That was some of the worst officiating I have ever seen

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Natebishop3 said:
The conspiracy theorist in me is so confused.... the NBA wants to see a Clipper team without Paul or Griffin in the second round? Why?
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They don't want the Clips to win, but they do want to give Steph more time to rest... duh?

LA marketing being dead, the last thing they want is Podunk PDX to take out the golden boy's team so early on. They want Spurs v Ws for all eyes on the boob tube.

STOMP
 
STOMP said:
They don't want the Clips to win, but they do want to give Steph more time to rest... duh?

LA marketing being dead, the last thing they want is Podunk PDX to take out the golden boy's team so early on. They want Spurs v Ws for all eyes on the boob tube.

STOMP
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You would think the NBA would want to squash these kinds of thoughts, but nope.... they don't care if people think they're rigged. They just keep counting dollars.
 
kjironman1 said:
I used to think that but Portland actually has a bigger TV market than an awful lot of NBA teams. Including the Spurs.
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The Spurs during their run have had a large number of international players and are a popular team for the league overseas. The anti-conspiracy notion is to point to the Spurs as an example of a small market team that has succeeded, but they were always darlings to foreign fans and were good for the international popularity of the league.

I am convinced we are at a disadvantage to ever win a championship because of this bullshit league bias. It's not as big of a concern since fuck head Stern retired, but it's still something we will have to overcome IMO.
 
fumanchu said:
The Spurs during their run have had a large number of international players and are a popular team for the league overseas. The anti-conspiracy notion is to point to the Spurs as an example of a small market team that has succeeded, but they were always darlings to foreign fans and were good for the international popularity of the league.

I am convinced we are at a disadvantage to ever win a championship because of this bullshit league bias. It's not as big of a concern since fuck head Stern retired, but it's still something we will have to overcome IMO.
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Wait. Isn't San Antonio the 7th largest city in the U.S.?
 
Honestly I'm more inclined to watch a Cinderella vs. a Heavy Weight than 2 Heavyweights.

I'd have to think if the games are close that a Spurs vs. Blazers series would nearly be just as watched as Spurs vs. Warriors...
 
Sinobas said:
The Spurs would have a big following in Texas though. We're just Oregon.
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Yes they do. And Texas is big.
Portland would have to rely on SW Washington and Idaho with all of the state of Oregon to even touch that. Maybe even some of Alaska and Northern California.
 
fumanchu said:
The Spurs during their run have had a large number of international players and are a popular team for the league overseas. The anti-conspiracy notion is to point to the Spurs as an example of a small market team that has succeeded, but they were always darlings to foreign fans and were good for the international popularity of the league.

I am convinced we are at a disadvantage to ever win a championship because of this bullshit league bias. It's not as big of a concern since fuck head Stern retired, but it's still something we will have to overcome IMO.
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But then again we have had very popular international players also. France was watching Portland play every playoff game. Rudy was very popular also. What's is actually the deal with Aminu? He was born in Atlanta but he also plays for Nigeria? He went to school here but is considered an international player?
 
Yeah some bad calls tonight for sure. But were the Trail Blazers, we should be used to it by now.
 
kjironman1 said:
Yes they do. And Texas is big.
Portland would have to rely on SW Washington and Idaho with all of the state of Oregon to even touch that. Maybe even some of Alaska and Northern California.
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Texas's population is roughly 8 times that of Oregon's.

the combined populations of Oregon, Washington & Idaho isn't half of Texas's 27 Mil

STOMP
 
Oh, bull. We hear this every damn game and I'm sick of it. The game was close because the Blazers bricked free throws. In a fast paced game with dozens of calls some of them will miss. I saw nothing way out of line. Of course there were misses but it was not close to, for example, when the Blazers played the Lakers and the Lakers had 15 free throws before the Blazers had their first. Portland lost that game by 2 points. That was a ref decided game. This wasn't.

The team playing better usually gets calls. Blazers did not play well early. They did later. Compare calls.
Just fucking play and cram the excuses. Blazers won.

And you've GOT to make your free throws.
 
There was some bad calls last night but there not one official can take back made free throw and made fg. We was bricking everything in the first half I can't blame the official on that but they did miss 3 obvious calls last night but beside that I did accept the refereeing.
 
I think the worst part is that officiating crew was as experienced as you're going to get - all three of them are lead officials and they still were doing it.
 
The Davis Tech was BS too. They said he came down with his hands. Yeah... so he wouldnt fall on his head!!!!! Game 4...
 
