Game Thread 2023-24 GAME #43 - BLAZERS @ THUNDER - JANUARY 23, 2024 - TUESDAY - 5:00 PM PST - ROOT

how the fuck did Ayton get a Max contract

 

Fire Brooks!

 

Chauncey needs to annihilate the refs in the post game

 

Fire James Jones

 

I'm eager to see that, too.

 

Yeah the refs lost us this game. That being said bad calls happen, the game wasn’t rigged.

The good news is that we competed every second of the game, should have won and don’t hurt our lotto chances.

 

I can take losing knowing Simons took the last shot.

 

Blazers outscored OKC after Scoot got taken out (until the crazy technical), but don't let the facts get in the way of a good story.

 

If Coach didn't beat up the official... could the Blazers have challenged that timeout call?

 

That’s how a tanking team should lose. Last second shot. I am pretty happy with the game. Lots of good stuff tonight.

 

the last 20 seconds was sub-optimal

the double-dribble was the correct call; a T for contacting the official was the correct call; the 2nd T was probably the correct call. But the three calls together was an official fuck-up

Blazers needed a player other than Brogdon to call a time-out. That would have been seen by an official

 

Billups went straight to the post game interview.

 

Not awarding the timeout was not the correct call.

If the coach and the guy with the ball can't get a timeout awarded, nobody was going to. Those are the two places all the refs should be looking at in those situations. You can't have guys off the ball, looking away from the play, to try and find the ref to call timeout. What would happen if a pass came their way and they weren't looking?

 

"OKC with 23 assists in the game, did they get a 24th from the refs?" - Neil Everett

 

Here is the clip. To me, it looks like Brogdon did in fact brain fart and double dribble. He should have called a time out. It seems Chauncy was trying to call a time out, but can't see quite when. Looks like it may have been right as Brogdon started his double dribble. Not a very vet move by Brogdon.

 

I have always thought that if a player dribbles into a trap, they should not be able to bail themselves out with a time-out. I know that's not the rule but it should be

 

I went back, and I don't think he made contact... though he was beyond the coaches box (as was Billups).

 

That would be a strange rule.

 

If looked pretty sure than SGA touched the ball when Brogdon was being hounded.

Wouldn't that allow Brogdon to restart his dribble?