re: Pelicans 114 @ Rockets 121 - Final - Game Thread

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1. Defensive 3 second that was totally missed by Dwight. 2. Harden literally tripping, still dribbling the ball and made no motion or act of shooting, gets two free throws. 3. Dwight pushes asik with two hands, Fully extended, no offensive foul call. Somehow ends up being a foul on asik after he was off balance from the shove. 4. Ball gets knocked out with <2 minutes left in the 3rs by brewer in front of a ref, not even a hesitation, out on pelicans. 5. AD snared a rebound, someone literally hopped on his back and poked it out. Turnover, rockets ball.

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Were those all in the second half?

Of course that's not a foul, hits to the face that make you look like a bitch aren't fouls.

And ptm, all in the 2nd. You can say bad officiating happens, but that was beyond reason.

I watched the entire second half and made note of every bad call. I'll respond to yours first, and then post others that I saw.

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1. Defensive 3 second that was totally missed by Dwight.

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That was not a defensive 3-second violation. Here is the rule from the NBA rule book, page 35 and 36:



https://i.cdn.turner.com/nba/nba/.element/pdf/2.0/sect/officiating/Official_NBA_Rule_Rook_09-10.pdf


In other words, Howard was allowed to be in the lane since his man had the ball. It didn't matter that he wasn't "actively guarding" Asik at "arm's length" because his man had the ball.

If Asik did not have the ball, then Howard would have to either get within arm's length of Asik (or another offensive player) to remain in the lane, or step outside of it to reset the count.

Joel Meyers didn't know the rule.

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2. Harden literally tripping, still dribbling the ball and made no motion or act of shooting, gets two free throws.

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This did not happen in the second half. I'm not sure if what you are referring to was in the first half, but it wasn't in the second. Harden only shot 4 free throws in the second half, at 8:59 and 4:00 of the 3rd quarter, and neither of those match your description.

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3. Dwight pushes asik with two hands, Fully extended, no offensive foul call. Somehow ends up being a foul on asik after he was off balance from the shove.

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This also did not happen in the second half. May have happened in the first, but not the second.

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4. Ball gets knocked out with <2 minutes left in the 3rs by brewer in front of a ref, not even a hesitation, out on pelicans.

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This was a bad call and I said the same to myself when I saw it yesterday. Right off of Brewer's thigh.

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5. AD snared a rebound, someone literally hopped on his back and poked it out. Turnover, rockets ball.

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This also did not happen in the second half. Once again, it may have happened in the first, but not the second.

The only instance of this in the second half that even remotely resembles what you are talking about, was a rebound off of a Josh Smith missed free-throw. AD grabs the rebound, and Corey Brewer pokes the ball out from behind (he never jumped). The ball is on the floor, and Trevor Ariza falls on it and calls timeout.

There was nothing close to a foul there, and nobody jumped on AD, so I'm not sure if that is the play you are referring to. But nothing else in the second half resembles the play you are talking about.






Now, here were some other missed calls I saw while watching the second half:


Harden drives on a fast break at 1:08 of the 3rd Quarter, and Pondexter purposely fouls the crap out of him, yet no call is made.








I also remember people talking about the shot clock violation in the game thread. The refs did miss that the ball hit the rim, so it shouldn't have been a shot clock violation.

However, people in the thread, and Joel Meyers on TV said that the ball was out of bounds off of Terrence Jones and it should have been Pelicans ball anyway. But the refs gave it to the Rockets.

Well, the replay shows Meyers is wrong.

Here is Evans touching the ball last (by the way, there is still 0.6 left on the clock):




Close up. May take a second to see what's going on because it's kind of motion blurred, but that is Tyreke Evan's hand knocking the ball backwards and out of bounds:






So regardless of the wrong shot clock violation call, the ball was out on the Pelicans anyway.








There was also another bad call in the 4th Quarter with 5:04 left on the clock. The referees called a foul on Harden when he defended a Tyreke Evans reverse lay-up. Harden didn't touch him. The replays showed that it was not even close to a foul. I would post pictures, but a still picture cannot convey that somebody DIDN'T foul. You'd have to see the replay for yourself.

A still picture can only capture the moment a player DID foul.

But it was a bad call, and the Pelicans got free throws out of it.

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PrimeTime Money

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You are going full retard, son.