Those three offensive foul and the two ticky tack fouls at the end of the half. I'm not saying they are all bad calls, but when you make huge calls like that against Yao, you should give the Rockets a call on the other end and they didn't do that. Meanwhile, they would never DARE call three offensive fouls like that on Shaq. Yao needs to protest somehow, maybe tear the head of one of the refs off. Seriously, what does Yao need to do to get a call? He has to be drawn, quartered, stabbed, and disembowled before they call a foul on the defender. Meanwhile, on the other side all he has to do is move. Can he not try to get in position. Who still doesn't think the officiating is unfair against Yao?
cant complain about the refs now...we have gone to the line 35 times...they are bailing us out and we are hitting clutch shots in OT to win this game...
Bad officiating in the game overall for both sides. Yao had about 3 fouls that should have fouled him out of the game in the 4th quarter and OT.
what about the officiating? I loved it! hahaha no we got some BS calls against us maybe the refs were making up for no calls earlier in the game. J
I just don't like how the refs are controlling games now a days. I just don't see how players can "lean" and "push" on Yao, but if Yao lifts his arm, it's a foul. I understand that refs make errors, but it gets to a point (not just in Rockets games, but in the NBA), that refs start deciding games.
Worrell said that one of the NBA's officiating bigwigs was in house...maybe the Zebras were trying to impress him by calling every foul possible...worked out well for us.
No question. This was not the best night for NBA officiating. I'm guessing this will not be used as a training video for young officials unless it is for what NOT to do.
I thought I heard something on the TV broadcast about some league officials being present at the game for evaluation purposes. They are going to be in the tape room quite a bit evaluating what went wrong for both sides on this game. B
Not one of the better officiated games Ive seen. I dont remember ever seeing a player called for a 3 sec violation while in the act of shooting. Also, I thought that tech that was called on Francis was unnecessary. Francis was animated a lil, but it didn't appear that he said anything. Glad it evened out in the end. Out of the 3 offensive foul calls on Yao, I thought that only one was close to being legit (the one where Yao had his arm up in the defenders neck/face area.
Yao was called 3 OFFENSIVE fouls in each of last several games. How about the officiating now? There must be some fishy smell going on in NBA referees.
Doesn't it say something that Yao managed to play the whole overtime and not foul out? He was arguably involved in at least 5 or 6 of the most physical plays of the game after getting his 5th and came out without a call against him except some BS 3 second. Although I obviously don't want Yao fouling out, this really shows the refs don't just watch the play and make calls on what they see. They decided they weren't going to foul Yao out. NBA refereeing is total BS. Inconsistent tripe at best.
I knew there were some League Officials there, but I didn't hear anything about evaluating the tape. Anyways, maybe they can finally see how horrible the refs have been lately. They called so many fouls tonight that it was so obvious they were trying to impress the league officials, and they ended up trying too hard. 1. There were 65 fouls called today, plus 3 technicals. 2. Maybe officials will see how Yao gets treated by the refs, you can be aggressive towards Yao, but Yao cannot be aggressive towards opponents. 3. Hopefully, the league officials saw the refs straight take away 6 points from the Rockets. If Steve wasn't in "continuation," or "in the act of...." then I don't know what is. And refs: the 3 seconds in the paint stops when they make their move, the ball was already in the basket when they blew the whistle. Oh well, we won the game. But as a true b-ball fan, the officiating of NBA games has gone completely down hill. The game is being played the way it use to be, and for the most part, it sucks. The small ticky-tack fouls have made NBA players soft as hell and the superstars get calls that are so ridiculous, that is almost becomes a joke.
Exactly. After giving Yao the 5th foul, they basically swallowed their whistles against him the rest of the game so he wouldn't foul out. Also, the 3-second call on Yao in OT came on the possession right after Terry Porter picked up a technical; it was so blatantly a make-up call: "OK, we gave this team an extra point with the technical freethrow, now we have to give the other team an extra possession." I once saw on NBATV Ronnie Nunn, the league's director of officials, say that the refs don't make "make-up calls," which is just laughable.
Mo Taylor's last "foul" was also a make-up call. Replays showed that he didn't touch Redd, but Redd had been complaining about getting hacked for the entire overtime so the refs threw him a bone.
I looked up the 3 second rule on nba.com. I watched that play again and Yao was in the lane for a maximum of 1.5 seconds before receiving the ball. He immediately went to the hoop. Clearly the time resets. See below http://www.nba.com/analysis/rules_i.html?nav=ArticleList OFFENSIVE 3-SECONDS The offensive player cannot be allowed in the 3-second lane for more than the allotted time. This causes the defensive player to 'hand-check' because he cannot control the offensive player for that extended period of time. If the offensive player is in the 3-second lane for less than three seconds and receives the ball, he must make a move toward the hoop for the official to discontinue his three second count. If he attempts to back the defensive player down, attempting to secure a better position in relation to the basket, offensive three seconds or an offensive foul must be called. If he passes off and immediately makes a move out of the lane, there should be no whistle.
