First Round Game 4: Blazers @ Rockets Thread

Good effort by all but Rudy gets only 5 attempts, and Blake and Roy lost their legs again down the stretch.

Some Sergio to start the 4th would have been a big help to them at the end.

So simple, so obvious.

Proven effective over an 82 game season.

 

Yes...Not playing Sergio was the reason we lost.

Brilliant, why didn't I think of it earlier?

 

Great. So I have to look forward to a career of it being the refs' fault. A career of it being someone else's fault. That will be fun.

 

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So would your opinion still be the same about the officiating if the Blazers had won tonight?

 

Portland will not be allowed to win. After the first two fouls on Joel I knew the officials would decide the game. And they did. It will be no different in the next game.

I feel like a dupe for actually paying money and investing time in this league. Not at all sure if I want to do so any more.

Not all of the calls were against Portland either. The officials totally controlled the tempo and flow of the game from start to finish.

First Quarter: Make calls that put Portland in the penalty early. Don't make any calls that go Portland's way.

Second Quarter: Substitute Houston for Portland and repeat First Quarter.

Third Quarter: Allow both teams to go on mini runs, but make sure the game is close.

Fourth Quarter: More of the same. Make sure the last few calls go Houston's way so as to ensure their victory.

I am disgusted with the NBA.

Perhaps I will feel differently tomorrow and will place my head in the sand for yet another game.

 

I would still feel like a fucking moron for actually watching this scripted horseshit. I feel as though the player's action are meaningless in the playoffs. It has ruined the excitement for me completely.

 

Of course he's got to learn to stop fouling so much and there are nights when it clearly is his fault, but if you can't see that there were at least two (maybe three) very questionable calls against him tonight then I just don't think you actually watch the games with an objective eye -- it's either he's Bill Russell, or he's Kwame Brown with you.

 

I'm still pissed about when Greg was in the post working on Yao and Yao hits Oden's arm and Greg loses the ball and no call. Absolutely brilliant.

Call it both ways you fucking cock sucking refs.

 

But how do you create the choices? Do you simply write them in the text?

 

i think the blazers lost this game because joel playing the final 6 or so minutes let the rockets keep roy out of the lane. the rockets didn't have to worry about joel and just closed off the paint and the blazers couldn't get good offense without roy being able to get in the paint. i would have preferred to see oden or rudy in the game instead of joel. i mean what were they saving oden for? he had 5 fouls. make the refs foul him out. a few more minutes out of him would be better than just keeping him on the bench and the added attention that a huge athletic guy who can attack the rim on pick and rolls and actually be a post threat and who is a great offensive rebounder would have helped give roy an easier time getting to the paint(or would lead to easy buckets for oden). rudy in there instead of joel would have opened up the floor as the rockets couldn't have afforded to leave anyone open and aldridge can do just as good of a job or better than joel at denying yao the ball. either one of those options would have allowed roy a lot more freedom offensively and really wouldn't have made much of a difference defensively.

 

the officials didn't decide anything tonight. let's stop with that bullshit.

oden and joel got called for some bad fouls. they were bad calls and should have been no calls. the calls went the rockets way early on in the game. the 3rd quarter, the calls swung in the blazers favor and they were able to cut into the rockets lead and eventually actually able to build a lead of their own. the calls did not favor anyone in the 4th. the players who were put on the floor decided the game, not the refs. the blazers had multiple chances and failed to win this game.

 

he like the brainless brick.....like i said outlaw sucks

 

Looks like my prediction is coming true.

Yes, I agree why isn't rudy played more?

 

Rudy with another paltry 23 minutes. Geezus.... one of our biggest offensive threats when we need offense can't see time on the floor.

Fouls called: Portland 27, Houston 18

I'm so fucking depressed right now, this really reminds me about how low the lows can get by being a fan.. but the highs are great when they happen. I just hate this feeling of feeling like shit after having a realistic chance of being up 3-1 in the series.

 

when posting those foul numbers don't forget about the 4 intentional fouls at the end of the game.

 

It was 3 fouls, which is still 24-18. And Scola was the only Rocket with more than 2 fouls called. We had five players with more than 2 fouls called on them. Yao with 1 foul... haha right.

I hate blaming the refs, but damn, such a discrepancy. Just so heartbreaking not to win that game.

 

lol, hater. Wafer seems to be backing it up, though. 4-8 from field, including 3-3 from 3pters

If Houston is a team of chokers, Blazers must be super-chokers. And I dont know who is telling you Blazers are the superior team. I've read someone else say "if .... we might end up losing to a team we have twice as much talent than" ... no way, our players are more experienced and more well-known around the league for what they do.

 

you're right. it was 3. looking back at the play by play to count i accidentally counted the roy offensive foul as well.

however, you are not right that the refs decided the game in any way.

 

I don't think the refs ultimately decided it, but I'm tired of all this ticky-tack crap with Greg and Joel getting called for questionable fouls when it's the playoffs. The continual looks on Greg and Joel's faces of "what the hell?" after getting whistled for breathing on Yao is tiring.

And then seeing our guys continually get hand-checked and grabbed, and having their progress impeded several times, and not getting that called is bullshit.

Just a bad chain of events in that fourth quarter from bad execution, untimely turnovers yet again, and seeing our guys get shoved made for a depressing end.