I normally don't make threads like this but this is atrocious. If you want to call touch fouls, fine, at least make it fair. Joey Crawford is clearly Stern's top b****, and Tim Donaghy is clearly not a liar. Absolutely atrocious.
Joey Crawford I don't think he is really bias but he likes to be noticed and cause "controversy". Seriously the best refs are the ones you don't notice cause their not impacting the game. Crawford is the biggest diva of refs.
Bull**** he doesn't have bias. He does what Stern tells him, which is why I HATE him being in a game when we are vs the Lakers. I can't find, but Lakers' record w/ Crawford as the ref is something ridiculous like 80% win percentage.
Best I could find on Crawford, still looking though: http://www.baylorfans.com/forums/showthread.php?t=170940
They have to to equalize fouls & foul shots as much as they can. They kill Rockets momentum, give Thunder 75% of the quarter, then call a bunch of random fouls on the Thunder @ lull times so if you just look at box score you don't know how bad the rig job was.
I don't disagree that some of the early foul trouble was a bit ridiculous, but you people thinking Stern is orchestrating this are delusional. The game is being called tight both ways; we're getting fewer calls because we spent the first quarter chucking 3's. Even if Stern was orchestrating this series, he wouldn't want the Thunder to beat us in 4. He wants 7 game series. But hey, screw him right?
BSing a game like this makes sense. Rockets have 0% chance of beating Thunder 4 times in a row. This keeps the Thunder alive and they don't have to BS another game. Early round series, he doesn't need 7 games, he'd rather have OKC get rest and prepped for next round. A clippers vs OKC series he'll want to be great and have a lot of fresh legs.
I hope you realize how pathetic it makes you sound to constantly complain about Stern and the refs. We're losing because we're not hitting our 3's and not playing D. But yeah Stern is totally fixed this just like the moon landing. Hey only down 13! Woo hoo!
Exactly. Once we catch up... We should be expecting a bunch of game changing calls in favor of Thunders.
Exactly. Go on to a forum for any team. They will all complain Stern must be fixing games against them when Crawford officiates. He's not fixing anything, he's just a douche. NINE POINTS!
joey is against all teams so I don't understand the problem. the refs have helped us catch up big time, you all are crying man, seriously.
Like someone said it in the game thread. If durant get the FTs for doing the swipe through schits, then harden should get FTs for gettting bumped by defenders driving to the basket.
