There were tons of bad calls on both sides but I think a few of the things that went on in the OT gave the edge to Houston. Sure a final call was missed on Howard and Beverly fouled on, not on a phantom call but a ticky tack call, but LA fouled out on a screen call that is NEVER called and the call vs Lopez was horrible then you had 3 times in the final minute the beard led with his shoulder knocking a blazer back and no foul, or Howard just throwing people to the ground and nothing is called. How about that Garcia travel/jumpball/throwing elbows for 7s and finally its called a foul on us. You can point to many calls on either side but the Blazer got the win and the Rockets got the "sorry we fucked up" that every Blazer fan can remember from Scott Fisher. I don't think the Rockets board necessarily has more delusional homers then any other board but I'm not going to discredit them over this since I was fairly certain while watching the OT that whatever team won the other fanbase was going to be running to hang the refs from the highest tree possible and then use there lifeless bodies as target practice.
No mention of Howard having no business being in the game in the first place? He threw down Freeland the play before and was allowed to shoot two free throws. It should have been Blazer ball tied at 119.
I would have been fine with Howard in the game. His +/- was -5, and we won by two. If he would have stayed in, we would have won by more.
So uh is cmeese47 actually Mixum or something? What gives here? No real Blazer fan would be that blinded. He's either a Houston fan or a troll. There were clearly terrible fouls calls on both sides.
He wishes he could be as good of a troll as Mixum. He came over with a few other posters from another forum when this one was made the official Blazer forum. His posts just seems to read like a pessimistic Blazer fan who doesn't like to give the Blazers credit but instead say we got lucky.
LA set a moving pick in the back court even during the regular season back court picks tend to draw fouls it was a foolish play of his part. Nobody on Portland stays up close enough to Harden to draw the offensive foul on the shoulder lean in basically you have to take that one right in the chest if you want a foul call. The Lopez call might have been bad if he was not standing under his own rim, basically meaning they have to call him for contact whether Dwight initiated it or not. But I wil agree that the refs would have drawn ire from either side regardless.
Watch the replay on the Freeland never got in front of Howard and was off balance trying to arm fight him for position, Howard did not throw him down, he may do some shady things at times like his favorite arm grab but that was not one of them.
I am sorry I am not buying the whole the refs were out to get Portland thing. The most brought up bad calls against Portland are barely defendable, the Lopez foul was clearly a foul on him that is what happens in the post the guy with the ball initiates contact and tries to get you out of the way. Lopez was never set, did not go straight up and Howard ended up on the floor they have to call a foul there on Lopez. Howard did not push Freeland down he fell fighting for position, and we got lucky the foul was called because if not Howard jams the offensive rebound and likely draws an and 1. Sure they butchered a couple calls against Portland but refs miss calls every game but it is not every game the NBA says they fucked up.
I'm gonna guess you think the gut punch shouldn't have been called a foul or a technical as well. There were bad calls on both sides...you don't have to prove your impartiality by taking anti-Blazer positions all the time. Just be a normal dude.
Meh, dudes like him are a lost cause. They didn't see the entire picture. Someone in an earlier post counted the fouls up; including phatoms, etc for fourth quarter. Tons of blown calls, and in the fourth+OT, Houston favorable calls outdid Portland favorable calls. The entire fact that Houston went 40FTA's in just a half is just crazy. That type of refereeing is terrible and it was evident.
I posed the question earlier, because I think it's an important one. Exactly how many FTs should Houston have shot in the first half? I know they shot zero, but how many bad calls were there that denied them free throw attempts? Five? Ten? Fifteen? How many?
How dare we not apologize?!? http://blog.chron.com/ultimaterockets/2014/04/blazers-not-apologizing-for-nbas-wrong-call-on-foul/
I will when Howard apologizes for all the elbows he gave Lopez, and he admits he should have been called for a foul when he elbowed Lopez (who was just standing there and got called for a foul). Sounds fair, right?
picture 1 on that page is a pretty good view of what should have been a jump ball call, that led to Garcia I believe getting FTs
