without a full head of steam? it just takes a little common sense. maggette is ripped and aldridge is small for his size..but maggette goes flying and refs believe it????????????
He puts his shoulder down and dislodged him. Repeatedly. Was Maggette letting himself be knocked over? Sure. Does that mean it's not an offensive foul? No. Ed O.
That wasn't Corey Maggette. That was Corey Laimbeer. He's still in the lockerroom getting dressed. Someone pointed a hair dryer at him and it blew him over.
The only real offensive foul was that one play where Aldridge clearly swiped him away with the off arm. All the other ones were flops.
Maggette looking over at the ref while falling backward should be evidence enough that it was a flop. On the other hand, LMA should have been smart enough to not get baited into the same move repeatedly. How else is a smaller player going to guard him?
Aldridge was put in a tough situation. You want him to take advantage of his size, but when the defender constantly flops and gets the call, the advantage is zilch. Thought the NBA was cracking down on flopping. Guess not.
After that first one, Nellie, Phil Jax, Popovich, Sloan, etc. would have been all over the ref. It wouldn't have reversed the call, but there darn sure wouldn't be 4 more just like it. That's on Nate. And I don't mean that in a "Nate should be fired" way. I mean it in a "Nate knows better...he shouldn't let his team get punked like that" way
Totally. Mags flopped like a bitch but Aldridge made little effort to make any moves. You'd think he would stop trying to just lower the shoulder and overpower Mags after the first one or two times but he did it three or four times. Mags flopped but Aldridge put himself in a situation where the refs had to call it. He was lowering the shoulder, Maggette kept his feet planted and hit the deck- that's an offensive foul. Aldridge has plenty of skills to score on Maggette with. He refused to do anything but lower his shoulder and Maggette took advantage every time.
Flopping is part of the game and its been going on for a few years now. It takes awhile to get good at it, but a lot of veterans use it to their advantage. We need to adapt and start flopping ourselves. Heck, outside of Roy we have no one who ever even tries to attempt to draw a foul when they put the ball on the floor.
3 of his 4 offensive fouls were bogus calls. He got one he deserved. This was a very poorly officiated game - but the Blazer's 2nd unit really cost us the game in the 2nd quarters with the amounts of turn-overs they had.
Indeed. they looked completely shell shocked with Nellieball in full effect and were out of control, both physically and you could feel it psychologically from their body language. I'll credit the Warriors though for being a very scrappy team, that had the ability to take the Blazers completely out of their game.
The Warriors are good. We do not give them enough credit - S-Jax is a very smart player, Morrow is unconscious shooting that ball and even CJ Watson ran around Sergio in the 2nd quarter and killed him. It's a shame that Sergio did not start playing some defense until the 4th quarter. Yes, his shot went down OK and he even attacked the rim a couple times - but with his deficiencies on defense - he can't take a minute off - I am OK with him trying and getting burned by someone - I understand that defense is not his strongest part - but not trying at all in the 2nd quarter. Ugh. The only two from the Blazers that seemed to play proper perimeter defense were Batum (loved his hustle, got burned a couple of time - but I am OK with this for a rookie) and Bayless. We need to see more than 4 minutes of play from Bayless. He might make mistakes on offense and he might turn the ball over a little as he adjusts - but his perimeter D against quick perimeter players is miles better than either Blake or Sergio.
Fuck flopping. It's for pussies like Turiaf and AmMo. It's lawyer ball for those that can't win the game straight up.
I was thinking about him this morning with Derrick Rose looming. Is there any Blazers guard who even has a snowball's chance in hell of keeping in front of Rose aside from Bayless? I know it would see kind of unorthodox to throw B-Rex to the wolves tonight after only being in game situations for about 10 minutes this season, but maybe his 4 minutes of run last night is a sign?
I sure hope so. I am not sure I can see many more games of Sergio being taken to school by pretty lackluster PGs... shudder to think what Rose would do to him.
The problem isn't just Sergio or Blake being taken to school (more like taken out behind the wood shed) it's the fact that all of that dribble penetration collapses our defense and leaves shooters wide open, not too mention exposing our bigs to foul trouble. Tonight could get really ugly.
