It really is! The Rockets in the Harden era have consistently *for years now* not been able to hold large 4th quarter leads due to repeated defensive lapses and bogged down offense. Of course it's a thing with me! But I'm done. The Rockets lost, it is what it is. I seriously doubt they let the protest go through, even though they obviously screwed up. Onto Toronto...
This took 10 seconds of googling, lol https://www.espn.com/blog/cleveland...-point-game-3-lead-as-lebron-james-disappears
Yeah I’m guessing Screamin’ A and Max dirt face would have a much different set of takes. The only thing I tend to agree with several posters here about is with a 13 point lead at the time this never should have come into play... that said the league has to make a hard statement about how this will be avoided in the future and they need to make a public statement groveling to the Rockets about Fing this up, should also suspend that ref crew for a substantial chunk of wallet affecting games
I would say it happens more with the Rockets. It's due to undisciplined defense and a very predictable offense where it can dominate for long stretches but gets bogged down during crunch time.
And that does not even count the ones they still manage to pull out despite blowing the lead and making a game of it. It's a problem. Always will be with MDA coached Rockets teams, I suppose.
I lost faith in the fairness of officiating years ago. I really doubt this type of BS would ever happen with a healthy Warriors team or the Lakers of now. I also believe that we will always get that one bad call in Clutch time that will give the other team just enough of an edge to pull off the win, especially in crucial games like the playoffs. We will probably now get even more blind eye calls, just because everyone calls us crybabies. The sad part is that we are justified in calling out the officials.
Maybe, maybe not. But the idea that comebacks don't happen against everyone, superstar or otherwise, is just plain wrong. This is the NBA. There are wild changes in scoring margin in most games.
They now refer to us as the "whiny math nerds of the NBA", per Get Up this morning. That's our reputation now i guess. Maybe i should just embrace it.
Ya, from Harden and Westbrook throwing up a brickfest in the final few minutes of the game. Actually it was a brickfest the entire game for those two.
The only way the ineptitude stops is by filing a protest. Make noise, make news, demand accountability. Then you might see NBA invest in Referees instead of overseas countries like China.
I'm just happy that this situation is shedding light on the incompetence of the NBA officials. I don't really want a replay of the game, though. Can you imagine if we replayed the final 7:50 minutes of regulation and lost? Again? We'd never hear the end of it.
Harden was at 40% from the field prior to that dunk being called a missed shot. Counting that as a miss, he was 2 for 15 from that point through the end of the 2nd overtime.
Imagine if you would. A job offers a bonus at the end of the month to the sales employee who makes the most sales. Salesman A is killing it the first 3 weeks while salesman B is just average. Salesman A has a hugeee lead but during the last week, look out, salesman B makes it interesting, almost ties it up! But alas, salesman A sold 1 more unit. Wait... What's this? Management miscounted and say it's even. But that's not right, clearly salesman A sold more units, but management scoffs at the evidence. Management implies a sudden death scenario, and since salesman B has been hot recently he wins the huge bonus! Salesman B should have never won that but here they are richer because of mismanagement. Salesman A is currently looking into legal action and possibly new employment. But hey... Salesman A should just take that L fam...
You said it was a brickfest the entire game for Harden and I was disputing that. It became a brickfest for him from that point forward.