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Originally Posted by girllovesthegame
I'm sure you do find it funny but don't act like you guys have never blamed refs about anything. I'm pretty sure you guys did a lot of it in your Jailblazer days. No, everything wasn't totally the refs faults and no one here is blaming everything on them but some of the calls made at inopportune times made sure to take any zest or confidence the Hornets 'thought' they were building up away. Actually I'd place more blame on the Hornets' p*ss poor shooting and not trying to get to line more than blaming the refs. Moving on.
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No that's not what I meant at all, sorry for the miscommunication, it's hard to write things the way you mean it sometimes.
About the refs, I think it's funny because the "Jailblazers" WERE known to be huge complainers and led the league in technicals and even had one player (Rasheed) physically threaten a ref after a game. And the current team is just a bunch of unknowns (we don't have an AI or a Kobe or a Tim Duncan) so we don't get any star calls. My point was the Blazers are the last team that is going to be favored by the refs.
And you may have felt there were bad calls against the Hornets (and there probably were like there are in every NBA game anymore) but the Blazers had some bad calls too. In fact there was a really bad call against the Blazers right at the beginning. Joel jumped for the tip off, Tyson wasn't ready and just didn't jump, so the ref called a quick jump and gave the ball to NO. Also, one of our starting forwards, Frye, got 3 ticky tack fouls in 3 minutes! Talk about taking the zest and confidence out of the Blazers. There were bad calls at both ends it's just that the fans only notice the ones against their team.
And my question about the Hornets losing composure to the Blazers was a real one. I can understand being annoyed with the Spurs (who do get every call and know all the dirty tricks in the book) or the Jazz (who get pretty physical) but the Blazers just seem so innocuous compaired to those other teams. I wonder if it's because the Blazers are perceived as a bad team so it's more frustrating to struggle against them or lose to them.