It's too easy for roy to draw fouls by attacking Yao after those types of picks. Luckily today Yao dodged a couple of those and Roy choose jumpers instead of attacking.
one of yao's "fouls", i believe. this is not unique to yao. the way the game is whistled nowadays, guards can initiate contact and still get a call. the old pistons bad boys will all foul out before the half under today's rules.
I noticed the Blazers trying to draw cheap fouls on Yao by leaning into him after he got called for his 1st foul. I think the refs did a good job not falling for most of them but called a couple questionable calls on Yao later on. I think the refs were sort've forced to call a few calls on Yao by noticing the free throw disparity between the two teams.
You could tell the gameplan from the beginning was to get Yao into foul trouble. It didn't work until it was too late.
cos Stern was there.....surrounded by 5 Chinese Mafias!! jk!! for once im so glad to see calls going our way. lets hope this continues
Yao shouldn't be taken charges to be honest. The one thing I don't like about him is the fact that he takes charges. It may be playing smart, but the referees won't always believe a 300 pound 7ft 6 giant will fall so easily. Man I wonder how pissed Mutombo gets everytime he sees it, sometimes you get a camera on Mutombo after Yao takes a charge and you can tell uncle ain't happy.
It was a well called game... fair even I thought, still not perfect but NBA refs are just too terrible as a bunch for that. Like has been said there were big calls go against us that hurt us... for example the 4th on Yao should of been a charge, instead he gets his 4th and the Blazers get 3 points. The no calls were even, they were unlucky on a couple of drives but then Oden score 6-8 points while shoving or elbowing his defender.
Lol. Any teams fans will agree the refs were bad if they lost... no matter if they really were or not.
Have been wanting to ask this and perhaps this thread would be the place. I barely understand what a loose ball foul is, anyway. But/and listening to our commentators ie Bill, Clyde and Matt and I hear the whistle and loose ball foul called - I am getting to the point where I have the next words memorized "against Houston - Scola". Anything to that?
Accusations like this become less crazy sounding after every season. Still, I'd like to not believe it..
OK, there were two situations where a bad call was made, and then a bad makeup call was made the other way. That was the extent of the officiating mistakes I saw. Listen folks, if Yao has his hands straight up, and he jumps straight up and is squared to the play there will not be a foul called. It is supposed to be like that for any big man. Now, the NBA officials looks to bail out an offensive player under these rules(an arm slightly dipping into the player, a slightly diagonal movement on a jump, hitting with the side of the body) but sometimes they cant do it without making a bad call. NBA fans are so used to their stud wing players charging into a big man and getting the whistle that they dont understand the way the rule has been instituted. Remember the game @ utah where they charged into Yao 4 times and only one got whistled. Yes that was a bad call, but 75% of the time they got it right. Watch any road game this year where the opponent charges into a straight up Yao and no call is made. Hear those boos?? Most teams dont have a player like a Yao that teams try to charge into and foul out. Therefore they dont understand the frustration and now relief that us Houston fans feel when Yao is allowed to have his space.
Strangely enough they outscored us in the paint by nearly 20 points. Or at least thats what I thought the boxscore on FSN said. Coiuld be wrong.
They were in the paint early, but the ESPN announcers said that the Rockets were careful in there not to foul, only to offer sound defensive resistance. Alot of times they were open plays. They had 16 in the first quarter alone I believe. But you had Batum with a wide open dunk, Pryzbilla with a couple layups where Yao just kinda made him shoot over/around him. Roy had a couple drives but Yao just tried to make it a tough shot without hammering him. Blake had a just below the FT line jumper as well that was uncontested.
