GAME THREAD: SUNS @ BLAZERS - 11/13/13, WEDNESDAY, 7 PM

So what does this picture mean?

 

Batum is a cheeky frenchie

 

Looks like a goaltend, no?

 

NBA is going to issue an apology for this one.

 

Well ... yeah, kind of looks like a goaltend to me, but in real-time my internet feed was too fuzzy to make anything out. In any case, Phoenix deserved to lose after the way they let the Red Sea part so Lillard could put in that uncontested layup 5 seconds earlier. Thems the breaks.

 

We go for rebounds?

 

Kevin Durant: "Tough shit."

 

Clippers up by 13. #2 seed here we come!

 

repped.

 

Well technically the ball isn't on the rim when Batum has his hand in there. He could have poked it out....or it could have been out and then his hand went through the basket.

 

Looks like the ball is outside of the cylinder to me and above the rim off the bounce, while Nic's hand is below the rim.

 

Yeah, that's what I thought, too. The 2-D of the photo makes it look like he's poking the ball, but the ball bounced up after hitting the front of the rim while watching it on TV. I don't think this angle does much to settle the supposed controversy.

 

Exactly. Repped.

 

Doubt it. Yes, Batum's fingers are inside the rim, but the ball was on it's way down, and clearly outside the cylinder. They showed the replay five times on TV and even if Batum is nowhere near the bucket it was clear the ball wasn't going in. If the refs had called that it would have been total bullshit.

Fuck the Suns, Go Blazers!!

 

Replay shown 3x on the post-game show. Clearly, it wasn't goaltending on Nic. The photo was one of those 2-D things that look like something that didn't happen.

 

Dude even Tom chambers, a Phoenix homer and announcer said "the ball was clearly coming out before his fingers were in the net"

 

Yeah, and that settles it. This is one of those wins that we can hopefully look back on as fans and say that this is where things started going right for this team, for once.

 

Lillard/Batum/LA combine for 11-42 shooting. We miss 9 FTs, so many layups and silly turn overs. The bench really saved the day, I think we need to see more of them. The bench combined for 14-22, so they made more FGs in half the attempts.

If we had shot a decent % from the line and made our layups it wouldn't have been such a close game. Thankfully the Suns returned the favor at the end.