jbk1234 wrote:Iwasawitness wrote:jbk1234 wrote:
Not really. I'm pretty used to smaller guys being able to get physical with Mobley, especially in the playoffs. Again, I don't care how much any of the Cavs players are going to the line. I care the game gets called the same both ways.
What I do care very much about is the Raptors being allowed to shove or shoulder the Cavs good defenders out of legal guarding position, and then get rewarded with a touch foul after doing so. I hate that **** in the regular season and it has no place in the playoffs. It also kind of sucks knowing that a black swan event like that happened against your team, because I would bet big money that the Raps don't get that type of whistle again.
The game is never going to get called "both ways". It's always going to come down to which team gets lucky. Look at the history of the NBA. Can you honestly say that there have been more evenly called games than biased or one sided ones?
Again, I didn't watch the game. I can't comment on how things played out. But based on what I'm seeing, I do agree that saying "refs cost the Cavs the game" is a bit of a stretch. I would be willing to wager that Harden having seven first half turnovers, Mitchell waiting until the fourth quarter to score, Strus going 0-5 from three, Mobley playing terrible and Allen only scoring 3 points are just a few of the many reasons why Cleveland lost this game.
You can't really do much about bad officiating. You can absolutely do something about your team playing terrible. I don't buy into this idea that we should be blaming the officials when the team you lost to shot 4-30 from three.
Watch the game. Seriously.
Part of what happened is that the guys the Cavs left open from 3 simply aren't good three points shooters. We gave Shead and Walters the Okoro treatment, they took 13 three pointers, and made none of them. Battle was not left unattended for his one attempt. Ingram was 3/7 which is actually above his average. Barrett was 1/6 which is an attempt off his.
You gave Walter the Okoro treatment and that isn't going to work out lol. He shot 40% from 3 this year, and has shot 52% since February. He just missed some open looks yesterday.
Even if you don't do any further research, and just go off of RS %'s, the Raptors definitely "should" have hit more than 4 threes. Even Shead going 0/5 is a "worse" performance than you expect from him.
Like Barnes/Walter/RJ/Shead/Mamu/Battle went a combined 1/23 yesterday. That is a 30%, 40%, 34%, 32%, 39%, and 41% shooter going a combined 4.3%.
Even if we shot 30% on those (which isn't a crazy ask considering they all are 30% or better shooters), that is 6 more makes and 18 more points. Considering 10 of those shots were from 40% guys (JKW/Mamu/Battle), 30% is probably a low estimate to.
Like IDK what you are even talking about. You can't expect us to shoot 4/30 from 3 again, right?
