Too bad that the crew blew so many critical calls. That said, for a team whose two main stars spend a great amount of effort every game trying to fool the refs into making calls in their favor, all I can say is karma's a bitch sometimes.
Interesting read. I would like to see the results if the Rockets did not include doubtful calls that could not be determined what was correct even after the video review. I think I could guess though that the referees were not happy to read this; especially the Rockets saying that older referees were most biased against them. I almost got the feeling last night that the referees were trying to make some kind of a point on some of the non-calls. BTW, I despise these two teams equally; just commenting on what I thought i saw.
James Harden is that cheating ex who just doesn’t understand why the Refs don’t trust him and won’t give him what he wants.
Agree. The thing I think is most interesting about this is the timing of the report being released. Right after feeling like they got hosed in yesterday’s game, suddenly a report that was never officially filed with the league just happens to get leaked to the press. Not exactly subtle. I suspect the league will come down hard on the Rockets for releasing this.
Also, I'm not sure if I agree or not with "crediting" points that came from overcoming bad calls to the team that fouled. Like, if Curry was fouled and it was uncalled and then he hits a three-pointer, the Rockets counted it as more points they lost because if the foul had been called, Curry would be shooting free throws and never hits the three. It makes "alternate universe" sense, but I'm not sure that's how a team should be figuring out how much they were screwed by bad calls.
