Trail Blazers @ Suns - Game 5 - Game Thread

Let me guess...you are watching KGW, right?

 

we would shoot more free throws if we didnt shoot jumpers all game

 

Good D is hard D, the refs called close to 20 touch fouls on us, mostly on our key players, preventing us from playing D any more.

Watch any playoff series and you'll see the exact same formula. Control who wins so more games are played = more millions for the NBA.

Back in the day you used to see lots of 4-0 series and 4-1 series, but they have strangely ceased to exist.

Anyone naive enough to believe each series winner hasn't been pre-determined is, well, naive.

 

TELL!

 

Roy looks bad!

Wow.

 

The crappy calls happened on whatever network - or are you disputing that the calls happened? Did Mike and Mike just convince me that our guys got in foul trouble on ticky tack contact away from the ball that wasn't called at the other end - because I clearly don't have my own eyes. Thanks for clearing that up!

 

I don't remember the 3rd foul but the 1st 2 were obvious, had to be called, fouls...the first he grabbed a guy from behind to stop a direct move to the basket...the refs can't ignore stuff that blatant.

 

He finally started hitting the open looks Portland kept giving him, and as per usual we failed to adjust in-game to hot three point shooting (aka closing out/guarding them).

 

As opposed to the team that shoots more jumpers than nyone (PHX)? That somehow translated into 40+ FTs for them?

 

Its too bad we didn't bring the effort tonight. The same idiots will blame it on gameplan or adjustments, but I think it's obvious one team wanted it more than the other.

 

The refs may have had a negative impact on the Portland defense - but the failure to execute on offense is on the players.

 

The only one I can really remember is when he had Rudy keep going at Ty Lawson in the first Denver game this year.

 

I counted 5 times we went to the rack and there was contact in the air, and the foul was not called on the suns, what do you expect?

 

And the same cocksuckers will say it isn't Nate.

 

It's much harder to judge the officiating when you watch it on TNT - they never show replays.

 

LOL, so yes, you're watching KGW...that explains it.

 

Pretty much. Phoenix was gobbling up every offensive board within reach, some that even hit the floor first before the Suns picked it up. Terrible effort tonight. Sure it hurt losing Camby, but rebounding is a team effort, not all on one guy.

And speaking of Camby, it'd sure be nice to have the two-headed monster right now. Portland absolutely owned the boards with a 2 center rotation. God I miss those days. Shit like this wouldn't happen.

 

Agreed. Phoenix really wasn't that much more aggressive than us. This is why home court advantage is so hard to overcome.

 

Clever. Or not. Dispute the calls, not the commentary. Perhaps I should watch that other network, where our team is referred to as "the other team".

 

they were also aggressive