.
What this tells me is they want a game where refs will swallow their whistles. Mauer and Brothers both swallow their whistles. Brothers is incompetent when officiating Dwight iirc. He literally lets defenders drape his arms and no fouls. Just gotta play not expecting a whistle. This could help for us guarding Redick, Barnes, and Crawford though.
Our guys must not pay attention to the zebras. Just play your game. Yeah, I know it sucks to have them. We can still pull it off.
http://www.nbastuffer.com/2015_NBA_Playoffs_Referee_Stats.html Ken Mauer led crews have called the least amount of fouls per game out of all of them (38.6). Tony Brothers calls some of the most (45.6). As part of the crew, Mike Callahan is pretty stingy with foul calls (38.7) Ken Mauer led crews have one of the lowest home team winning % in the playoffs (50%), Mike Callahan's are lower (33%) TL;DR: Harden better be in stepback king mode
Mauer and Brothers holy **** Callahan did game 1 loss Mauer did game 3 loss (Harden 5 free throws attempted) Tony brothers. Tony brothers.
it wouldn't be a ken mauer game without some sort of absurd flagrant call and weird technical against us
As bad a news is this is for harden...hopefully it means the clippers flops won't be called either..Regardless you keep being aggressive, take it to the hoop baby LETS GO!! Rock the Red!!
Here's one for the conspiracy theorists, this is the 1st game of the playoffs that Brothers will not be the head ref. Similarly, he officiated ONE game all year in the same capacity in the reg season. Really? There was no one else available?
