Props to Joey and his crew for swallowing the whistle on a 50/50 play for a loose ball at the end of the game and for generally calling a fair game. Joey Crawford gets a lot of hate, but he's much better than the Zach Zarbas and Scott Fosters of the world.
Have you noticed how bad Rockets were getting hoesed on calls? Rockets are outscoring teams big time in the paint, but are not having a decent lead in free throw attempts. Refs have been bad to Harden all series
Should have been an automatic flagrant on lma for decapitating Lin. Other than that I guess it was decently officiated
Isn't the disparity 12 fouls to 28 for the Blazers. Blazers got touch and sweat bead touch fouls. Cotton Hill was doing everything he could to help out the Blazers.
I thought the officiating was way better than Games 1 and 2. Was it perfect? No. Is it ever? I think Harden and Howard are just going to have to adjust to the way the refs are calling the playoffs. It's called way different than the regular season for whatever reason. Were there bad calls tonight? Sure. Was it anything close to as awful as the calls in Games 1 and 2? No. Let's face it, the refs could have easily called a loose ball foul on the Rockets on the game winning play, but didn't. They let the players play on that one.
This game was called more fairly than all the other games this series yet the Rockets still couldnt get a free throw advantage despite getting significantly more points in the paint. How are they getting so many fouls 15-20 feet away from the bucket?
This one was fair to in our favor. That Lin one would have been a flagrant if anyone other than Aldridge committed it. Harden got a bunch of no calls but Aldridge too this game, how do you think we messed his timing up. But see that's supposed to happen in the playoffs, people are SUPPOSED to get pushed and shoved on jump shots with no calls. I would say that Harden is getting fair playoff treatment, and now it's Aldridges turn to not get foul calls in his favor. What happened the first two games with his halo was embarrassing.
