Disaster - Scott Foster for Game 2

[dviss1]

I have zero doubts that Kanter picks up 2 quick fouls tonight

Why the fuck would you speak that into existence?

I rebuke your negativity!

Kanter will stay foul free for the first 9 minutes of the game!

 

[dviss1]

I'm positive that Scott Foster sucks.

That was perfect!

 

[Pinwheel1]

I have zero doubts that Kanter picks up 2 quick fouls tonight

This has been my biggest worry regardless who the officials were. OKC will feed Adams over and over until he does. Or least I would.

Kanter has to block out all the criticism he gets for his lack of D, and play smart even if it means looking bad on certain plays. We need him to play D but we need his rebounding even more. No reach in fouls, No offensive fouls, and No frustration fouls.

 

[kjironman1]

You can't control the refs, but they can easily make you lose a game by 5 that you would have otherwise won by 5 with fair officiating. It's like running a race where one guy is on a reverse treadmill. You can tell him to just run faster but that's not the point.

So win by 10

 

[BBert]

Foster isn't my favorite NBA refer but let's make this clear :

Scott Foster is not a bad official.

He just doesn't put up with whiny bullshit. And who are the biggest whiny FLOPPING MFs on the league?

Harden and Paul.

Fuck them, we will be fine tonight.

I'm MUCH more concerned about Leon Wood...



I've met you and know for a fact you're a better human than this.

Your right. I don't wish harm on people. It was a frustration post.

I don't need no bad Karma coming my way anyway.

How about his Uber driver gets really "lost" and he can't get to the game on time.

If only we knew a die-hard red and black bleeding Uber driver. With a Blazers tattoo.

 

[H.C.]

Thunder thought they got screwed by the refs in g1.
All the offensive foul calls their sr believes it was the worse officiated game ever.
OKC believes they've been pooped on by the refs all year long.

Personally as long as it's not kenny mauer I don't care who the refs are.

 

[TorturedBlazerFan]

I'm going to be a proton tonight.

 

[BBert]

You can't control the refs, but they can easily make you lose a game by 5 that you would have otherwise won by 5 with fair officiating. It's like running a race where one guy is on a reverse treadmill. You can tell him to just run faster but that's not the point.

Refs can absolutely create, and I've seen them create, momentum swings as simply as three or four baffling calls/non calls in a very short time period. Then they go back to the appearance of being non-biased.

Not all refs are as honorable as dviss.

 

[Orion Bailey]

Your right. I don't wish harm on people. It was a frustration post.

I don't need no bad Karma coming my way anyway.

How about his Uber driver gets really lost and he can't get to the game on time.

If only we knew a die-hard red and black bleeding Uber driver. With a Blazers tattoo.

King, pick him up and drive to the hood. MT hood that is!!!!!

 

[BBert]

King, pick him up and drive to the hood. MT hood that is!!!!!

Be like: I thought you wanted to go to Timberline Lodge. I must have got you mixed up with my next fare. My bad.

 

[kjironman1]

Be like: I thought you wanted to go to Timberline Lodge. I must have got you mixed up with my next fare. My bad.

Wouldn’t work. Scott has been here plenty of times to fuck games up. He knows exactly where he is going.

 

[dviss1]

Refs can absolutely create, and I've seen them create, momentum swings as simply as three or four baffling calls/non calls in a very short time period. Then they go back to the appearance of being non-biased.

Not all refs are as honorable as dviss.

Thanks bro. I make it a point to work hard and be impartial.

Y'all have to understand something about non calls.

Sometimes the referee doesn't have the correct positioning to make the call.

The #1 rule of officiating:

Never guess.

So bad positioning, watching the ball, and the cardinal rule creates bad no calls.

 

[PtldPlatypus]

The #1 rule of officiating:

Never guess.

If only these consistently-flop-buying officials actually followed that cardinal rule.

 

[BBert]

Y'all have too understand something about non calls.

Sometimes the referee doesn't have the correct positioning to make the call.

The #1 rule of officiating:

Never guess.

So bad positioning, watching the ball, and the cardinal rule creates no calls.

I definitely agree. One of the most frustrating things is when I see a ref make a call that he couldn't possibly have seen, one way or the other.

I sometimes see a ref shrug and say to a player "I didn't see it". That's a good answer.

 

[Haakzilla]

It's so bad, I'm seriously thinking about putting $$$ on the Thunder to win. If I lose, the Blazers win and I'm thrilled. If I win, the proceeds go towards a Scott Foster bobble-head doll that I will destroy with extreme vengeance.

...this would certainly explain the way the line has been moving since the Blazers won by 5 pts in game 1 Vegas never loses!

 

[BlazerWookee]

Wow

I know, right? Bicep, yeah, maybe even a tricep. But a quadricep? Too far, man, too far.

