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lol blaming the refs and not Porker
Why do the refs love OKC so much......Never saw so many bad calls.....
lol blaming the refs and not Porker
Blame him for his 10/16 shooting to lead the Spurs in scoring? Maybe if anyone else could hit a shot. Quit acting like we didn't get screwed by the refs like 2012.
And Poop ain't gonna say about it.
They wanted the series prolonged and they got it.
give more rest for curry....
I don't ever blame the refs, but they are not helping one bit. I don't remember such a biased series.
No, we're playing a good team. Actually we're playing a great team that's been injured and is just now finding their rhythm. They flew under the radar this year but we see them now. If the Spurs are better, we'll win. If not we won't. It is what it is.
Wow that game was extremely physical. Needless to say, Spurs were not the most physical team. Crazy how inconsistent NBA officiating is from game to game. I didn't think the refs were necessarily bad, but they let a lot of stuff go, particularly on players crashing the offensive glass and checking the ball handler.
The problem in this league is that we know the refs by name because there are so few and they get used so often. We should see officiating as one en y, not variable based on ref name, but we don't.
Being sore losers is a ty thing, it's chicken and you ers should be ashamed.
Getting the Thunder in the bonus in the first 2 minutes... Every quarter
They're not a great team, they're terrible to end games other than tonight.
The 2012 WCF comes to mind in a hurry.
OKC came out shoving on every pick and rebound. Spurs never matched that intensity.
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Well what can you do....Refs will probably do the same in SA.....
Spurs were being physical officiating was a bit skewed at times by not letting both teams just go at it. If they had I think spurs would have pulled away at halftime. But this isn't why they lost.
Rebounding
3pt Shooting
Defensively spurs looked good. If we lose because Waiters is hitting 3pt shots and Durant is making absurd difficult contested shots. You live with those Ls.
I don't see their support cast making those deep shots the rest of the series consistently.
Refs def burned Spurs.
Mustache and Borat allowed to do all kinds of shoving for position for offensive rebounds. Many times an obvious foul. Spurs rung up instead.
Examples?
4th qtr 95-91 OKC when GNob got great position after Adams shoved West.
Prior to that Kanter shoving West to get position for the O rebound and putback.
Spurs have to be razor sharp to overcome the ref factor. That is just a fact.
Just re watched the 3rd.
ThundeRef all the way.
Spurs actually played fantastic in the 3rd.
8 on 5 most def.
The three fouls on Green to free up media darling Durant were gagging. Marv tried bringing it up but Jackson would go on some long rant about a previous play, defecting attention. Yep I think ABC the Caitlyn Station wants Curry to be completely rested and the Spurs disadvantaged.
it's why I said Spurs in 7, I knew the officiating would be a joke. No matter the commish, it's the same old with the thunder and this league.
I have no problem with the refs allowing physical play but it needs to be consistent both ways. Kawhi was getting hacked on one end without getting calls, then Durant gets a bunch of touch fouls on the other.
If you're curious, I think the likely Game 5 crew chief is James Capers. There are 7 chiefs working in this round (Foster, Mauer, McCutchen, Crawford, Callahan, Capers, Davis). 5 of those have already worked this series and aren't likely to be in a Game 5, leaving only Mike Callahan and James Capers as crew chiefs who haven't worked in this series. Callahan is working tonight in Portland, so process of elimination says Capers. It could be someone else, but to get there, the league would either have to dramatically shake up its usual methods of assigning crew chiefs to playoff series or pick a brand new crew chief for these playoffs late in Round 2; each of those things seems unlikely.
Harder to guess the crew, but it seems most likely to come from a pool of the following candidates: Pat Fraher, Ron Garretson, John Goble, Jason Phillips, and Sean Wright. If I had to guess, I'd posit that Goble is one of them, since he's worked a couple of games in these playoffs on Capers' crew (including Game 4 of Spurs/Grizzlies). Again, there are a few other options, but to get to those, the league would either have to change up its usual methods of assignment or put a very inexperienced official (like Bennie Adams with 2 career games past the first round, Kane Fitzgerald (1), Courtney Kirkland (1), Josh Tiven (2)) on a very high stakes game, which would be unusual.
Exactly. One play that stands out is Kanter dislodging Diaw hard with his shoulder twice in the same play with his shoulder in the post, then fading away and getting a touch foul called on Diaw.
Here's the thing I think we have to remember about the nba, game refs, and how the games get called. We all know that this is entertainment. The league markets entertainment for the profit of the team owners. If, for whatever reason, the league determines that the maximum entertainment dollar is going to be derived from marketing team or player X, then that team and/or that player is going to be the focus.
How does that impact a series between two small market teams? Two ways: one is that the smaller market teams' owners benefit from additional venue revenue if a series goes longer, and may be more dependent on that revenue stream than are larger market teams who get bigger broadcast revenues during the rs than smaller market teams do. The smaller market teams benefit from longer series both from venue sales and broadcast revenues in playoff series. The second way is that, when some series are blowouts in the playoffs, the broadcast vendors need something to show on the nights in between marquee matchups, while waiting for the teams like the Cavs and the Warriors to get ready for the next round.
Moral of the story? This is less about a conspiracy against one team or for another - it is simply the market logic of maximizing revenue overall for the league.
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