Yao and Scola should have fouled out verrrrrrrrrrrry early by any reasonable standard of refereeing, so no.
I was at the game and I thought the refs were not very good either. I however thought they made terrible calls BOTH ways. My only homer call was the three point deal where Blake didn't get a call and Battier did. When a team shoots 58 percent for the game you will not win very many times. I thought our defense was good and Houston just couldn't miss. This is an easy game for me to get over due to that reason. Bring on game 2!!
MAS, Outlaw was more to blame for this loss than any refs were. If we lost by 8 points i would agree with you the refs cost us this game. I was not shocked at all to see you started this thread to blame the refs as a scapegoat for Outlaw's 4-10 shooting night, with 2 TO's and terrible decision making.
Outlaw played bad, so did Blake and Rudy..quit making this into a Outlaw-hate thread. The refs were bad, point blank and it got away from us in the 1st because of that. It really seems that only maris and a few others are comprehending what actually went on..+18 in the PAINT and -20 or so from the foul line, seriously, does that not register ANYTHING in your minds? I thought we played great in the 1st. I had not seen our boys attack the hoop like that in a while. We were bring aggressive but no fouls, while on the other hand, chow mein was touched and and 1...when they are going to shoot like that, any additional help they get will get a 30 + blowout.
You mean the 45 million Jump Shots had nothing to do with the FT disparity? Come on guys.. while the reffing was bad... the only things worse was our Offense, and our Perimeter D last night.. AWFUL
And also more offensive rebounds to get more points in the paint, easier to do when you miss all their jumpers.. not to mention that we had more points in the paint because we left Brooks and Scola open ALL night from 15 feet and out.
How did Houston get so many Ft's? That should be the question. All night long they took contested jumpers, Artest and Brooks mainly, yet they were living at the line.
You do realize Artest and Brooks took a combined 3 FT's last night.. and the only one who's jumpers were contested was Artest.. Brooks was left all alone all night.
You can't "game-plan" 80% percent shooting Nik. If that was possible, everyone would do it. Seriously, I just remember sitting there in the first quarter and saying, "have the Rockets missed this quarter? No, seriously... have they missed?" And then looking up at the board and seeing 80% from the field and thinking....... we're fucked.
