OFFICIAL AROUND THE NBA THREAD: December 2019

I will never respect Harden as a scorer on the same level as a Jordan, Kobe, etc. Those players would never hurt their own team’s chance at winning in the playoffs to pad their stats. It has been years and this guy hasn’t figured out that you cant get the same calls in the postseason that you can get in the regular season. He has cost them series because of chasing calls. Their loss to us was directly linked to his ineffective flopping.

 

They should get neither. This isn't just because of my disdain for the Rockets, but every freaking team could point out bad calls and say change the out come of the game. The spurs could go point out bad calls in that game that gave the Rockets points too (and not just harden flops). Let the fans whine, and complain (that's what we do right?), the organization though should move on.

 

I don't think the call was basket interference, the call was that Harden missed the dunk, which was a ridiculously bad call. That kind of mistake is the reason for having replay, so it was a failure on top of a failure

I doubt the Rockets get any relief here. The NBA isn't going to overturn the win, and replaying the last 7 minutes would be absurd. But it's the NBA so who knows...

 

You have to find the humor in Houston:

A) complaining about bad officiating

B) Harden whining about 2 points not counting after he shot 24 fucking free throws.

 

Could you point out CJ here; is he right above Anfernee?

 

I think I can explain this one for you: CJ plays a lot of minutes but doesn't do much. Lillard plays a lot but accomplishes a lot. I'm not sure why you asked about Harden; he plays on a team we don't like, they are our competitors.

 

This one is pretty easy; Lillard is really good offensively but not very good defensively. Did we really need a chart to tell us that?

 

Mario for Rando? After December 14th obviously.

 

I think you forgot "the poster formerly known as HCP".

 

There was a backcourt violation in this game that didn't get called, it was objectively wrong and was advantage Rockets. There are a lot of "subjective" calls in basketball I get that, but probably a couple times a game, someone is or isn't out of bounds, or there's a lane violation not called, etc. Yeah, this was a bad call, but replaying it and all that stuff their arguing for is just kind of silly IMO.

 

I didn't miss it, just not sure how I could quantify how many times it takes points off the board. I'm not sure we have stats for that.

 

Imagine if that Rockets and Spurs game was a playoff game... lol NBA refs should be fine or suspended as well like the players if they made a mistake.

 

And Harden would be broke if the NBA actually fined him for flopping.

 

We deducted that The Jinx had me on ignore during that time.

 

If you had actual "blurry" charts, you'd get better responses!......here's a stat....how many guys on that chart have played with 11 different starting rosters 21 games in?

 

Rockets scored on this possession.
Should two points be taken off the board for the Rockets?



This is the same fanbase that wanted the .9 shot replayed because the clock didn't start as soon as the ball left Batum's hands. They didn't realize play starts when it touches a player on the court of play.
At the end of the day if the Rockets fanbase wants to blame anyone for the loss.
Blame their Head coach.
NBA rules state you have 30 seconds to challenge a call. Instead he was bitching about it during the time out and the 30 seconds passed.
But no Rockets think the world is against them especially the NBA.
I mean the NBA caved after pressure from China to fire their beloved GM. Of course the NBA is against Houston.