Reaction to an Oden Foul

by saveourbluths on Dec 5, 2009 10:37 AM PST

yes, sometimes Oden makes curious decisions on D. and they lead to fouls. but as many, many people have said there are a lot of legitimately horrible calls against him.

this is what i want to see that may or not help anything. i want to see Oden or Macmillan get tossed for arguing. someone needs to says something; some kind of anger or frustration needs to be expressed instead this look of defeat they show. now i dont know if ive missed an incident of Mac passionately arguing being on the brink of getting thrown out...but i havent seen it. and u certainly havent seen it out of Oden.. but i think other coaches, when egregious errors are made, sometimes go off on refs in support of their players.

anyway, thats what i want to see once or twice. i dont know if it will help anything, but it will be better than just exasperated/frustrated reactions every single time with no escalation. it would be a nice statement from my point of view.

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TSHBAFS

but I agree

by CatMan2 on Dec 5, 2009 11:36 AM PST reply actions

McMillan did get a T

in the last game. It was only about a minute or two in on Oden’s second foul/non-foul.

by Jeffe Portland on Dec 5, 2009 12:26 PM PST reply actions

I'm not a good lip reader but...

Mac had more than a few choice words in that last game and it did pay off with no additional Oden calls til the 4th quarter. That seems stupid to me that complaining actually works so well in the NBA.

Roy is a student of the game and he uses his complaining to shape the game. I just wish he would continue to run up court while he whined. I compare it to spanking, it has a place but if you do it all the time it just proves you’re a jackass.

by Jacksonville on Dec 5, 2009 12:40 PM PST up reply actions

Nate had an audible F-bomb.

You could barely hear it but it was there.

He would’ve got another T and tossed later on but Monty Williams pulled him back.

Nothing Witty Here, move along.

by DaNoose on Dec 5, 2009 2:07 PM PST up reply actions

He had two, actually...

He got T’d up the first time and the refs were most merciful the second…

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by timbo on Dec 5, 2009 3:15 PM PST up reply actions

yeah, good T to

oneal flung oden across the paint and they called greg for grabbing his arm to keep from falling, horrible call, nate should have gotten T’d. I had to apologize to people around me when i was done yelling at that one

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by PDXBuckeye on Dec 5, 2009 4:11 PM PST up reply actions

What would either of them getting kicked out do to help our cause?

I don’t think so…

"Rudy is not everyday a shooter," Fernandez said. "He's defense. He's passes. He's assists."

by jebuz on Dec 5, 2009 1:33 PM PST reply actions

well, it would let the team know that their leader feels very deeply about what it is that he was complaining about and that he was willing to cross the line to express it.

Alot of the time, all I need is the encouragement to carry on the good fight to continue to fight…

I think if my coach was to get thrown out of the game over something that I thought was B.Sandwich too, I’d try as I might to get that one for the cause of being right… in our minds anyway.

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by faith on Dec 5, 2009 2:36 PM PST up reply actions

So it's more about motivating the team to play harder than getting the refs to act differently?

"Rudy is not everyday a shooter," Fernandez said. "He's defense. He's passes. He's assists."

by jebuz on Dec 5, 2009 3:11 PM PST up reply actions

You're right.

But sometimes you have to do things that make no practical sense.

I feel that the officiating in the NBA is a disgrace, and I’m open to pretty much anything that at least leads to a discussion of this.

I have to admit, though, that I have no idea how to improve things other than to have additional refs on the floor, but that might also worsen the situation. More replays would slow the game down to a snail’s pace.

I sometimes imagine that the game would be better without ANY rules enforced. Or maybe they should do it like we did on the playground: teams alternate getting their way on a disputed play. That might work if you limited the number of disputes called by each team to some small number. It would introduce another level of strategy. As for when things get too physical, well fighting is a part of some sports—hockey, at least. Come to think of it, it would be fun to see penalties and power plays introduced to basketball. But I dijest.

I should also add that I agree with the general argument that the Blazers don’t lose games “because of” poor officiating. There are usually many reasons—and most of them within the power of the players and coaches to affect—why they lose games. Or win them.

by CatMan2 on Dec 5, 2009 2:51 PM PST up reply actions