He's not wrong either, even as a Denver fan the calls being made disgusted me. No one wants a game like this to ever take place, Sengun got such a bad whistle early (leading to two different techs on he and Ime).
Brutal soft calls going the way of the Nugs most of the night.
That bit, particularly the part about the search party for the missing Miami players consisting of just sending some guy to the beach scanning the horizon briefly and then giving up because the sun is too bright, is still one of my favorite jokes lmao. RIP.
The issue is that when the dust was settled, it was bad calls in the 2nd against Houston, bad calls in the 3rd against the nuggets and we had an amazing game all the way until the end.
Like I get it, Amen nipped at THJ's heel, but you can't be hyper cognizant of that right after you ignore that Sengun's last shot in regulation was textbook high five rule. Or how he got shoved in the back by THJ in OT. Either let them play or get control of the game, just anything except that inconsistent bullshit.
It wasn't the under the basket play that was egregious, there were a couple of possessions before that (one in particular I remember being bad) that lead to no calls. I think the under the basket that led to the Ts was just building for them.
The foul they were mad about happened in the same possession as the miss under the basket - but it was when he drove across the lane and felt he got hit across the arms. Based on his reaction, he's probably right, and none of the refs could see it due to how the play developed. HOU kept the ball, then he missed the layup and He and Udoka snapped on the refs. It was probably a VERY blatant foul across the arms that none of the refs could see, and thus missed. I still haven't seen a replay of it - they keep showing the correct no-call on the miss later in the possession.
He's not wrong, but I don't really think Houston got a raw deal. The reffing was really uneven overall and benefited Denver at times and Houston at times.
I only watched till halftime but yes, jokic definitely should have been called for a foul on sengun at the end of the 2nd. they had a right to be update because you know if it was Valanciunas guarding him, it would have been called.
Nuggets fan here. Calls went both ways. Rockets had 25 fouls. Nuggets had 28. They missed a ton of calls, called a bunch of soft calls. Was just horribly reffed and inconsistent left and right.
I wouldn't say it went the way of the Nuggets most of the night. JV and Jokic fouled out. No Rockets fouled out. 28 fouls called on the Nuggets, 25 on Houston.
$7m was his initial salary. He was extended which included a pay increase at the end of last season. He reportedly makes at “least $10m a year” although his exact salary was not publicized. Probably closer to $11-12m per year
I hate billionaires as much as the next guy but I’m not gonna blame him for not going into the tax to resign 32 year old Ariza for a 3 year contract for 15% of the cap in 2019 (equivalent to $23.2m salary today) where he averaged 9.5/4.8/2.4 on 54% TS while playing for 6 different teams in those 3 years.
Especially when the Rockets are currently in the tax, he upgraded the team jet to a $250m Boeing 767 three years ago, $100m on a new practice facility 2 years ago, and another $100m in Toyota Center upgrades last year.
Yeah. He’s been spending a decent amount of money on the Rockets. Not to mention the donations he’s given to University of Houston and McNeese University.
He's a known stereotypical ceo asshole, in terms of how he treated people while he was building his franchises, but as a owner, anyone trying to act like hes bad when we almost beat the greatest team of all time, and after one of the most random and disastrous blowups we are already back in the top with it looking like we will have success for at least 4-5 years straight.
Letting Ariza go wasn't necessarily the problem. It was using assets to duck tax during a time when they were going toe to toe with the KD fucking Warriors. Hell resigning Ariza would still have been a better option than trying to replace him with Melo's corpse on a minimum. He was also the driving force behind the Westbrook trade. He dismantled everything I loved about that team in record time.
Both basketball and football are significantly harder to ref than baseball. Contact adds a lot of layers and discretion that umpires simply don’t have to deal with.
Yeah but its not just the judgment calls I mean they miss or call absolutely blatantly wrong shit. Constantly. And the reviews too, they will make the wrong call on review. Where you can clearly see its the wrong call, and they stick with it anyways. Its just awful to watch.
“When people start complaining about foul calls or crying about physicality, you’ve done your job. That’s the first step in winning the battle. So I told my team, when this team starts crying about it, up the intensity, up the aggressiveness, and make the refs adjust to you.” - Ime Udoka
Unless I missed it, Ime never said to target good injured hand and it was only Brooks doing that. It wasn't some sort of team wide bitch move. That whole thing pissed me off as a fan so I wouldn't mind being proven wrong here.
Officiating this season is the worst I’ve ever seen across the league in my 40 years, by a good margin. It’s so blatant with no recourse, this league’s been steadily driving the game into the ground for 20 years now.
Look, I’m all about holding refs accountable. But he lost to Denver without AG, CB, or Watson. If you’re gonna be a contender, you gotta acknowledge you shouldn’t have let the game be close in the first place.
