Game Thread 2023-24 GAME #43 - BLAZERS @ THUNDER - JANUARY 23, 2024 - TUESDAY - 5:00 PM PST - ROOT

A contrarian opinion on a horse shit call that went against the Blazers?!! Id have never predicted that one. LoL

 

How could that ref not see CB? I daresay it's physically impossible not to have noticed CB.

 

I'm guessing Wiz is going to say the one ref was too close, one ref was too far, and Bill Kennedy doesn't believe in awarding a timeout when someone is being trapped.

 

Or...
What's the general consensus here? Cool, I'll take the opposite, as long as it's against the Blazers

 

wont result in shit but it's the principle. i applaud this

 

gfy

 

@Natebishop3

You've said a never take a firm stance on an issue. Here's the one time I do!

 

Blazers can file all they want. This is the same NBA that would have you believe that Tim Donaghy acted completely alone and every other referee was above reproach and never involved.

Sadly, We all KNOW that situation would NEVER happen to a large market team like the Lakers or Celtics or a star driven team like the Warriors from just a few years ago.

 

what I said was I didn't see if Brogdon was calling a timeout or not. If he said he did that's a different matter. The replay I saw didn't have that angle. I also said I found it hard to find a lot of room to debate the points Kennedy made. Obviously he's going to take the side of his crew

but I'm curious what you attribute this situation to. Was it just a blown call? or were the officials out to screw Portland and award OKC the win? Did they pre-determine they were not going to give Portland a time out?

my theoretical rule take about being trapped was a bad one; I'll grant that. And I'd also suggest the 2nd T on Billups didn't need to be called unless he went overboard on insult profanity. But if he was called for something he said to the official in his rant, why didn't the officials hear him calling a time out?

 

I have no reason to think the refs were out to screw the Blazers. I think they missed the foul call, missed the travel call, got the first tech right, should've walked away and given Billups a way longer leash on the second. I think Kennedy giving an inaccurate and incomplete answer to the question, while expected, doesn't justify it.

Your post said you didn't feel anything Kennedy said was debatable, despite him implying a ref can't hear 5ft from from him when watching a double team, and attempted to justify it by saying that he is to "referee the play to completion". The play SHOULD have been completed by the calling of the time out. We see timeouts called mid-play all the time, so the theory of "referee the play to completion" is total garbage.

I also want to be clear: It's good we lost, so I'm not even emotional about that. However, the entire possession was clearly botched, and I don't know how anyone who's watched the replays could say otherwise.

PS- I'm giving you crap, but it's not serious... even though I think you're way off base on this one!

 

As CB said, the refs KNOW a t/o is highly, highly likely to be called in this sort of situation. Just look for it next time perhaps. smh

 

Everyone knows the Blazers got screwed, but there is no way they'll win this. It would open up a can of worms for it to happen more often, and the league doesn't want that.

 

ok...that's reasonable

 

(imho) Reffing has been going downhill steadily since the early 90s; I'm not surprised they have been PAC-10 bad this year. A bold new era in simply not caring to know how the game is played.

 

Brogdon DID call a time out. He started calling for a timeout the moment he was doubled. So did Chauncey.

 

Brogdon turned and called timeout the instant he was trapped.

 

Also, we had a foul to give that we didn’t use when Williams hit that jumper

 

Nah, you're in the wrong and clearly being contrarian - even all the OKC fans on reddit acknowledge they got handed the game.

 

The number of people on Twitter that seem to think you are required to make a physical "T" signal using both hands to be awarded a timeout has been my biggest surprise of the night.