 

[dviss1]

If only these consistently-flop-buying officials actually followed that cardinal rule.

That's not the reason why flops are called fouls.

It's 1000% positioning.

This is an open look:

It's easy to see if:

a. Steph has a legal guarding position (feet facing the offense and squarely in front)
b. Lillard goes to AND through Steph to cause a charge.
c. Steph flops.

This is a closed look:

Look at the players on the left. If the #5 Posts up the guy on the block, you couldn't tell if he #5 flops or if he's really pushed from behind.

 

[dviss1]

I definitely agree. One of the most frustrating things is when I see a ref make a call that he couldn't possibly have seen, one way or the other.

I sometimes see a ref shrug and say to a player "I didn't see it". That's a good answer.

Sometimes the Trail official (farthest from the play) has the best look.

 

[TBpup]

Some refs are quite predictable, have their favorites, or carry an all out grudge. Blazers fans knew for years if they got Jake O'Donell, the road to victory got harder. He had a bur in his backside against Drexler and maybe Buck IIRC. His final game as a ref I believe he ejected Drexler in the Playoffs when he was in Houston.

No one was making up his dislike of either the Blazers or some of their best players. And it definitely affected them.

 

[Eastoff]

Scott Foster is a dickbag for certain, BUT he hates complaining more than most and I know of a certain team who complains almost as much as the Warriors...

But we're not playing the rockets!

 

[riverman]

THIS IS WHAT I CALL A JINX THREAD!!! Lock it mods!

 

[kjironman1]

Y'all have too understand something about non calls.

Sometimes the referee doesn't have the correct positioning to make the call.

The #1 rule of officiating:

Never guess.

So bad positioning, watching the ball, and the cardinal rule creates no calls.

Yep. If the ref doesn't see it he should not call it. These guys are pros. They see quite a bit.
What i don't want is a ref making things up or trying to second guess if he didn't see a call. Just keep playing and make the right call on the next one.
Absolutely no make up calls.

 

[kjironman1]

...this would certainly explain the way the line has been moving since the Blazers won by 5 pts in game 1 Vegas never loses!

They got to make up for Tiger would be my guess.

 

[Eastoff]

This is the shit that kinda pisses me off... Especially with y'all that like to claim jinxes exist...

It's like y'all don't know about or don't believe in the Law of Attraction.

Like energy attracts like energy and all I see is negative energy about tonight's officials...

THAT NEGATIVITY CREATES THE JINX!!

Not feeling or speaking positivity...

This whole thread should be locked for that very reason.

I'm taking the thread over now! Fuck this negative bullshit!

The referee are gonna do AWESOME TONIGHT! They're going to make great calls and will be in the correct position to make them!

Think positive!

I think we've talked about this before. Opposites attract. A North Pole likes a South Pole. A proton likes an electron.

 

[Wade Garrett]

Yep. If the ref doesn't see it he should not call it. These guys are pros. They see quite a bit.
What i don't want is a ref making things up or trying to second guess if he didn't see a call. Just keep playing and make the right call on the next one.
Absolutely no make up calls.

A trend I'm seeing is a player drives to the hoop, there is contact, but the refs wait to see if shot goes in or not to blow his whistle.
What up with dat?

 

[kjironman1]

A trend I'm seeing is a player drives to the hoop, there is contact, but the refs wait to see if shot goes in or not to blow his whistle.
What up with dat?

That is a human thing i would bet. They signal a bit different when it is an and 1. So they are looking if they drop that finger. If the whistle blew then i don't mind. But if he waits to blow the whistle that is a late call.

 

[Orion Bailey]

Fuck Scott.

We Got This!!!!!

 

[Wade Garrett]

Fuck Scott.

We Got This!!!!!

They opened their show with this one!

 

[BBert]

Sometimes the Trail official (farthest from the play) has the best look.

All about those angels. I mean angles.

 

[BBert]

A trend I'm seeing is a player drives to the hoop, there is contact, but the refs wait to see if shot goes in or not to blow his whistle.
What up with dat?

My speculative theory is that they don't want to interrupt the flow of the game "unnecessarily". I mean, in the NBA the ref could blow the whistle on every possession if he or she chose to enforce the rules strictly at all times. Any NBA ref who did so would quickly be looking for a new job. NBA refs are exercising a tremendous amount of discretion at all times. If the ref has a string of plays where one team's fans think they repeatedly used that discretionary responsibility poorly, that is when I think those fans get upset. The NBA is entertainment so games are officiated differently than College or High School. It has to be. Echoing again what Dviss said: The worst mistake (IMO) NBA refs make is when they call stuff they didn't see, usually because they weren't in the proper position, or they miss something because they were ball watching. But the not calling every foul at the basket if the ball goes in, yeah that seems like standard operating procedure, depending somewhat on a player's "star" status.