Honestly, we did not play that bad. We had many more points in the paint, 25 more I believe. The refs gave them and-1's, while we got just abused. This is why the NBA will never be popular as the NFL, the refs take over too often. Yes, I blame this one 100% on the refs. It was a close game in the 1st half, but we couldn't overcome the horrible calls. I thought shaq used to get calls, shit Yao is the master of working the refs. You sneeze on him and TWEET. I really hope we get new refs who call it both ways. I mean, we really went to the hoop a lot, yet shot 20 less free throws, while having 25 more PIP..uhhh something is wrong there, esp when we are constantly in the penalty with 8 mins to go in a quarter. Bull Shit. Fuck you Stern.
i dont agree with we went to the hoop a lot. in the first quarter we did but they didnt call them so they stopped. you gotta keep driving. but i agree everytime we were trying to make a run the refs would take us out of it...i dont blame them for the game, but something needs to be done about scola guarding aldridge, or let joel and greg guard yao like that.
yes, keep driving and get abused, thats how you get hurt. we had over 50 points in paint, we were being aggressive..the refs decided this game by halftime
You lost by a margin of 27 points. You sucked. It had nothing to do with Stern, the refs, or Oden's grandmother.
In the first half Scola was literally pushing LMA with 2 hands as defense.* Very frustrating seeing foul after foul down the other end. *I am not blaming the refs for this loss.
Although I agree there was bad reffing, you can't use that as an excuse for the loss. You have to give credit to the Rockets for the way they played. Dont take that credit away from them and use the refs as an excuse for a 27 point loss. The Blazers just played bad. Deal with it. Dont make excuses.
at the game you know its bad when the masses chant "these refs suck" over and over and over I esp. love the play where artest falls on top of roy when he has the ball, roy is down for 5 minutes, but no call
was it poorly officiated? sure but the refs in no way cost us this game. the refs didn't come out looking lost on offense and caused us to be trailing 11-2 and out of the game. the nba has it fair share of refs tampering with games but if we're going to cry about losing to houston i shudder to think what you'd be saying if we meet LA in the next round. i ask that because i had a friend at the game and he texted me mulitple times asking about calls and i think on replays the calls weren't as bad as watching them in person. not the best officiated game but when you are down 30+ pretty much the entire second half, it sounds very petty to be blaming the refs. houston kicked our asses and hopefully the guys have a good couple practices and come out ready to play on tuesday because they weren't ready tonight.
I could fuckin shoot 60% from the field too if the other team couldn't touch me on D...the game got away in the 1st half when houston kept getting cheap and1's and we got jack shit on our drives, this slowly kept happening an the lead kept increasing. I just wanted a fairly called game, thats all.
LOL it was funny how Roy was just sitting there chilling the whole time, and then got up as if nothing happened. But seriously, refs can't always be perfect. There were some bad calls against the Rockets also.
You guys need to stop bitching. It's just 1 game, with many more to be played. Stop crying over 1 game. Bad calls both ways..
or you could just GTFO the BLAZERS board..what the FUCK do you expect here? You shot 20 more free throws midway through the 4th and we had MORE points in the paint? Explain that to me howdy?!
Lol. I didnt ref the game man, calm down. Blazers lost, end of story. Just look forward to changes in Game 2.
Please, you don't believe that. You've admitted in these threads your team benefitted from the officiating - and there's no arguing otherwise. That decided, we can bitch all we want, thanks. GFY.
HOU got more calls but not completely over the top like some have claimed. You cant blame refs when you lose by the margin the Blazers lost by tonight
