Tonight's Refs

[magnifier661]

Mentally strong teams persevere. We did in game 1. While the last two days Houston has been focusing on the calls and placing the blame of their loss on the officiating. We have been focused on us and what we need to do to dismantle an already fragile Houston team.

Hear Hear!

 

[magnifier661]

For their careers, in games they have reffed, the home team has a winning % of .604 for Phillips(.005 above average), Capers at .621 (.051 above average), and Zarba .547 (.105 BELOW average). xObviously, the averages are different for each ref, since they have reffed a different amount of seasons.
In the playoffs, Zarba is .12 above average, Caper .01 above, and Phillips -.001.

For FTA, home versus road, in the playoffs, home teams are a +1.7 for Phillis, which is 1.3 below average, for his career.
Capers, +4.4, which is 2.1 above average
Zarba, +1.0, which is 2.0 BELOW average.

Personal fouls called, home minus visitor, and above/below average:
Zarba:-.9(visitors .9 more fouls per game called). .9 above average.
Capers -2.6, 1.0 BELOW average
Phillips -.9, .9 above average.

That's actually not bad. It's obvious that you will get home cooking, but the differential is not to a point where you would feel completely jobbed.

 

[rasheedfan2005]

I always hate refs. Its part of the game to get pissed at every bad call, and there are a lot of them. The key is our players unlike many years past dont let refs get in their heads. Thats how we are going to sweep these bitches, this series is all mental and we have the perfect cast of mentally tough swag to win.

 

[magnifier661]

"Must Spread Rep Around"

will someone pick up RR7 for me please? I will give you rep as a result.

Great stuff RR7!

I repped him too

 

[magnifier661]

I always hate refs. Its part of the game to get pissed at every bad call, and there are a lot of them. The key is our players unlike many years past dont let refs get in their heads. Thats how we are going to sweep these bitches, this series is all mental and we have the perfect cast of mentally tough swag to win.

Exactly this.... I love how our players rarely let the refs get in our heads. It's such an impressive thing to watch from such a young group.

 

[RR7]

I repped him too

You get a rep, you get a rep, you get a rep. Everyone gets a rep!!

 

[magnifier661]

You get a rep, you get a rep, you get a rep. Everyone gets a rep!!

Hahahahaha!

 

[BlazerCaravan]

You get a rep, you get a rep, you get a rep. Everyone gets a rep!!

I like the bees gif better.

 

[BlazerCaravan]

 

[santeesioux]

 

[Wheels]

I already repped him.

gracias, but he needs a 2nd one from me via proxy. I repped you anyway though

 

[maxiep]

You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to RR7 again.

Damn it!

 

[RR7]

You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to RR7 again.

Damn it!

Amazing how I never get repped, yet this keeps coming up. LIES!

 

[maxiep]

Amazing how I never get repped, yet this keeps coming up. LIES!

You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to RR7 again.

 

[BLAZINGGIANTS]

Amazing how I never get repped, yet this keeps coming up. LIES!

Nobody likes a whore, RR!

(Who am I kidding - everyone likes a whore!)

 

[RR7]

Nobody likes a whore, RR!

(Who am I kidding - everyone likes a whore!)

What's worse is being called the town slut while being a virgin.

 

[BLAZINGGIANTS]

What's worse is being called the town slut while being a virgin.

Sounds like you've had experience.

 

[RR7]

Sounds like you've had experience.

Not as much experience as I'd like

 

[BLAZINGGIANTS]

Not as much experience as I'd like

And that's why everyone likes a whore.

 

[RR7]

Nobody likes a whore, RR!

 

[BLAZINGGIANTS]

^ I knew someone would take it there. The only thing I didn't see coming was that it'd take 20 minutes.

 

[PapaG]

Define inexperienced.

James Capers is in his 19th season, Zarba his 11th, and Phillips his 16th, I believe. Seems like a good amount of experience there. Over 2700 games reffed between the 3 of them.

I don't recall this crew in any big game, but you're correct, they aren't inexperienced in the traditional manner. I guess I'm just not familiar with them, which is on me.

 

[PapaG]

They don't but I don't think it's intentional conspiracy. I think ref get caught up in the fan enthusiasm.

There is literal proof of at least one ref impacting the final scores of NBA games. To dismiss any thoughts of referee bias out of hand seems a bit naive to me.

 

[BLAZER PROPHET]

James Capers
Jason Phillips
Zachary Zarba

All inexperienced. Not sure if that's good or bad. I'm leaning toward bad.

Houston will pick up a minimum of 6 fouls and 10 points on flops that would usually not be called.

 

[Natebishop3]

 

[blazedanugz]

the fact i havent heard of any of them makes me feel like they must be good refs with no egos. fantastic go blazers