STOMP said:
Texas's population is roughly 8 times that of Oregon's.

the combined populations of Oregon, Washington & Idaho isn't half of Texas's 27 Mil

STOMP
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Yes but they also have 3 teams. Also Dallas is by far the biggest area.
 
crandc said:
Oh, bull. We hear this every damn game and I'm sick of it. The game was close because the Blazers bricked free throws. In a fast paced game with dozens of calls some of them will miss. I saw nothing way out of line. Of course there were misses but it was not close to, for example, when the Blazers played the Lakers and the Lakers had 15 free throws before the Blazers had their first. Portland lost that game by 2 points. That was a ref decided game. This wasn't.

The team playing better usually gets calls. Blazers did not play well early. They did later. Compare calls.
Just fucking play and cram the excuses. Blazers won.

And you've GOT to make your free throws.
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I don't know about Nate, but I'm actually talking about the 4th quarter.
  • Crawford leveled CJ with 6 minutes left in the 4th--no call
  • Jordan landed on CJ while challenging a jumpshot at 4 minutes left in the 4th--no call
  • Immediately after that, Redick ran into Rivers, untouched by Blazers, and got a foul call
  • Right after that, Dame was mauled by Rivers on free-throw jumpshot--no call.
Obviously we overcame it all to win, and that's great, but that 3-minute span of officiating was egregious. How could you NOT see that? That could very easily have turned the game if we were Clippers-level-mentally-fragile. Fortunately we're not.
 
PtldPlatypus said:
I don't know about Nate, but I'm actually talking about the 4th quarter.
  • Crawford leveled CJ with 6 minutes left in the 4th--no call
  • Jordan landed on CJ while challenging a jumpshot at 4 minutes left in the 4th--no call
  • Immediately after that, Redick ran into Rivers, untouched by Blazers, and got a foul call
  • Right after that, Dame was mauled by Rivers on free-throw jumpshot--no call.
Obviously we overcame it all to win, and that's great, but that 3-minute span of officiating was egregious. How could you NOT see that? That could very easily have turned the game if we were Clippers-level-mentally-fragile. Fortunately we're not.
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This.

The refs weren't really any different in the first half. They missed some calls on both ends. That 4th quarter was complete bs. That was some late 90s reffing right there.
 
kjironman1 said:
I used to think that but Portland actually has a bigger TV market than an awful lot of NBA teams. Including the Spurs.
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Just FYI,
Exactly 1 team in the last 25 years w/o Duncan or James has won a title being in the bottom half of the TV market size (Heat).
 
I just hope we do not get Ronnie Garretson again this year. Crawford was not much better last night either.

Glad someone else brought up the fact Golden State gets away with murder on moving screens.
 
This was not a game about "blown calls". The refs made the calls they wanted to make, or didn't make the calls, as the situation dictated. What was clear throughout the game was that at no time were the refs going to allow the Blazers to extend a lead into double digits. Every single time we'd get up seven points, the refs would do that thing they do to even up the game. We'd get the lead, the refs would take over. Get the lead, refs take over. When we finally did extend into a double digit lead, the refs had to double up on their "bad" calls and non-calls, and boy some of those were doozies. The game management by the refs was so transparent: and just when I've been posting the NBA officiating doesn't appear to be as crooked as it used to be. My bad.
 
oldmangrouch said:
PA needs to spread some cheese around. Bribe a few (hundred) sports writers to run with a "Cinderella Blazers" vs big-bully-Warriors storyline. Create a new narrative.
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Silly Paul Allen. If he really wanted to win a championship in Portland, he should have parlayed some of his fortune into becoming a media mogul.
 
theprunetang said:
Wait. Isn't San Antonio the 7th largest city in the U.S.?
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And isn't Texas the second largest state by population?

I'm sick of hearing that San Antonio is a "small market". Bullshit. San Antonio has fans all over Texas, and all over the country at this point. So Dallas is a bigger city? So fucking what. They aren't the Spurs.
 
BBert said:
And isn't Texas the second largest state by population?

I'm sick of hearing that San Antonio is a "small market". Bullshit. San Antonio has fans all over Texas, and all over the country at this point. So Dallas is a bigger city? So fucking what. They aren't the Spurs.
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All of this yes. Except, San Antonio is actually bigger than Dallas too. Mind blown.
 
BBert said:
And isn't Texas the second largest state by population?

I'm sick of hearing that San Antonio is a "small market". Bullshit. San Antonio has fans all over Texas, and all over the country at this point. So Dallas is a bigger city? So fucking what. They aren't the Spurs.
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Pretty sure Texas is 3rd behind California and New York. Still, your point stands.
 
kjironman1 said:
All United States 308,745,538
1 California 37,253,956
2 Texas 25,145,561
3 New York 19,378,102
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My mistake. Not only is NY not second, it's not even 3rd (they've been passed by Florida).
 
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