Whats a shame is people who say "they did it first" might as well include an "I am Rubber you are Glue" in there as well. People who bitch about bitching are hypocritical.
They'll still bitch, everyone always finds something to complain about. There might even be some crazy people complaining that Battier should've scored 25 in our Game 5 win against the Blazers. Might be others complaining that a team of Blazers caliber shouldn't even have won a game against Rockets. I don't think I'm bitching about you're bitching. I just said you should talk about the game and the players and key points of the game, instead of WHO is reffing.
Last time I checked, this was a Blazers forum. Do you see any of us whining over at the Rockets forum? If so, you'd have a legitimate complaint.
Anyway, continue posting in this useless thread. I'll leave yall alone! But don't expect the refs to decide the game tonight, best hope the Blazers players show up - or they're going home
It just speaks volumes about the quality of refereeing in the NBA when you know the game will be called a certain way with one ref and a different way with another ref. I don't doubt that teams look at who is reffing that night, and know the game will be called a certain way. And it's not like we're the only fanbase who bitches about the officials.
Nobody in here is blaming a 27 point loss on the refs. You might have seen 1 or 2 posters who might have thought that but what you just said is a bunch of crap. The only game the Blazers won was the only game where the number of foul calls were even close. Game 3 and 4 we lost by a total of 4 points. In every single game we've played we've had between 2 - 4 of our bigs (GO, Joel, LaMarcus, Channing) foul out or end up really close. Meanwhile Yao gets to pitch a tent, building a fire, and make s'mores in the lane and Brandon is getting completely beat up by Battier/Artest and nothing gets called. One of my keys to the games 3 and 4 was that we had to try and at least stay close in foul calls because the Blazers can't win when the refs are giving the Rockets 15 extra foul shots a game.
Interestingly, you bitched after the one game where we shot more FTs (and only because you fouled for profit at the end. We've bitched after the other games when you've shot more FTs. A correlation, perhaps? What a douche. Houston fan = fail.
Just tell your boys to stop fouling so damn much, and stop bitching for once. Rockets are a much better playoff team than Blazers, and its starting to show how inexperienced the Blazers are and how the only one to step up is Brandon Roy. The rest of the team just stands there and sets picks and watches. Sorry guys, officials are doing anything tonight because the better team will win. I know you blazers fans like to blame the officials because you're playing a better team and lose more often than you win, but accept it - Rockets are better
i'm pretty sure there have been officals threads before every playoff game and much of the regular season. sometimes it is nice to know who's officiating games because these guys do have reps and make certain calls. you coming in here on a one man mission is quite funny though.
Except...Houston hasn't advanced past the first round in 6 years--so if the Blazers end up having that much trouble getting out of the first round then you can start talking shit. Until then I'll GLADLY take the youngest team to win 50+ games in 10 some on years over your Rockets team.
Nah, I'd rather not. Tired of people talking as if Blazers are the better team, when its clearly showing they're not. So let me say what I'd like, you can mind your own business. Rockets are better and its showing even know, how can you seriously complain after every game - i dont understand.
Refs were pretty good tonight. A few blown calls, but fairly even, IMO. I suppose that's how a fan of the winning team usually feels though. Keep woof'n pudman, 2-3. You'll be singing the blues after G6. I wonder if they're whining over on your forum? Maybe I'll go over and tell them what they can and can't whine about. Go Blazers
Game 6 officials: Bennett Salvatore Mike Callahan Jim Capers I don't know if any of those guys have reputations or not against the Blazers. http://www.nba.com/news/referee.html
I got a link to the referees list off the Rockets' version of BEdge and they hated seeing Salvatore there, and then Rice is on 95.5 and says he doesn't like seeing Salvatore there so who knows.
