well 7 of the fouls were intentional fouls by portland at the end of the games. so those are explained pretty easily. oden has consistently been called for cheap fouls regardless of the opposition so if we assume that oden will have two completely garbage foul calls against him per game, that's 4 more fouls easily explained. take away those fouls and the advantage drops down to 43 to 36. that seems like a pretty reasonable amount to think that it might just be the difference between a team with a great defensive reputation and the effect of them playing at home rather than some conspiracy about the nba not wanting the blazers to win in houston. these are my two favorite teams and i wish they weren't playing in the first round. i was mad at the start of the game when the calls were favoring houston and then mad again when the calls swung the other way and started favoring portland. but i don't think anything was out of line either way to suggest the refs in any way decided game 4 and i think the 4th quarter was officiated pretty well and fairly and that the players were able to decide the game. i actually was hoping the blazers would pull this one out to make it much more likely that the series goes 7 games. that didn't happen and now i would like the blazers to at least win game 5 to send things back to houston and see what happens from there.
