Dude. Here's the deal. April 15th. 2009. Tax Day. Let's say the Blazers, having played a great season, are 49-32. And let's say the 51-30 Rockets are playing the 49-32 Mavericks at 5pm PT. And we're playing the 53-28 Denver Nuggets at 7:30pm at Portland. The Blazers and Mavericks are tied for the 8th spot with one game left. While we played a great season, we did not secure the tiebreaker against Dallas. And so it goes: to make the playoffs, the Mavs must lose and the Blazers must win. Will you wait til 7:30pm to turn on your TV and watch the Blazers play? Or will you watch the 5pm game and root for Houston to win? Because our game means nothing if Houston doesn't win. Don't you watch BOTH games and have a rooting interest in Houston? I hope we have a better position on the last night of the season, but it could go down just like I described. Don't you root for the Rockets to win?
Ideally here is how you want to root: 1. Root for whatever team is playing Denver or Utah - except Dallas, unless Dallas is already too far out. 2. Root for every team to beat Dallas, except Denver or Utah - unless Dallas is gaining ground. 3. Root for the Lakers against every team that is in the playoff western conference playoff race. No one is likely to catch the Lakers at this point and them beating the competition only helps us in our own seeding. Our best bet now is for Dallas to continue to lose ground, Utah to remain in the 8th seed and for Denver to lose some ground to us with Carmelo out for a while still.
This is the second game in a row I have watched of Denver where the refs basically gave them the game at home in the last seconds of the game. Way to make the home cookin reffin work NBA!! You should be sooo proud of yourself. Next thing you know the crab dribble will be legal, because only one person can do it.....
I saw that too. The Ref was looking right at Grant Hill when he had the ball in the last few seconds of the regular period against Denver Thurs (1/15/09). Grant Hill got tripped/tangled up by the defenders feet and a foul should have been called against Denver. Gross call Ref's. I believe there was like 8 seconds left in the game when Hill got tangled up.
