so according to a big rockets forum, the ref's screwed houston in game 2 (sounds familiar) and joey crawford has it in for houston and single handedly gave the game to portland, joel is now the most hated man in houston (he's apparently the biggest flopper in all of basketball, and all he does is foul yao all game without getting called...), at least one fan thinks portland fans were jerks for giving deke a standing ovation while being carted off and he thinks portland was in poor taste during that moment. and yao never fouls roy on his drives, he just stands there with his hands straight up and b roy just whines after every play (although i do agree roy whines for calls alot) it's amazing how 2 different fan bases see the same game(s). i will say though, i do like their mascot better than blaze.
Yeah, the refs are so slanted against the Rockets..... and every singe one of our big men were in foul trouble. Oden fouled out, Joel and LMA had five fouls each. Give me a break. They're right, Yao has his hands up when Roy drives, but he bodies Brandon. He isn't jumping straight up and down.
Rockets fans are pretty intense. My bro went to a Rockets game and said they have some crazy ass fans...like those male cheerleader dudes.
Yao should have fouled out in the 1st half Houston was in the penalty and shooting free throws within 5-6 minutes of every quarter but 1! And there were not going to the hoop. Obviously, they started attacking once the penalty was there, but it was crazy. The refs were terrible in the 1st and got progressively decent throughout. We still had substantially more points in paint while shooting less ft's(the 6-8 we shot at the end dont count, houston was in foul mode)
They're either idiots or are blind if they think they got screwed by the refs. Outside of the one Joel flop, the calls have been going in their favor all series long.
well only like one or 2 fans said that, everybody else said portland fans were good about it. oh, and they still don't know if they like aaron brooks or not. he's their version of steve blake, half love him, half hate him
apparently he's not a pg, and can't get the ball into yao when he's being fronted. him making big shots doesn't negate his TO's towards the end of the game. same reasons we love/hate blake.
I guess every fanbase has their mixums who have no idea what the hell they're talking about. He's been their second best player, and at times, their best.
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Well, he's a scorer. He's a much better scorer than Blake has been in this series. He's not really a pure point guard, but he's also only in his second season. He has room to grow. But yeah, I see the parallels.
there have been many times since the alston trade where lowry has badly outplayed brooks. i mean, right now brooks is on fire and hitting tons of shots. the rockets have to ride it while they can. but lowry is a smarter player and better at getting the ball where it needs to be. once brooks cools off, the minutes will go back to being split basically evenly between the two. it's hard to argue with what brooks has done thus far in the series, but that won't continue even with blake and sergio trying to guard him.
Don't you agree that if Yao jumps straight up in the air with his hands raised, it is not a foul when Roy drives into him? I want to see all the fouls Yao supposedly got away. Some Blazer fans can surely put together a nice video compilation of it. And there was one guy on that board (CF.net, right?) who criticized the crowd for their standing ovation. Everyone else thought he was crazy, and recognized it as a classy move.
It's all the times Yao's hands moved forward when Roy was driving inside that are fouls. Believe us, with as many times as Oden got called for that bullshit in the regular season, we're pretty much experts on how to foul a big guy out. Anyway, there were only a couple of times I felt Yao really should have gotten a foul but didn't; it was fucking SCOLA who should have had 6 fouls by the end, even though he only had four. And even more than that, I'm just really pissed at Joey Crawford for changing calls well after the plays are done, trying to ice LMA in the 4th at the line by having a huddle after handing LMA the ball then taking it away from him, reviewing an obvious 3-pointer by Brooks which gave Houston time to set up their defense against Portland... ...really, Crawford's a big asshole. I yelled at his pasty head all night.
I think the calls in the last 3 minutes favored the Blazers, but overall it favored the Rockets. The problem is that Roy gets bumped on nearly every drive and doesn't get the call but Brooks, Wafer, and others do get the call. It was also fairly obvious they weren't going to foul Yao out, but that isn't a big surprise. I can see Rockets' fans perspective if they just focus on the last 3 minutes, but the game is 48 minutes long.
