That's nothing new. The more aggressive and more physical team will be able to get away with more, because that's their "style". With all that, Utah has not been a particularly good defensive team the last few years so I'm not sure how much their bruising style helps them.
Couldn't disagree more. The Jazz get away with more body contact and over-the-backing than any team in the league. On too many rebounding opportunities to count, Okur and Boozer would throw theor body into the Rox in front of them and jar the balls lose.
Come on, Will... It was not a lack of Gundy, or a like of Rick that got us this supposed "lack of calls." It was no Yao. If Yao had been in there you could count on 5 more fouls against and 8 to 10 more no calls. We still had plenty no calls and phantom fouls called against Houston. How did Scola foul the two Jazz players that hooked him by the arms and then fell with him between them. How did Scola commit a foul by extending his arm, and having AK slap it? How did Battier commit a foul on Korver while he was stepping out of bounds? How did Okur get a call in his favor while he pushed through three Rockets to get a rebound, saw that he knocked it out of bounds, and then fell on himself, out of bounds under his own power? The Phantom of the Opera is less of a production than the calls we saw this series.... And I only listed a few.
Agreed! So often I laugh at fans crying about calls. You always see fans for both teams curse at the same refs. What gives?
Glad you mentioned that play cuz I was about to. That was nowhere near close to a foul. That was the refs enjoying the Rockets comeback attempt or something. I was watching with my friends who've basically added the term "Cheatin Utah Refs" to their vocabulary. They're yelling at "punk a-- Harpring" for his BS fouling and I said dude that nowhere CLOSE to a foul. They looked at it again on replay...and complained about something else. The Scola takedown from my view it looked like he plained rammed into them for the offensive rebound, and he laughed cuz he knew he tried to get away with it cuz the refs weren't calling anything. But I could be wrong. Still doesnt take away the first couple games where it was very un-Rockets in calls. At most they just made things even 2 games out of the 6. But, it wasnt all Utah.
In game 6, when we were down by 20+ points, the refs did seem to pity us a little bit to give us some bonus FTs. But that's it. In other games, the refs plainly allowed Utah to hack us in nearly every possession.
I don't know if they called this one. Another favorite Jazz tactic, the sandwich foul and turning your head away. A forearm push to the chest in the front, and a grappler on your back to prevent you from jumping.
Sorry but you are confused. I've read Jazz forums during the series and I rarely see complaints of the ref calling. Either us Rockets fans are a bunch of blind whiners, or the Jazz know they have it better. Also don't forget to mention that Rick subtly complained about the poor job the refs were doing, and JVG last year and this year says the same thing. But hey, maybe JVG and Rick are a bunch of homers like us. Or perhaps the just suck ass?
Bingo! You visit someone else's message board and you see the same crying about calls. It's pathetic really. But take your pick, it's either the fault of the refs or the fault of your players who should all be traded ASAP.
If the Rockets made their free throws and easy laypups, this discussion wouldn't matter. We would be playing the Lakers tomorrow.
If the Rockets made their free throws and easy layups, this discussion wouldn't matter. We would be playing the Lakers tomorrow
man, who's giving you all the bad post ratings? if i were a clutch crew member, the delete button should be working. yeah, i don't blame the refs either. the times i felt we got screwed were when Robinson got that tip in and the clock incident..and oh michael finley. we lost this series, i accept it. no yao, rafer hurt, we played hard and never quit. its ok, this was a great season.
There's nothing wrong with wanting to stand out from the crowd and avoid the obvious statements, but this thread is plain incorrect. Utah created an atmosphere where the refs could not have possibly favored the opposing team; citing one example of a blown layup doesn't make much for much of a case. That being said, the refs did not win or seriously influence the series for either team.
Wrong...They showed the replay, and the foul was called before Mac lost the ball. Officiating was terrible the first two games, and decent for the rest of the series. Bad officiating doesn't usually change the complexion of the whole game, but the call at the end of game two was one of the rare occasions that it did. That said, you can't blame the series on the Ref's. The good team(Rockets - Yao, Rafer) lost to the better team(Healthy Jazz).
Dude, I respectfully disagree. I think there were a series of questionable calls in CRUCIAL moments. If the "ball" bounced our way, the series would have been ours. By the way, I hate the freaking Jazzholes (and everything about them; their organization, their players, their stupid fans)
I'm not going to state the millions of bad calls made, but I will state the ones in which we lost in, some of them determined the game. Game 2, Kirlenko flop. Bobby hit the 3 to tie the game but didn't count cause apparently scola fouled him. We lost after that. Game 4, Korver steps out of bounds, and it was a foul on battier. Battier had all ball, so the least the ref could give us is a jumpball, but no it had to be a foul and Utah regained posession. That defined the game. Game 6, Horrible officiating early on put us down by 19 points. The two early fouls on mutombo were just complete BS. Not only was mutombo standing still, but boozer jumped at him and it didn't even hit mutombo's arm. I think mutombo was standing outside the semi circle as well. The least you could debate about is how horrible the officiating was on both sides. But saying the officiating favored us, is kinda over the line.
