“They were very physical," coach Rick Adelman said. "They put their hands on him. They wrestled with him from the top of the key all the way down.

Yeah Joel is really being physical.

they were being physical against Yao but I feel sometimes makes it look like they are wrestling him and freaks out. Pryz and Oden were just trying to front him and a lot of the time Yao would obviously try to step in front of them (that’s what I would do) and they would deny him and Yao would fling his arms up.

Then you have the one time when Oden was fronting him then Yao locked Oden’s arm turned towards the ref like Oden was holding him and was acting. Not to mention Oden fouled out and Pryz had 5 fouls… and also LMA had 5 fouls. So it wasn’t like calls werent being made.

Yao had contact with Roy on many a drive to the lane that went uncalled.

that apparently he had no trouble with the Game #1 referees, who called more fouls on the Blazers than the Rockets….

And BTW, the Rockets would have been called for fewer fouls in Game #2 as well except for the fact that they fouled intentionally at the end of the game. 28 fouls for the Rockets, 26 for the Blazers.

This is a really hard series to Ref, both teams are playing really physical. They could foul out just about every player if they wanted to. How they are choosing the fouls to call is what i have a problem with.

Did Yao have a single one?

and complainer. I don’t think he’s ever gotten a call that he didn’t whine about.
At least he was real about it. I thought the same thing. For the first few minutes they were calling everything. Then they started to let them play a little more but still made some small calls.