Another hour and a half to go. The tension is thick. Who gets banned before the game even starts? LOL
Crying? I have no tears... I just think SlyPokerDog is the poster child Eeyore... Nothing wrong with that. Every ying needs a yang. The pessimism is strong with you. I am your father!
Attention some of you: Tonight should be the busiest night of posting in the forum. There will be no way I can keep up with reading all of your wonderful posts and watching the game. The personal insults MUST STOP! Final warning. If not I will suspend you for the duration of the game. If it even looks like an insult you will be suspended. We all want the Blazers to win. What some of you are arguing about is kinda goofy. I'm asking you to please stop. Thanks
I mis-typed. I believe the legal term is "suspended". And I think it may have been one of the prior games.
The reffing has favored the Rockets in every game so far....if Portland wants to win, they'll have to over come it. I wish we had a fair competition, but I'm getting tired of watching these bouts where one team is handicapped by refs.
The Rockets have shot more FT's than us in 3 games Game 1 FTA 40-39 PF 33-32 Game 2 FTA 30-27 PF 27-28 Game 3 FTA 22-28 PF 28-24 Game 4 FTA 38-30 PF 27-24 Game 5 FTA 18-23 PF 21-21 BLAZERS CALLED FOR 7 FEWER FOULS IN SERIES AND FTA ARE COMPLETELY EVEN FOR THE SERIES It's like some of you just like to make shit up.
Earth to MM. It's not about FTA's. It's about altering the momentum of the game with untimely bad calls, quality not quantity.
I've seen this argument that seems to say that games are only officiated equally if both teams have the same number of fouls called and shoot the same number of free throws. That presumes, erroneously IMO, that all teams do everything at the same rate. If teams performed perfectly equally, there would be no sense in playing the games. They don't. Some teams foul more, turnover the ball less, shoot a better percentage, play worse defense, box out and rebound better.... All things are not equal, so why should foul calls be equal? I have never understood the argument.
Yep and we did 3 times to Houston's 2. So far, according to your logic, we are the better team. Next...
So what has been the points in the paint so far this series? I am about to go night night from some awesome drugs that would make Mags jealous. Has either team shot more in the paint?
I'll jump on that bandwagon. Blazers are lousy at working the refs. It works for some teams who work the refs proactively. They razz the refs even when they know they are wrong, because they know they'll get a freebee sooner or later. The Blazers have historically done it reactively, which is seen as whining, does not work, and takes you out of the game. Blazers have to ignore the calls, ignore the refs, and focus on the job at hand. Us fans on the other hand, are free to be drunk and obnoxious about it.
