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I just know Tiago is going to be in foul trouble early in Game 2. Solid analysis btw. Yes, most of us noticed. Maybe the NBA just wants to keep games interesting. Who knows.
Not usually one to complain about refereeing but it was pretty noticeable. Even some of the reactions from the Spurs players showed some of their frustration, including Duncan who was reacting from the bench after Portland took 12 free throws from the final 5:50 of the 3rd.
The fans began chanting "Refs you suck" during that stretch.
Portland trailed by 26 at halftime. By the end of the 3rd quarter Portland had 27 FTA. The Blazershad 16 FTA in the 3rd quarter. The Referees were, seemingly, trying to keep the game relatively close.
That is something i've noticed throughout the post season, when a team is pulling away the trailing team seems to be much more likely to get to the free throw line.
After the Spurs maintained the lead through the end of the 3rd quarter, The game was more evenly officiated.
The Spurs had 7 FTs attempted in the 3rd quarter and 8 in the 4th quarter, to the Blazers 4 free throws attempted.
Portland, who trailed the entire second half, had only 11 attempts in the 1st half but 20 in the second half.
They finished with 31 attempts (connecting on 26 of them , 84%) Aldridge, who was in a particularly bad slump took 7 of his 9 foul shots in the 3rd quarter, scoring 6 points.
I just know Tiago is going to be in foul trouble early in Game 2. Solid analysis btw. Yes, most of us noticed. Maybe the NBA just wants to keep games interesting. Who knows.
Yeah they were going out of their way to keep the Blazers "in the game." Just inconsistently called touch fouls in favor of Portland, not that I'm complaining because it didn't matter, but it's always a black mark on the league when reffing inconsistencies like this are so blatant.
There was one play where Tiago literally stood straight up with his hands in the air and they gave free throws to aldridge, although I think that play may have been in the first half.
If you're complaining about refs now, wait until the games are in Portland..
There was one sequence in the second half where Parker was called for a ridiculous push off, and then Wes Matthews was called for a similar ridiculous "touch" foul that probably wasn't a foul (even though reggie miller vehemently claimed that it was). I thought the call on Matthews was in response to the "refs you suck" chants.
The refs overall did a pretty poor job this game, although it didn't affect the outcome so it doesn't really matter.
I commented on this downstairs. It sucks when your team is bulldozing the out of another team, you can expect the NBA to hook them up for things to be "entertaining". Fortunately it didn't matter with how the Spurs were playing, but there were lots of bs calls. Diaw just started laughing at some of the .
The calls in Portland will be terrible. Like others have said, I expect Tiago to get 3 fouls by the first half when in Portland.
If he continues guard LMA, then yes, he will. Even if Aldridge wasn't skilled at drawing contact, he's still LaMarcus Aldridge and the refs are going to give him those calls a lot.
Imagine the calls Okc will get tomorrow after that overly-corny speech Durant made today when he won MVP.If you're complaining about refs now, wait until the games are in Portland
this...If you're complaining about refs now, wait until the games are in Portland
But on top of that, Tony Brothers is easily one of the worst refs in the league... not even saying there's a bias, he's just awful.
Plus after a full series where Monta Ellis traveled every single time he started a drive, Gino gets two called in like 2 mins... just inconsistent as .
It's all about fitting as many commercials as possible.
every up and under move Aldridge pulled was called for a foul vs a stationary Tiago in the 3rd
also the horrific foul where he tried to jump into him but didnt he make contact that was called for a coul
Lillard had one play where he drove in the lane and Danny helped and didnt touch him
Lillard flopped hard on the replay and wasnt even touched
pretty much.If you're complaining about refs now, wait until the games are in Portland
Couple of fannies complaining. Spurs got great 'no' calls. Would explain more but drunk./
Tony Brothers is a terrible official tbh. Every game he's reffed, he always stands out due to terrible calls.
No one's complaining about a lack of calls, moron
Tony Brothers does make terrible calls. He doesn't really favor a team one way or the other during the games he refs, he just doesn't know what the he is doing. He may be re ed, I'm not sure.
If you want to see complaining, see any of my ref-bashing posts about OKC. That's complaining.
I hated hearing those chants. I think fans should only break them out in key situations.
FTA was like 24-10 Blazers at the end of the third, but when it became apparent the game was lost they made the box score look even. This is a frequent occurrence, you can almost never cite end of game box scores to show that OKC gets calls.
Tony Brothers is simply AWFUL. The new Leon Wood.
I think it was 27 to 17 in Portlands advantage.
How the were those LMA up and unders fouls? So basically you can't be stationary with two arms up, you have to move out of Lamarcus' way and put a red carpet for him all the way to the rim
Also, every Lillard drive was an automatic foul, one where Baynes just jumped up with arms up and Lillard bumped into him they gave him an And1, meanwhile Ginobili drove in like 5 or 6 times with decent contact and no foul. That was clearly to keep Portland in the game, and its a recurring theme with these refs. I'm not saying they are rigging in favor of team X and Y, but clearly they don't want certain teams to fall too much behind
I was talking to Harlem, who the are you?No one's complaining about a lack of calls, moron
Anyways you were asking fellows if they noticed the lack of calls in the 2nd half, and I guess I said stuff a pipe in it ya vag. Problem?
Keep an eye on this in other series as well. I'm sure the random FT trips will keep popping up when a team is up 10 to 15 points in the second half.
I am almost certain this happened in game 6 against Dallas. The refs kept calling questionable calls against the Spurs and Dallas stay around until the got going late.
It just seemed convenient that Dallas was trying to force a game 7 and the Game 7's tend to be ratings gold. Not that i'm in to conspiracies or anything.
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You literally referred to other posters in this thread whom you perceived to be "complaining" as "fannies" you incompetent muleheadYou can't even comprehend your own posts
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