GAME THREAD: BLAZERS @ ROCKETS - MARCH 9TH, 2014 - SUNDAY, 4:00 PM (PST), KGW

[PapaG]

my point was that if LaMarcus hadn't missed 3 of them, it wouldn't have mattered.

If LMA made every shot he took tonight, it wouldn't have mattered. What an idiotic post.

 

[maxiep]

You were RIGHT. 18-16 in last 34 games. Choke job after choke job. Sliding down standings. It's not my fault. It's not your fault. But you were right.

We'll agree to disagree.

As someone once wrote, "Believe harder."

 

[KingSpeed]

my point was that if LaMarcus hadn't missed 3 of them, it wouldn't have mattered.

Sure. Not sure what 2-0 meant though.

 

[julius]

Sure. Not sure what 2-0 meant though.

it was sarcasm.

 

[DamianLillard#0]

i cant believe that anyone know we can reach the 3 Seed after this terrible games ? .. are you be kidding me.. ? cmon guys think realistic.. we have a schedule disadvantage thats right but the teams playing 42 minute amazing basketball every fuckin game and then the last minutes in every fuckin game they play the whole shit as well.. i have white hairs at the couple of last weeks.. the blazers are the reason..

 

[TripTango]

This just in: with Miami losing to Chicago, Indiana losing to Dallas, and OKC losing to the Lakers, it has been decided that NOBODY is making the playoffs this year. Not a single team is worthy. If any teams do miraculously make it, in spite of the epic failures occurring across the league tonight, they will all likely be swept in the first round.

Season over.

 

[Strenuus]

This just in: with Miami losing to Chicago, Indiana losing to Dallas, and OKC losing to the Lakers, it has been decided that NOBODY is making the playoffs this year. Not a single team is worthy. If any teams do miraculously make it, in spite of the epic failures occurring across the league tonight, they will all likely be swept in the first round.

Season over.

Maybe the forum should be called SO2?

 

[BBert]

We have to be the league leader in stupid fucking passes... good lord.

True dat.

 

[rasheedfan2005]

Player only meeting. Flog mo

 

[BBert]

I bet there's a 3 pointer or a 3 point play coming up for Houston. Probably Damians 6th too.

how convenient.

How very prescient of you.

 

[BBert]

wow...they didn't call a foul on Matthews there?

On the steal? It wasn't a foul. But yeah, amazing they didn't call one. That normally doesn't stop them.

 

[BBert]

ive seen at least 10 moving picks by Howard

This. Plus he fouled his teammates twice in the process, but we got tagged.

 

[BBert]

"Rockets really haven't gotten one call tonight..."

LMAO

Did their announcers really say that? They should have their tongues burned out with acid.

 

[BBert]

This is what playoff basketball will look like. Lots of fouls, lots of flopping. We have to find a way to overcome this stuff.

True dat. We can only control our own play.

 

[BBert]

The Rockets took this game from us. We didn't give it away. Hate the refs, hate the way they play, it doesn't matter.

The Rockets right now are the better team.

The Rockets are definitely more playoff seasoned, and ready, than us.

 

[BBert]

Batum and Lillard combined for 14 turnovers.

Guh!

 

[BBert]

I don't know if there's a player on this Houston team that I _don't_ hate. Lin maybe (who was their best player tonight).

Wish we had him off our bench.

 

[Fez Hammersticks]

LMA has shot 39% in the last five games.

You have to go back to Feb. 12 to find a game that he shot 50%

 

[Strenuus]

LMA has shot 39% in the last five games.

You have to go back to Feb. 12 to find a game that he shot 50%

Granted, he was out 5 games, since that was the game before the ASG... so really, that's 3-4 games. lol.

 

[MickZagger]

The NBA game today is predicated on deceiving the refs and and getting the advantage with mind fucking the refs. We aren't very good at it and that was the difference in today's game.

Watch the Clippers, Rockets, Thunder and even the Spurs. Constant bitching to the refs on every play and tricking the refs into thinking every time you flail whether you're actually fouled or not that its a call.

