Video showing Harden's last shot should not have happened

Howard was caught twice on video for 2-handed shoves in the back. You'd think the refs would at least call those. Disgraceful. Our boys plays hard though, no disgrace there.

 

Yeah, Mark Cuban is a pain in the ass, but he's willing to put his wallet where his mouth is when his team gets screwed. I wouldn't want PA to be constantly bitching and whining, but after an especially egregious reaming like last night, I'd like to see him take a fine for the team, if nothing else, it will let the players know management has their backs.

They could even do it as a parody, that they have a new advanced stat, FLP% that will help them evaluate future draft picks and free agents to target to insure success in today's NBA.

BNM

 

Lillard's got such a special aura about him that it literally knocks Beverly down to the floor in disbelief.

 

Not shocking. This is the NBA, after all.

 

Thought there was some pretty bad calls, but if we continue to finish games where we don't score in the last so many minutes, it can't continually be the fault of the refs that that happens. Hit a FT and we win the game. Maybe we win by getting a better look than an alleyoop with 8.8 seconds left. Maybe if we made more than one FG in the last what, 7 minutes? Some definite shitty calls. But some shittier play.

 

The issue is it seems the official doesn't start counting 1 until 2 seconds have passed so in his mind (the official's) I think he believes Lin got the ball off just in time (counted to 5 when it was really 6).

 

That bullshit play alone cost the Blazers that game. So did any one of four missed free throws in the fourth quarter. So did not calling Howard for all the illegal screens and shoves in the back. So did the six seconds to inbound the ball. I could go on. Such is the nature of the NBA.

Maybe they should put inbounds plays on a clock, like the shot clock?

And Beverly was a Bitch that whole game.

 

Amazing how in that count, he got to 3, I think, judging by him extending his hand out.

 

Ya, after watching it again it looks like he puts his arm out 4 times. So it would have had to been like an 8 second inbounds for him to call it. Sad!

 

Ah I see, looks like he extended for 4 when he was starting to turn his body, so didn't see his arm come out there.

 

Watching live it felt like Lin held onto the ball for a long time and sure enough, over six seconds.

 

Hopefully in the near future, the inbounds play will be timed by a stopwatch. I mean, they added tenths of seconds to the shot clock to improve accuracy, this would only help.

 

Saw this:

on twitter. I get that it's factually true. They count slower. But it shouldn't be the case. "Oh, sure if you time it, they'll show up slower but...." Uhm, that shouldn't be the case. 5 seconds is 5 seconds. Not however long a ref feels like counting it for.

 

Someone should tweeter that animated gif to Beverly. that fucking drama queen.

 

I vaguely remember a time long ago when the refs were taught to err on the slow side, because some teams were actually given less than 5 seconds to inbound the ball when the ref rushed the five second count. This was back in the early 90's, as I recall.

However! If last-two-minute reviews are now taking away the refs' ability to fudge calls (e.g., "I'm not going to call a loose-ball foul with 7 seconds to go because I'm not a douche, so I'll give the fouled team the ball back because that scramble as the ball went out of bounds was a bit too pushy"), then we might as well mechanize everything else.

 

So what happens now? Do they give the game to us after all? Mistakes like this will happen. Whoever is in charge will have their hand slapped (Maybe). And in the end, the Blazers will still take it up the ass.

Won't be the first, def won't be the last.

 

Replay the last 6.1 seconds with Portland getting the ball at halfcourt. Easy Peasy.

 

Beverley is a pest, but I don't hold it against him so much because he had to bite and claw his way into the league. Harden, on the other hand...

 

This. It was our fault we lost.

 

The flopping in this league is getting to the point of being unbearable to watch. It is a disgrace to the game. I want to watch the best athletes in the world competing at a high level, showing their speed, strength, agility and overall athleticism. I DO NOT want to watch players flailing and flopping around the court, putting so much power in the subjective hands of the officials. It is one of the reasons I HATE watching soccer, and the NBA is trending in that direction.

It was absolutely infuriating to watch Harden flop over and over. But even worse was watching him lie on the ground in a limp position, faking an injury every time he flopped. It isn't basketball, and I have no interest in watching that garbage.