“I’m being a hypocrite?”
A little, yeah.

“You’re the one still assuming I’m mad beacuse its a Blazers lose even tho I’ve already stated that isn’t the reason.”
Of course I assume you’re mad about the loss. You’re a Blazer fan aren’t you? Don’t you get upset when they lose? That’s only part of it though. I imagine you and others are particularly upset about this loss because you feel it could have been different with better officiating. You might be right but a lot of games might be different with better officiating. Even games Portland has won. What’s infinitely more important, mind you, is that they would definitely be different if the team that lost had played better.

“My agenda in life isn’t to moan about referees every chance I get.”
Yes, I’m well aware that you moan only when a bad call from a referee affects your team in a negative way. That’s my point.

By the way, the question still stands. If the situation were reversed, and a Portland win was aided by poor officiating at the end of the game, would you be making posts about how pissed off you were about the league rules? If the answer is yes, then show me. Prove me wrong. Show me a previous post where you showed similar contempt for a poor call that was made which helped Portland win a game. I’m not above concession.

“No, this lose wasn’t a sum of Portland’s mistakes.”
For the most part it was. Sure, non-player contributions always affect games wheither it’s a bad call from a ref, someone slipping on sweat that didn’t get mopped up, playing your second of a back-to-back, or home crowds distracting visiting players. At the end of the day (or game, for that matter), the players almost always have a weighted advantage over these other aspects.

Now, if you live in a fantasy world of basketball where games last only last 34 seconds, and your team starts with a 2 point lead, then yes, I would say the poor officiating had a disproportionate impact on this game. Even so, let’s take that last 34 seconds. Portland is ahead by 2. Durant misses, Portland fails to secure the rebound. Westbrook misses, Portland fails to secure the rebound. Durant misses again, and yet Portland fails to secure the rebound. Aldridge makes a good block on Durant, but it’s incorrectly called goaltending. Portland fails to score in 6 seconds. End result: Tie game (i.e., not a loss).

So even in this brief snapshot of the game, you have four key plays that Portland failed to make based solely on poor execution compared to one poor call by the ref. In this short instance, the bad call weighs 20% toward the outcome of a tie, whereas good old fashioned crappy play on the Blazers’ part weighs in 80%. Even at this, it didn’t result in a loss. It resulted in a tie. Portland had a full 5 minutes to outplay OKC. A full 5 minutes where the team shot 1-9. A full 5 minutes where they readily failed.

Mind you, for the whole of regulation (yes, in the NBA, they play a full 48 minutes), the Blazers lost the battle of the paint, being outscored and severely outrebounde. Moreover, although close, OKC shot better from the field, better from behind the arc, and better from athe charity stripe. Also, little argument can be made that the refs were calling this game in favor of OKC. The Thunder ended up with 10 more fouls called against them than the Blazers. If someone were to ask me before the game which I would take, 10 less fouls called against my team or one gimme goaltend, I’d take the 10 less fouls.

“Without that terrible call, we win (more then likely).”
Don’t forget that we also likely win if Portland grabs even just one of those 3 OKC misses that occured before the bad call. Another way we likely win is if Portland makes a basket in the final 6 seconds. Yet, another likely way we win is if Portland shoots better than 1-9 in the overtime period. Hmmm…. who’s to blame for this loss again? Oh right… the ref. I keep forgetting that!

“It has some truth to it – if the Blazers played better, we probably wouldn’tve been in a situation where the refs can decide the game.”
Now you got it!

“That doesn’t change the fact that we had a win robbed from us by the refs.”
Oops, you lost it again.

“And stop with the childish insults”
No.

“If you had any desire to have a proper discussion you’d leave that crap out of it.”
You mean crap like, “…it’s so desperate to be ‘logical’ and ‘level-headed’,” or “lol. Stop trying to be a psychologist.”? Oh wait, my mistake. I forgot that mocking someone’s logic as an act of desparation or likening it to the exploits of a mental health provider are just all a part of a proper discussion. My bad.

When in Rome, and all. Don’t care for it? Then don’t dish it out. Ethical reciprocity, my friend. Ethical reciprocity.

Still, fans should strive to be objective. Otherwise, we’re just mindless homers.

So you’d know the win was tainted, and the Blazers would have BS coming to them? Not sure what all of that is supposed to mean. You’ll have to specify that a bit.

My point is you wouldn’t be on Blazersedge, crying about it. Complaining about how the league needs to change their rules because a team you follow, benefited from one of their flawed examples.

You would be reticent with the fact that they won with the help of a bad call, and you’d convince yourself that they made better plays over the course of the game to, perhaps, deserve the win. A stance I’m sure many Thunder fans are taking right now.

Like most situations, the truth always lies behind what’s immediately obvious. The Blazers got outplayed. OKC simply performed at a higher level, and earned the victory. Short of any evidence to support a conspiracy to commit malfeasance against Portland, or benevolence toward OKC, there is no other issue. Just one bad call amongst a game filled with failed opportunities by Portland and capitalizations by OKC.

You and others can feel however you want. However, if you choose to express your feelings and opinions, I can choose to demonstrate the illogic nature of them.