Mike Barrett's take on the officiating

[Wheels]

Blazer fans:

youre not even a Rocket fan.. get a life.

 

[Toko]

refs hate the blazers

Tough luck

 

[The Professional Fan]

Tough luck

Just make sure you're still active on the board after the Blazers win the series in 7, ok? Don't be a coward.

 

[blue32]

^^ thats the spirit!

 

[maxiep]

Just make sure you're still active on the board after the Blazers win the series in 7, ok? Don't be a coward.

He'll go back to being a L*ker fan. If we beat the Fake Show, then he'll be a Denver fan. If we beat Denver, he'll be a Cleveland fan.

The Blazers own him. He fights against the ownage by pretending to be the fan of whichever team presents us with our greatest current challenge.

 

[soona]

To me, the story of the series so far has nothing to do with the officiating. It's that the Rockets role players have stepped up with the Blazers focusing all the defensive attention on Yao (which includes being extra-physical with him, admitted explicitly by Pryzbilla before game 4), while many key role players for the Blazers have not.

Maybe the officiating has been unfair, but durvasa is right on the money here. Our bench has been so great for us all year and they just haven't stepped up the way Houston's bench has. With consistent games from Outlaw and Rudy and center 2, we'd be tied or ahead in the series.

 

[durvasa]

It brings up a more thorny issue though: why is our star being manhandled without the guys manhandling him being called for fouls? Maybe he's only considered a star in the regular season, and not in the playoffs yet. Maybe the refs are calling the reputations: Houston has one; Portland doesn't.

If the Rockets were devoting as much attention in denying Brandon Roy the basketball on nearly every possession, then they'd get called for more fouls as well. There's just no comparison between the amount of contact being allowed on your star on the perimeter, and the contact regularly applied against Yao in denying him post position.

If you want to make comparisons, compare the contact allowed against Yao to the contact allowed against Aldridge or Oden in the paint. But Aldridge and Oden in the low post isn't a regular part of the Portland offense the way Yao's post ups are for the Rockets, so there's less whistles for it.

 

[BlazerCaravan]

Aldridge in the low post was a big part of our offense in the first quarter of game. Remember in Game 1 when we pounded it into him like 12 straight times?

It obviously isn't as much now, because Scola doesn't foul out after 10 minutes like Oden does.

 

[LittleAlex]

And yet anyone who doesn't have his head stuck in a gutter realizes that Brandon Roy and LaMarcus Aldridge are stars in this league -- much more so than the players the Rockets have matched up against them. So there goes the "we don't get respect because they have more stars than us" tripe.

The Rockets have more role players that have been making plays at or around the basket (Scola, Landry, Lowry, Wafer). The Blazers role players have been shooting jumpers (Outlaw, Fernandez, Blake) or have been mostly non-participants on offense (Pryzbilla, Oden).

The shot charts for each of the four games does not support your statement. Both teams have had players from the bench make plays near the basket, but for both teams these are way in the minority.

As an example, nearly all of the Landry's and Scola's points have come from around 17 feet out at the top of the key. As I said in another post, I will probably spend some time in the next couple of days to determine the exact numbers for each player. Not really to prove any point, but because I am very curious what the results would be.

 

[durvasa]

The shot charts for each of the four games does not support your statement. Both teams have had players from the bench make plays near the basket, but for both teams these are way in the minority.

As an example, nearly all of the Landry's and Scola's points have come from around 17 feet out at the top of the key. As I said in another post, I will probably spend some time in the next couple of days to determine the exact numbers for each player. Not really to prove any point, but because I am very curious what the results would be.

I'm curious to.

Another thing that would be interesting to know, but I doubt its recorded anywhere, is the type of fouls the Blazers are being called for. Do they tend to be shooting fouls, and if so on what type of shots? Which team has been called for more off the ball fouls, and where were they committed and against whom? That type of information would be nice to know.

 

[Natebishop3]

If the Rockets were devoting as much attention in denying Brandon Roy the basketball on nearly every possession, then they'd get called for more fouls as well. There's just no comparison between the amount of contact being allowed on your star on the perimeter, and the contact regularly applied against Yao in denying him post position.

If you want to make comparisons, compare the contact allowed against Yao to the contact allowed against Aldridge or Oden in the paint. But Aldridge and Oden in the low post isn't a regular part of the Portland offense the way Yao's post ups are for the Rockets, so there's less whistles for it.

I don't know.... I think the Rockets have spent almost as much time trying to shut down Roy as the Blazers have spent trying to stop Yao. The difference is that Roy can bring the ball up the floor, while Yao relies on others to get him the ball in scoring position.

 

[LittleAlex]

And yet anyone who doesn't have his head stuck in a gutter realizes that Brandon Roy and LaMarcus Aldridge are stars in this league -- much more so than the players the Rockets have matched up against them. So there goes the "we don't get respect because they have more stars than us" tripe.

The Rockets have more role players that have been making plays at or around the basket (Scola, Landry, Lowry, Wafer). The Blazers role players have been shooting jumpers (Outlaw, Fernandez, Blake) or have been mostly non-participants on offense (Pryzbilla, Oden).

This is not true. Yao is in at least one National commercial that plays damn near every game. There isn't one Blazer player in a national commercial outside of Oden. Unfortunately, Oden can't stay in the game long enough to make any difference at all.

Roy got voted onto the all star team by coaches, Yao got voted in by the fans. I would bet that the majority of those fans had no idea who Roy was until this series.

As far as national attention, the Rockets are the only team with a Super Star on their roster.

 

[durvasa]

This is not true. Yao is in at least one National commercial that plays damn near every game. There isn't one Blazer player in a national commercial outside of Oden. Unfortunately, Oden can't stay in the game long enough to make any difference at all.

Roy got voted onto the all star team by coaches, Yao got voted in by the fans. I would bet that the majority of those fans had no idea who Roy was until this series.

As far as national attention, the Rockets are the only team with a Super Star on their roster.

But its not the fans who are making the calls on the floor. Its the officials, and they understand what a star Brandon Roy is. They understand how good Aldridge is, and how he's also a budding star.

What's this national commercial you're talking about? One of those NBA "Where will Amazing happen?" commercials? THe reason Brandon Roy doesn't have one is because this is his first playoff appearance. All those commercials are showing clips from past playoffs.