BS!

I hope the league reviews that “foul” and reprimands Crawford somehow. Nothing has gone our way this year. So is the life of a Blazer.

Destroy the Suns in 7!!!

2 year old stomping, folding arms, temper tantrums that Gentry does. That guy is a complete embarrassment. I think he even complains when the calls do go his way.

there are some really blind mice.

Unbelievable.

at some point you just have to wonder if Stern and crew are actually reviewing refs, and if so should that information be made more public (transparent officiating as Henry Abbott refers to). I would really, really like to get a response from the NBA on this one. But no, they will just sweep it under the rug. It didn’t lose us the game, but crap like this sure doesn’t help.

0-1 point swing

I feel like my dog died last night. I’m clearly not impartial. And I was confined to enjoy the game via Wheels and Ton last night, so my homerism was def. magnified.

I haven’t said this before but I’m saying now that the refs were absolutely influencing the game. Oh, sure, we probably could have found a way to win in spite of the refs (although no way to prove that). We can definitely question some coaching decisions, play making, etc.

But it remains the case that fouls matter. This one was the most egregious. But you also apparently had guys called for blocking fouls because they were inside the key, when they were not in the key. You had Dre called for a couple travels early. Two illegal defenses early, in a playoff game?

The fact that they tend to even out is moot. For one, it seemed like they made a bad call on guys like Roy and Camby, then “paid us back” with a bad call on Collins. Second you need to look at timing. Roy is coming back from an injury. Hey, maybe he’s late on defense and really did bump a guy, but he is our All Star right? Where’s that special treatment? How about just a little freaking courtesy!

Blah, Thats all i’ve got.

Yeah, watching the replay, the call is actually worse than I remember. Why was Crawford saying something about Nash being grabbed on the neck? What a strange, strange call.

It’s the fact that this call put Camby back on the bench. We were only down by 7 at this point. For me, this was not only a momentum changer, it was a game changer.

i didn’t realize it was that bad watching on TNT. that is awful

Even noticed that the free throw discrepancy was amazing! And that the Blazers were driving to the hole and getting nothing called.

Hill of course reacts like the foul is being called on him, for chucking Camby on the way through. It was the only possible foul on this play

thanks to the DVR. On the TNT feed it looked like Crawford eventually apologizes to Nate or one of the other officials after realizing that Nash should not be shooting the FT. Then, the following possession (for the Blazers) Crawford calls two touch fouls on the Suns. Make-up calls. At that point, the game lost some credibility to me.

Nice change of pace from some of the youtube stuff out there.

as PGs are known to do in FT situations. But after seeing Crawford blow a whistle while staring directly at Camby/Hill it is clear that Crawford is senile and should be fired. He has made so many absurd calls in the playoffs over the years and the Tim Duncan “Do you want to fight me?” incident would have got anybody else fired in a job situation.

Games 4 and 5 had way too many BS whistles. Let them play in game 6 six and ship Crawford to another series.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6j8JCajoMA

This should bar Crawford from anymore playoff officiating. I was so disgusted with this I turned off the game and I’m just not going to bother watching any games Crawford has his hands in. I thought calling a T on Duncan while he was on the bench was bad, but he has outdone himself this time. That’s just blowing a whistle for the sake of blowing a whistle.

I think Joey anticipated a foul by Roy on Hill and then realizing Roy is our superstar in foul trouble switched it to the next closest Blazer which was Camby.

(which then he realized was also in foul trouble and important in the game)

So he then just said a blazer fouled Nash beacuse Nash usally gets bumped all the time although this time no one was near him. He was probably going to later “correct” the call by taking it from Camby and giving it to was ever closests to Nash.

Then his brain overheated by the complexity of such a thing so he just made a couple of make up calls.

 Eeewww. Now I have to go take a shower.

And that would be a pretty ridiculous call for a bump

I’d combine this video with star wars where darth vader used his jedi powers to proxy-choke the lack of faith guy.

As I watched this last night, this was what I thought must have happened.

1. Crawford whistles Roy for impeding.

2. Nate questions the call, Crawford realizes he whistled the Blazer’s star player for his fourth foul. He quickly changes the foul to Camby, the next closest player to the play, thus protecting Roy.

3. This is where it gets weird. As some sort of cosmic payback for protecting Roy, Crawford quickly decides to send Nash, the Suns best free throw shooter, to the line.

4. Because refs are never supposed to appear to have missed a call or make a mistake, which might cost them their authority, he confidently sends Nash to the line. Much to the wonderment of Steve Nash and everyone else in the universe.

Now, we see this all the time in the NBA. How many times in this series have we seen a Blazer guard get leveled by Amare, only to have the foul called on the trailing defender (if the whistle blows at all)?

I know it’s not a popular view, but I want EVERY ref to call EVERY foul they see, and call it on THE PERSON WHO COMMITTED THE FOUL. It would be ugly for about a half season, but the players would adapt. And we’d have a much more fluid game.

Lots of diggs so far on the video, getting a lot of attention all over the internet. I added a link to the digg URL above in the main post. If you have time you should digg it so it gets even more attention.

I’ll post a link with majority of the topics around the internet, kind of interesting to read all of them.

Video is about to be on youtubes front video page

http://www.youtube.com/videos

It’s on page two at the top. Well atleast people are viewing it… a lot of people.

Here.

I didn’t see that durring the game, he actually called for nash to shoot the free throws! wow, i figured nash was just smart and walked up to the line and the refs didn’t catch it. But no, joey is just dirt bag who’s got a sumer home in phoenix.

Guys from failblog just contacted me for the rights… man oh man this wont go away, what have i done!