FREE GREG ODEN
refs open ur damn eyes
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Amazing.
The ref who called it was just 5 feet away! So weak.
Actually, on second thought
A bunch of those are genuine fouls on GO.
The foul on felton (2) is exactly the kind of thing Greg has to stop—it will always be called (until he’s a multi-season All-Star & grizzled veteran, at least). The tangle-up with Kurt Thomas? Dirty play by KT, but commonly called a double-foul. Good, filthy, wily veteran baiting the big rook.
Only legit foul in those clips is when Felton runs into his shuffling legs.
Blazers should be sending tapes to the league office about this nonsense.
"These are dreams that we have." --Rudolfo Fernandez
You're right, it's not a foul, but it's often called a double foul
guys get tangled, ref doesn’t really see it (he’s watching the ball), guys tumble, ref calls double foul.
Happens all the time—Artest & Rodman made careers out of it.
I hate to say it but Oden needs to start comlaining more...
Squeaky wheels get greased in the NBA
Rooo-D!
Maybe, but I think Nate and Roy complaining would do more good.
"The best team in the county right now wears green and goes quack, quack." -Chris Dufresne, LA Times
formerly rockingharder
Yes!
I’ve been wanting our “leaders” to do this for a while now.
You see Dre do it...
I agree. Nate doesn’t seem to think he should complain, but man, somebody has to.
Mark Cuban
says “hi”
(and writes yet another check to David Stern…)
When reached 40 years of following Portland basketball you have, be as passionate of the Trail Blazers you will not!
not when teh squeak is coming from a second year player who commits lots of stupid fouls and should smashy smash every game
I love GO and want him to break spirits and make opposing players’ women weep tears of anguish, but dude does get himself in foul trouble. Everyone (except the top All-Stars, maybe) gets victimized by bad calls from time to time. Everyone.
wow
but the foul on YAO takes the cake…i mean that trumps everything else…that is the WORST foul call i have EVER seen
yeah, it's a bad one. But far from the worst--at least they touched each other. Search around YouTube for "bad NBA calls" and you'll find some on guys a meter apart--or more.
Refs are fallible. And sometimes in the bag (if we’re to believe Donaghy)
When a kid gets caught and rats out his friends
it’s the first time he’ll be honest about whatever he did.
I'm a really really ridiculously good looking orange mocha frappaccino drinking manhammer sandwich
actually
if I got caught doing something bad, I’m going to try and incriminate everyone else and make myself look like the victim of a system, that way you look better in relation and you hope that you stir up enough of a stink that parties will settle to shut you up.
Note: this is a general statement to be used when caught racketeering or whatever, not for trying to talk one’s way out of a speeding ticket.
Come on you gotta listen unto me,
lay off that whiskey and let that cocaine be. ~Johnny Cash
by HurraKane212 on Nov 15, 2009 7:42 PM PST up reply actions 1 recs
I'm pretty sure
that the players are still allowed to touch in the NBA (for how much longer I am not sure, though). Maybe the correct play is to just offer Yao some tea on his way to set up shop right at hoop.
Not quite, this one is.
"I don't play for what they write about me...I play for my teammates, my coaches, the city of Portland." - Steve Blake
Not quite this one is...(with link sorry)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-igP_XG-kCo
"I don't play for what they write about me...I play for my teammates, my coaches, the city of Portland." - Steve Blake
by hohowan on Nov 16, 2009 11:25 AM PST up reply actions 1 recs
LOL, that is great
I'm a really really ridiculously good looking orange mocha frappaccino drinking manhammer sandwich
I'm surprised he didn't have Greg's offensive foul ...
against the Bobcats in there. When Greg received the ball and turned into his man, knocking him over, it sure looked like his defender’s feet were on the dotted line. If so, defensive foul. But what did they call? Of course …
"These are dreams that we have." --Rudolfo Fernandez
Yep, I remember that one.
His feet were on the line. Just his heels, so it’s easy for a ref to miss it, but it was the wrong call.
I love this... huge REC
Let’s get True Hoop, Ball Don’t Lie, etc. in on this… that way the NBA may actually notice their refs targeting the kid. They want him to be a superstar, but the refs are standing in the way.
Donaghy Is Right!
The second foul against the Bobcats PLEASE GO was dominating the paint and then refs realize that that isn’t Howard or Shaq. Tweet there goes the 2nd foul. I wish coach didn’t advertise the fact that he always takes GO after 2 early fouls for the rest of the half, teams are going to do everything they can to get him on the bench.
I wish just once on these lame calls GO would go off. So what he gets a technical foul atleast they would stop and think. Great sight keep up the good work.
This is going to be my time. Time to taste the fruits and let the juices drip down my chin. I proclaim this the season of Greg!"
