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i'm quite disgusted with the NBA refs tonight turning a blind eye to westbrook's actions.

Like I want to set aside any notion that the NBA is “fixed”

But I do think they have a profit motive. Last year revenue fell way short because of less playoff games...

From the article on Scott Foster who was voted the worst official and it was not close.

https://www.google.com/amp/www.lati...t-referees-20160131-story.html?outputType=amp

Here is the quote that should make us nervous:

Foster, 48, who got the worst grades of any referee, has been in the business for 22 seasons.

"He had one of our playoff games and as soon as he walked in, I was like, 'This game is over.' We all knew we were going to get bad calls, and we did," said one veteran player. "You couldn't say anything to him. Hell, I don't think you could even look at him."

"You can't talk to him. He's never wrong," one player complained about Foster. "I like refs where they say, 'You know what, I made a mistake. I saw it at halftime. You were right.' But Scott Foster thinks he never makes a mistake. The players see the stats of how he is on the road. He always helps the road team out. He loves to stick it to teams."
 
Scott Foster is the ref Chris Paul was pissed at so maybe he doesn’t cater to stars... if we don’t get a fair whistle tonight after the non suspension and tough calls on Rudy and Favs then I may go full NBA conspiracy guy.

Again it’s not about one team to me... it is extending playoff series... Tony Brothers officiated Boston’s game last night... they had lost 6 straight playoff games he officiated... now 7.

The NBA is giving the tinfoil hat crowd a ton of ammo.
 
https://www.si.com/more-sports/2008/11/04/foster

And I’m officially a tin foil hat guy... this was a guy who was close with Tim Donaghy and had a few hundred phone calls back and forth with Tim... based on the way Tim was betting games he may have “unknowingly” provided info to Tim.

I don’t know guys... can’t Monty come out of retirement and ref this game. Rudy needs to do the Capela one arm behind his back for the first quarter. No DM euro fouls... we need to conserve them all.
 
Puts tin foil hat back on...

Apparently haralobob posted a tweet two years ago about Scott Foster having a 13 game road team winning streak in the playoffs... after the tweet the streak was miraculously broken.

Someone @ Bob and get him to post something.
 
At least his involvement and past issues gives me something to point to if we don’t get a good whistle... we could just win by 30 and give me nothing to stress about.
 
This is where I think Quin failed us in that game. He didn't anticipate a big run, and settled for his normal rotations, even when Westbrook started showing he was trying to take the game over. At this point, regardless of the endless **** spewed by the refs, he needed to mix things up, throw a different look at RW, get smaller faster guys on the court. Something. I think he makes the adjustments they need, I just hope if OKC does really throw something new at us during the game that Quin adjusts to it better than he did last game.
 
LogGrad98 said:
This is where I think Quin failed us in that game. He didn't anticipate a big run, and settled for his normal rotations, even when Westbrook started showing he was trying to take the game over. At this point, regardless of the endless **** spewed by the refs, he needed to mix things up, throw a different look at RW, get smaller faster guys on the court. Something. I think he makes the adjustments they need, I just hope if OKC does really throw something new at us during the game that Quin adjusts to it better than he did last game.
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Meh... when you are up 18 and both of your paint protectors are in foul trouble it's tough to slow down Russ. He made midrangers and threes. The offense was the biggest issue... Even if we had just gotten bad shots off we might win by running clock and not turning it over. There were a few nuclear turnovers in there that led to baskets.

Quin has been very good. Trust him.
 
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