It was fucking gross watching Harden flail around on every little bit or contact or even when there was no contact.

 

[Fez Hammersticks]

Harden has taken the torch from Wade and Ginobli for most blatant flopper.

 

[Fez Hammersticks]

Granted, he was out 5 games, since that was the game before the ASG... so really, that's 3-4 games. lol.

Doesn't change the fact that he's shooting 46% with a career worst TS% at 51% this season.

 

[Strenuus]

Doesn't change the fact that he's shooting 46% with a career worst TS% at 51% this season.

Yeah, but on that stat you used, it's not necessarily the largest sample size. This one is.

 

[ehizzy3]

I still can't believe stotts called an alley oop throw in, with a tie game and 8 seconds left....

 

[RoyToy]

The NBA game today is predicated on deceiving the refs and and getting the advantage with mind fucking the refs. We aren't very good at it and that was the difference in today's game.

Watch the Clippers, Rockets, Thunder and even the Spurs. Constant bitching to the refs on every play and tricking the refs into thinking every time you flail whether you're actually fouled or not that its a call.

It was fucking gross watching Harden flail around on every little bit or contact or even when there was no contact.

It was fucking gross seeing the Blazers not execute on offense and not score a FG the final 7:30 of the 4th Q

Refs were brutal both ways, but the Blazers dropped the ball tonight. Another late lead choked away.

 

[MickZagger]

I still can't believe stotts called an alley oop throw in, with a tie game and 8 seconds left....

I was a bit dumbfounded by that as well. So we score immediately and then allow Harden to hit a circus shot to win it?

 

[MickZagger]

It was fucking gross seeing the Blazers not execute on offense and not score a FG the final 7:30 of the 4th Q

Refs were brutal both ways, but the Blazers dropped the ball tonight. Another late lead choked away.

Shitty reffing kicks the wind out of your sails. I rarely bitch about reffing but it was a joke. Our best player fouled out and 2 of those fouls were blatant bogus calls.

 

[Sinobas]

LMA has shot 39% in the last five games.

You have to go back to Feb. 12 to find a game that he shot 50%

LA has not been good over the last few months. He drags the team down the way he forces up those bad shots.

 

[Boise Blazer]

I had a feeling that was long at the time ...

http://www.csnnw.com/blazers/did-rockets-get-6-second-gift-end-regulation

It's hard enough to defend an inbounds play for five-seconds, but over six seconds with the game on the line?

That's the question posed: Did the Houston Rockets receive a six-plus second gift in the win over the Blazers?

CSN received a tweet from Daniel Brady asking us to review the tape:

Daniel Brady ‏@DBrady25: @csnnw Show the Harden game tying 3 side out play at the end of regulation. Lin held the ball for over 6 seconds. #BlazersTalk
For perspective: The play Brady is referencing occurs with 11.3 seconds to go in regulation. Wesley Matthews had just missed a critical free throw that would have pushed the lead to four points. Instead, the Rockets grabbed the rebound on the missed free throw, called timeout, and got the inbounds play on the other side of the court. Lin gets the ball inbounds to Harden who hits a miraculous corner three to tie it. The Blazers lost in OT.
If Brady's assumption was correct and if Lin did hold the ball for six seconds on the inbound play, it would have led to a Rockets turnover, according to Rule no. 8, Section III of the NBA rulebook:
Section III-The Throw-In
a. The throw-in starts when the ball is at the disposal of a player entitled to the throw-in. He shall release the ball inbounds within 5 seconds from the time the throw-in starts.

See the video above. What do you think? Were the Rockets handed a six second gift?

React and share...

 

[BlazerCaravan]

I had a feeling that was long at the time ...

http://www.csnnw.com/blazers/did-rockets-get-6-second-gift-end-regulation

More proof that the NBA is just the WWE... the refs doing a "count" instead of actually using fucking "time". With no timeouts left, Houston probably could have held it for 10 seconds and got away with it. The ref would have just started with "4 and a half... 4 and three quarters..."