That's the number of fouls called on the Blazers versus the number called on the Rockets in the games in Houston. Un Fucking Believable! This is just BULLSHIT! I am so mad right now I am about to EXPLODE!
Sad part it when I read the 54-36 I assumed that was their rebounding edge tonight. Thats why we lost.. cant blame it on refs.
are these numbers legit? wow, nate needs to make these facts public, b/c this is bullshit..we can't win if yao and artest are not being called for anything
Oh, and throw in that Scola jumper in the first quarter that was CLEARLY after the shot clock expired. Difference in the ballgame as it turns out.
Guess what - interesting concept here - two points in the first quarter count just as much as two points in the fourth.
the rockets got the majority of the calls in the first half of tonight's game. joel's first two fouls and oden's first(and maybe second, i didn't really see it) were complete garbage. but the blazers got the majority of the calls in the second half, especially in the 3rd quarter.
Oh, would that be when Yao collected his one (and only) foul? Yeah, we were really racking up the calls. Or was that when Artest got his one (and only) foul? Battier his one (and only) foul?
battier and artest each had 2 fouls this game. over a 6 minutes stretch of the 3rd, the rockets were called for 6 fouls and the blazers only called for 1. and it wasn't because the rockets were committing a bunch more fouls. at the beginning of the game the calls went in the rockets favor. the rockets built a lead. then the calls began going in the blazers favor and that lead disappeared. game was decided in the 4th and it wasn't decided by the refs.
Absolutely. No matter what happened early in the game, our fate was in our own hands in the fourth quarter and we choked. It wasn't the ref who poked the ball away from Blake, or who committed the offensive foul while driving to the hoop, or who took a rushed 3-pointer, etc., etc.
We just settle for way too many jumpers so we don't get the fouls called. It's not until we're desperate and then we start driving to the hoop and put pressure on the defense. It's just stupid. But it still doesn't excuse calling everything on G.O. and Joel. Fucking stupid calls. A 54-36 advantage is a pretty wide margin.
of course when you take into account the 7 intentional fouls at the end of the games(3 from this game, 4 from game 3) that the blazers committed, it drops to a 47-36 difference in fouls called.
the blazers were allowed to be more physical in the 3rd quarter and went into the 4th leading by 6 points.
over a 6 minute period in the 3rd they called 6 fouls on the rockets and only 1 on portland. they were definitely involved.
yes, at the time i remember thinking multiple of them were questionable just as i remember the first 3 fouls on the blazer centers being complete garbage.
