Video showing Harden's last shot should not have happened

Bad calls all night long on both sides. We blew the lead......I've seen nobody mention this, but CJ's 3 earlier in the night was an OBVIOUS shot clock violation...... bad calls usually even themselves out. Tough loss. Gotta' move on FAMS!

 

What's even worse is that their coaches and fans both feel entitled to be able to berate the refs. OKC fans are horrible, but Brooks at least doesn't whine on every call. Pop is Pop, there's no changing him, so it doesn't really bother me. I find LAC and Houston to be unwatchable. It's ISO ball and flopping. It's a disgrace. Hopefully the Blazers sent some of this video to the league. Also, if the 5-second rule isn't going to be enforced, just get rid of it entirely. It's not a subjective call, so if it can't be enforced objectively, just get rid of it and allow teams all the time they need.

 

OKC has the least sophisticated fans in the entire NBA. I don't really expect Ma and Pa Kettle from the Cow Chip Capital of the World to pick up on the subtleties of the NBA game overnight, but this is the 8th season of NBA basketball in Hicksville. You think they would have learned something by now. They rabidly boo EVERY call that doesn't favor their team - even if the call is obviously correct. You're much more likely to get a make up call if you only rabidly boo the obviously blown calls.

Plus, success came too quickly to "their team" (not counting the two years the Hornets played there after Hurricane Katrina). So, they have a huge sense of entitlement. If not for the possibility he would go to the Lakers, I'd LOVE to see Durant get pissed off at playing next to a PG that freezes him out in the 4th quarter of close games and take his services elsewhere. Unlike most expansion teams that struggle for years just to get to .500, by stealing a team with a budding superstar from another city, the Thunder got all the way to 50 wins their second season in Cow Chip Town - that has given their unsophisticated fan base an enormous sense of entitlement.

BNM

 

Absolutely true. I think Durant is very comfortable there, unfortunately, which means unless something terrible happens to him health-wise, they have another 10 years of being competitive. I view that entire fanbase as a bunch of bandwagon fans who have no idea what it's like to watch your team struggle and build into a winner. I can at least give Houston and Clipper fans credit for being there during down years, but last night from the Houston fans was just unbearable. Booing every single call is a sign of a dumb bunch of fans, IMO. Houston has dumb fans.

 

I'll add that Durant is becoming very hard to watch on the court. Not for his game, but for the way he berates the refs. I don't think the players respect Adam Silver, or think he'll discipline them, and it's starting to make flopping the way to succeed. Silver needs to take a stand and show some balls. Otherwise, the playoffs are going to be unwatchable.

 

I like our chances against most teams in the west, but I want nothing to do with the Rockets. I don't think that series would end well for us. The refs let Beverly do whatever he wants to Dame, and Harden is the undisputed flop king of the NBA. The fact that he hasn't been suspended shows the NBA doesn't give a shit.

 

Maybe they could even break it out as OFLP%, DFLP% and TFLP%. That would highlight what a great flopper Hardin is at both ends of the court, compared to Beverly, who is mostly know for his great defensive flopping.

BNM

 

3 times late in the game, Harden showed off his new move, the cockroach-on-his-back flop. It's a masterpiece.

He falls onto his back, skidding a foot before stopping. He writhes as if sprayed with a can of Raid. His legs rotate in the air, as if pedalling a bicycle. His fingers claw at the air. He apparently has trouble breathing. As his involuntary muscle control slows and his nervous system fails into paralysis, we psychically hear him begging, in dying cockroach language, "Call a foul...I beseech thee."

 

You nailed it. We've completely forgotten how to win close games.

 

WE did lose that game, but the refs surely didn't help. I'm guessing that's the consensus.

But, there was one particular play where Harden got "shot out of a cannon" on a love tap by Matthews I believe... he fell to the floor and acted hurt... but the camera pans to his face and he has this look of "Did they call it?!" It was disgusting.

 

When I use to play on the play ground and someone got their ankle broke everyone laughed it off. Today's coddle generation has to act like he just got knocked out tosave his pride. Sports players as a whole are turning Into pansies.

 

I mentioned it in the game thread... I noticed it real time that it was still in his hand when the red light came on.. I see where you're coming from.

 

I think a lot of Clippers fans were Lakers fans 2 years ago.

 

FTFY.

 

LOL - Spot On!

That guy, although talented, is an absolute disgrace the way he carries on.

 

I saw that video and was reminded of this one:

[video=youtube;tBz3PqA2Fmc]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBz3PqA2Fmc[/video]

Starting at 1:03

 

This. Well said, HCP.

 

My frustration isn't about refs missing calls or bad calls. I can take losing and missed calls. The frustration comes from the bastardization of the game resulting from all this flopping and injury-faking. It isn't fun or entertaining to watch.

 

Just so EVERYBODY in the forum knows. Unless it is 7 seconds you absolutely do not call a 5 second call there. You let the players decide the game.

 

This is called MARGINAL contact. Do you know how many coaches I have to explain this to? And NBA refs are making my job harder... Bastards... What FUCKING FLOP...