Blazers battle refs.

but I have noticed that if I look at the game day thread of the other team, someone is always there claiming the refs are conspiring against THEM, so I just don’t get too worked up anymore.

some times. This was an example of that. There were at least 6 calls that were blatantly wrong. I don’t think it was rigged, just terrible officiating. I think the NBA should review the tapes and address this somehow. If the flop rule was in place magette would be paying big time.

going to bed angry!

Cause man that would help keep my blood pressure down during games like this. Did the refs confuse aldridge with pryz or something. But hey that see through breakaway jersey rudy had on during that last play was pretty slick!!!! The way it reached out and grabbed that guys hand that was crazy!!!!

but i hear it was quite controversial?

But it wasn’t much worse than Portland in the 2nd quarter. The Blazers did as much of a job of shooting themselves in the foot tonight as anyone. Many turnovers, offensive rebounds given up, etc etc etc. The game was up for grabs, but Portland didn’t grab it.
Chicago is going to get destroyed tomorrow.

quote from AP PRESS

“Fernandez then was called for holding on the inbounds play, and the Spanish star compounded his obvious foul by drawing a technical foul for arguing. Morrow hit all three free throws to ice it.”

RUKIDDINGME?!!?!!?

on the bright side this team does not seem to be as affected by bad calls as squads in the past, but that just makes it even more frustrating. To see these guys just playing through it and playing hard, and watching it be stolen from them.

The Minni game is a good example. Portland is getting very close to that kind of rare air. I wanted that win tonight in the worst way.

There are going to be a lot of borderline calls in a game that sloppy.

Greg Oden traveled a lot. He shuffled his feet and got away with it. If the Refs wanted to kill the Blazers wouldn’t they have made more calls against Oden?

Let’s not get crazy here. There was a lot of contact by both teams. Rudy and Morrow were both holding each other. The call was borderline, but not ridiculous.

but I have to agree with rick C. We are close to getting to that level of being a team that wins on really bad nights. We almost won tonight turning the ball over 20 times, shooting an abysmal % from the FT line, getting out rebounded, out hustled, out scrapped, and ran. The fact that the game was so close was really quite astonishing to me….well maybe not. We did have some guy who is officially a draft bust crushing everyone in his path. He might have had something to do with us keeping it close.

he always does.

The NBA is my favorite sport to watch, but I LOVE the NCAA tournament.

There are 65 games every year in the NCAA tourney (right?). I watch as many as I possibly can.

I can’t remember ONE game from any NCAA tournament that I thought was decided by one bad call or a ref. Not one. The only game I can remember where the refs were even bad was Oregon’s loss to Florida a couple years back (or maybe it was last year?)… The difference there was that the Ducks played a terrible game as well.

The Blazers didn’t play well tonight, but neither did the Warriors. The bottom line is that this game came down to something more than the two teams on the court. Are college refs really that much better than NBA refs? Really? Something has to be going on here.

Can anybody name just one ref who has ever been implicated in any way of wrong doing?

they admit when the yuck is all up

not to denegrate the entire league because a few times the game gets tipped a little by the refs. I mean, at least the church has never been politically motivated and engaged in foul play….

"Posted by BlazerMVP on 11/18/08 at 11:39PM

Contact: John Litvin
NBA President for League and Basketball Operations

Contact him at:

1-212-407-8000Press #1 for dial by directorySpell the last name for Litvin

Let’s bombard his inbox, as the ref association actually reports to him!

"Ronald L. Johnson, a two-star general who recently retired from active duty as deputy commanding general of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, will be responsible for all aspects of the NBA’s officiating program, including recruiting, training and development, scheduling, data management and analysis, and work rules enforcement.

Johnson will report to Joel Litvin, the NBA’s president for league and basketball operations." "

The refs CAN’T be THAT blind. But to tell the truth, the officiating tonight didn’t seem all that much worse than NBA standard. Clearly, the league wants paying customers to go home happy, so the visiting team really needs to dominate in order to come away with a win. That’s just the way it is—even in the Rose Garden. I don’t like it, but it’s reality.

Bottom line: the Blazers—even as tired as they were—had no business letting the Warriors come close enough to beating them for the refs to matter. This current Blazer squad is so deep that even the ref’s ultimate weapon—putting a key player in foul trouble—shouldn’t hurt vs an opponent like the Warriors. I’m sorry: this current Warriors team just isn’t very good. And I’m a Bay Area native!

Stop blaming the refs

… so I have no opinion on the quality of the officiating.

However, just looking at the boxscore, I’d point to the missed free throws as a bigger factor than GS getting more calls.

(Granted, number of calls is not the only factor – I understand that when a foul is called can have a big impact.)

The reffs are too into their fantasy basketball teams trying to beat the other people in the league, not to mention betting big money on it too

Was busy with other stuff last night … but I caught little bits and pieces and it seemed like, every time I looked, Maggette was flopping around like a fish out of water. What kind of BS is that? Oden gets the ball and turns toward the basket, Maggette collapses in a heap and – bang! – offensive foul. Saw another one where he flopped when LaMarcus looked at him … bang! offensive foul. Total garbage calls.

the NBA is as rigged as pro wrestling. After last night, he may not be far off.

yup i agree

I didn’t see any calls that were too out of line. Aldridge deserved those four early fouls… except maybe one where it looked like his defender threw himself into aldridge a little to draw the contact. I believe they call that the game within the game though.

The Rudy call sounds like a bad call, but you play so you’re not in the position to be there in the first place.

We outplayed you so bad if the calls were right we woul dhave had garbage time and won by 20!

Win with class and lose with class. Man what a bunch of freakin cry babies! I can not wait to beat your asses again and see what excuse you have next time.