ClutchFans Game Thread: Rockets @ Lakers 2/21/2019

19 point lead ...

 

And if he's hitting them...outcome all the Hargod references. He was 11/24....several HORRIBLE calls go against him. Was more upset with the 8 turnovers. He's a hero when he hits them and a goat when he doesn't. The tone was set for him by the officials very early on. The only thing Foster would have enjoyed more than the Rockets losing would have been to have the 30 pt. streak broken. If our record really is 0-7 with Scott Foster, there should really be an investigation.

 

Other hints include employees prosecuted by the federal government for game rigging.

 

Rockets and Harden won that GSW OT game without EG and CP and that game was rigged worse than this one. KD took 17 steps out of bounds for goodness sake. The Rockets played harder in that game than the refs and the refs played pretty f-cking hard to rig that game.

 

Scott foster does what the league tells him to do.The Warriors who are the nba’s cash cow had to win game 7 and Lebron the golden child can’t miss the playoffs

 

That warriors game had a **** call. This game had a **** feel. They were out for blood from the opening tip.

 

Whatever let's agree to agree to disagree. But, oddly we seem to agree. If I'm reading correctly, you think the refs f'd our team, but wanted our team to overcome it.

I think at some point, if the refs are motivated enough, you can't overcome it. How many players did you want them to foul out?

 

They should have just awarded the win to LA before the game and saved Foster's lips all that effort blowing his whistle.

 

Not to mention 2nd chance points disparity...

 

This. Best take of the night.

 

You know when Shaq and Charles are calling out foster and the rest of the corrupt henchmen out over the bogus fouls then something ain’t kosher

 

Naw the GSW games down the stretch in regulation and in OT was a rig job.

 

"The NBA rigs games. Hence we ended up losing the WCF. We should have tried harder this game."

Please.

 

Was it officiated worse?

Bad officiating means you make some bad calls, even if they are in the last seconds.
A rigged game, is one that you strategically and methodically throw the teams' star from the beginning off his game and then throw him out of the game.

 

Boom and the fraud gets exposed.The nba keeps these crooks with no moral or scrupulously corrupt scum around because it knows they will gladly fix games and do stern or now silvers bidding.

 

I'm saying that the refs didn't f-ck the Rockets until it was safe to f-ck the Rockets. Harden and CP were in no danger of fouling out until it got close. This game didn't have to get close.

 

Listen I still think the Rockets should have one the WCF WITH THE RIG JOB. Harden was trying to get calls from refs that were never going to give him calls! Why even put that game in the hands of the refs when he didn't need them in the first place!? Rockets missed 27 threes and still lost by single digits.

 

Look, you are a great poster with more history than me.

But seriously, once you concede it is rigged, trying to justify our losing isn't helping.

We can disagree, but this wasn't "close calls" that went the other way. Harden was handcuffed from the beginning. Our best players fouled out. Phantom calls.

It seems like the only place we disagree is how far those refs would go. I saw enough that they would go as far as it took.

And even if you are right, that it was rigged but we could have somehow beat it anyways, that is scant comfort. That is not a sport.