It’s like some of you didn’t watch the game

This is a 2 man team and the refs took those 2 men out of the game. You may have missed the first half but the Minutes and FTs being so far off their averages in both directions says a lot. It’d be different if they had just been calling it tight or loose, but either the officials were off or the Raptors found the right angles to use against the Pels.

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But I didn't see where the refs were calling anything unfair. 

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Well it hurt us that AD and DC had 3 fouls apiece in the 1st half off mostly bullshite calls.

I said it last night, the refs swallowed the refs for our big but they didn't get the benefit on the other end. Ridiculous.

I was at the game, and thought the same thing. Horrible officiating.

there was a moment late in the 3rd (I think) where the officials seemed to have wanted to call a bunch of fouls on Toronto to even the playing field. Some bullshite calls and I thought that it was obvious what they were doing.

Hahah he has the team winning more than the previous three years only bc we’ve sucked during the rest of his tenure. So keep him bc he’s slightly less sucky than he has been?

And again this is fool’s gold. We’re super lucky to be 8-7 against one of the easiest schedules in the nba. We could easily be 4-11. Gentry sucks as a coach it’s obvious from both his time here and previous stops. Idk who you get in midseason, but the earlier you cut out the Uncle Al cancer the better

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Like I said, I watched most of the 2nd half. Both Cousins and Davis were playing almost the whole time. Both Toronto bigs were in foul trouble as well and they played their back ups a lot. The Raptors have a big physical front court and there is going to be a lot of contact playing them. The total foul calls were virtually the same (them 20, us 21). I just think its a cop out. 

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Its not a cop out. Our bigs were in foul trouble late in the first quarter becsuse of bs calls and they couldn't be aggressive on the defensive end the whole game because of the way the gane was called against them.

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Pels defense was terrible last night.

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The Pels defense has been terrible all year when both AD/DC aren't on the court at the same time. It's a top 5 defense when they are both on the court together. Hill is the team's best perimeter defender, Jrue was the 2nd best and the rest are guys that are slightly below average at best. The defense is bad because the personnel is lacking with Hill out. I also think they've been focusing on offense in practice based on the things they talk about to the media. Transition defense is about the only kind of defense you hear mentioned much in post game/practice pressers.

Monty talked about defense all the time and outside of the last CP3 year when they had CP3/Ariza/Okafor sparking a top 10 defense, Monty's teams were usually bottom 3rd of the league. I'm not saying I wouldn't upgrade Gentry if I could, but I think a lot of people think changing coaches can fix things that only roster changes can fix. The early returns on Rondo look pretty promising and I'd argue Rondo might make more of a "coaching" difference in how this team plays than any coach you could bring in that wasn't Pop.

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blaming the refs for a loss is something losing teams and losing franchises do. Shouldn’t ever be an excuse.

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It's not an excuse, it's a fact that this team is built in a manner where it's dependent on both AD/DC to function at a non terrible level. Maybe Rondo and Hill can change that by fixing the perimeter defense and turnovers on offense, but for now the officials can pretty much shut this team down anytime they choose.