Bingo...
And Mike and Mike should shut up about this strategy too! Geesh, how dumb can you get? “Hey everybody, if you drive right at Greg a few times and get him two fouls, you won’t have to worry about him for the rest of the half…” Just dumb strategy, and it’s ludicrously stupid to advertise your dumb strategy to the rest of the league! Duh!
Hazed
The worst part is how much of our total success hinges on Greg’s performances, and how easy it would be to “regulate” our wins and losses this way, (especially in big games). The NBA had needed to clean up the officiating mess for a long time — it kills the product.
by Sound_Automatic on Nov 16, 2009 12:55 PM PST reply actions
Another point:
Notice Greg didn’t get into foul trouble during preseason with the replacement refs? Curious. I think the league’s refs are definitely biased.
True.
Greg was making a living at the free throw line too. Less calls against him, and more calls for him with the replacement refs.
My favorite teams are the Blazers and any team that is playing the Lakers.
by OCBlazerFan1 on Nov 16, 2009 3:14 PM PST up reply actions
as I had said...
I have NO issue with the replacement refs and would have preferred to have kept them. My guess is htey were calling REAL fouls.
"Fernandez, to my eyes, is the Blazer who walks that walk most comfortably. A lot of Portland's fans (egged on, dare I say, by their local broadcasters) lament things like how Ron Artest or Yao Ming get to hit Brandon Roy's arms.
But I suspect Fernandez sees all that and thinks: We get to hit arms! Cool!"
http://myespn.go.com/blogs/truehoop/0-39-135/On-Playoff-Experience.html
"I told Pau the Lakers never win here in Portland; I think it's great." -- Rudy Fernandez
I never got to see them, but was excited to get new blood.
But, the 90 fouls a game they called seemed excessive. It’s not like the regular refs would go ahead and match that right away:)
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damn refs
are rediculous.. we want to watch the players not the damn refs. This needs to be braught to david stern. Jeezus, nothing wrong with a hard d.
by blazermania92983 on Nov 16, 2009 2:06 PM PST reply actions
bowdown you own that youtube account right? I own the domain www.freeoden.com and i’ve been wanting to get it going for a while now (primarily wanted it to focus on Oden obviously but highlight how ridiculous the calls are against him) but obviously running a little website by myself takes a bit of work. I’m looking for people who can atleast contribute with videos if not more…
-brandonmitchell.org
by brandonmitchell on Nov 16, 2009 6:59 PM PST reply actions
Guy is putting up a website. I subscribed to his youtube, so should all fans of the NBA.
It’s sad how he can’t play basketball. He has to play the way the refs want him to or he’s out of the game. The more he blocks shots, you know a foul is coming soon to get him on the bench.
The man needs to learn
This is how the game goes. Get used to it or prepare to sit on the bench. Mcmillan taking him out isnt helping either.
by ODEN on a stick on Nov 17, 2009 5:46 PM PST reply actions
please add two from the detroit game
1st foul for a moving screen on the first possession. absolute garbage.
3rd foul, a loose ball foul at the beginning of third quarter on an offensive rebound. greg literally did not touch the jerbko (might of been daye)
You know what's funny is the fact the...
The pre-season replacement refs called way more overall fouls than our regular season refs, but Oden got in way less foul trouble with them? Hmmm, that should add up should it? Maybe because they were just calling the game the best they could, while the regular refs call the game the way they want to. Oden makes stupid fouls at times, but no where to the degree he gets called now. If someone touches him, it’s a foul.
I agree GO seems to get shafted an awful lot
But I can’t imagine any league-wide conspiracy by the refs to keep him down. To what end? He’s a young, charismatic guy. The NBA wants him to be a star.
A question
G.O. has gotten what look like a lot of bad calls against him, although many were “self inflicted”. This year, he seems to be doing a lot better with moving his feet and not leaving his feet to make blocks. I think he’s gradually getting the idea.
Here’s my question. Did Shaq (who seems like the closest to G.O. in terms of his size and build among recent centers) have this sort of foul problems when he first came into the league? It seems like Shaq gets whistled fairly rarely throughout his career. I haven’t checked his stats to verify that. Maybe playing in LA was why he got more favorable treatment. I wonder if G.O. played there if he’d get better calls?
Gary
From what I remember, NO
Shaq was an immediate force when he entered the league, acting as though he was in his third year his rookie season. He didn’t have bad foul problems, scored at will, and rebounded with the best in the league. The only areas he sucked at were passing, dribbling, and freethrows.
Oden is in so many ways different than Shaq RIGHT NOW, but I think by the time Oden’s career is over they will have had VERY similar careers and style of play.
"Tough times don't last. Tough people do."
-Chauncey Billups
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