I mean Denver lost to the Wizards twice last season with Jokic scoring like a million points, then they took OKC to 7, it hardly matters what happens in the regular season
Denver is a funny team. They could win AT LEAST 60 games if they want to and play hard as they do against good teams but come half asleep when playing against below .500 teams.
The last call seems like a fair one, but there were a ton of questionable calls against the Rockets. Murray played out of his damn mind, but when he made a bad business decision refs were immediately there to fix it.
And then in OT they didn't call a clear push against Sengun, when he was mid air, about to dunk the ball lol.
Refs ruined yet another great game which felt like a Finals game.
Obviously yes. But the head coach can easily say something like “yeah we disagreed with the calls but we had a chance to win against a team with half its players out and we didn’t execute, so it’s on us.”
This inflammatory quote pretty clearly implies that he’s putting the blame on the officials.
I didnt even see the game and I guessed right it would be Natalie Sago. She is HORRENDOUS. I genuinely dont know how she is still out there reffing. If you wouldn't have a tef anywhere near an important playoff game, why would you ever have them as a professional ref at all?
Compare this to the standard of officiating in euroleague. Seriously, go watch a euroleague match with 40k screaming chanting fans, and those refs are as cool as it gets. Treat players with respect and humble enough to admit when they make the wrong call.
Both he and Sengun got a tech for yelling at the ref this game and those 2 points mattered. The lack of calls was not great but you have to keep your head just bad leadership.
this guy's genius strategy in the playoffs last year was to keep fouling because they "can't call them all." go back to cheating on your wife bud you aren't a real coach
Didn’t both nuggets centers foul out with Jokic fouling out on a play that looked more like Murray pushed the player into Jokic, which didn’t get overturned?
He’s not wrong but it was bad both ways, refs got big Val 6 fouls in 14 mins including some real softies, then decided to foul Jokic out halfway through OT on a very soft call when Murray clearly fouled the player prior to any contact by Jokic.
Sorry Ime but if you can’t win down the stretch when the Nuggets were missing Gordon, Braun, and Watson then Val and Jokic foul out, that’s on you and yours pal.
Christ, I can't stand this dude. If you want to criticize the refs, fine, whatever, but to say that two of them shouldn't have their jobs and a crew chief was "starstruck"...? GFY Ime
Yea, I'm sure the 20 year vet ref who refereed prime Lebron in the finals was starstruck in a regular season game in Denver. Honestly disappointing. Rockets have so much talent and potential but the immediate deflection and lack of accountability makes me think that they're just going to underachieve again.
Clear contact that caused Hardaway to lose his balance. I don’t like the shot and the ball rule in this situation, but the refs got this call right. They got many others wrong both ways in this game though.
It was a badly officiated game, but to pretend that the calls were favouring Denver and that the refs were star struck by Jokic is hilarious and delusional.
That's the rub. If you let them play then the losing side bitches about the non-calls. If you call it tight, the losing side bitches about the calls. If you try to sit in the middle, the losing team bitches the other team got better end of it.
I didn't see an unfair whistle last night for either team. Bottom line is Houston is just pissed they lost.
The issue was it had playoff game energy but regular season whistle.
I'm sure his comments will be "fine" with the league. That said, he's definitely right that Sago shouldn't be an NBA ref.
But if he thinks the calls favored the Nuggets when Jokic and Valanciunas fouled out (with no Rocket fouling out), that's just wrong - the refs were awful, period.
I don't disagree at all. The officiating fucking sucked, especially in the 4th. Rockets fans are pissed about the Tim call and the Tim no call but there were dozens I was pissed about towards the Nuggets. Fucking fouled out both our centers, had 5 on Jones, and too many on Cam and Murray.
Jank ass calls on both sides all game. At one point Jokic inbounded the ball off a defender who's arm was across the out of bound lines, which according the rule book is a technical. Unfortunately, the refs were unaware of the rule of the sport they are professionally paid to know the rules of.
I’m glad he said it. Refs were awful and inconsistent all game. They were letting them play at first and then they were calling touch fouls. No one knew what to do out there
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Damn lmao getting his money worth for the fine
He's not wrong either, even as a Denver fan the calls being made disgusted me. No one wants a game like this to ever take place, Sengun got such a bad whistle early (leading to two different techs on he and Ime).
Brutal soft calls going the way of the Nugs most of the night.
I thought the game was officiated terribly both ways. Natalie Sago games turn into a shit show so often.
Was at the game and dude sitting next to us was screaming "NATALIE" constantly lmfao
Lmao I actually heard that through the broadcast at the end of the game during a sideline out 🤣
Patrice O'Neal reference?
That bit, particularly the part about the search party for the missing Miami players consisting of just sending some guy to the beach scanning the horizon briefly and then giving up because the sun is too bright, is still one of my favorite jokes lmao. RIP.
If I go sailin, I'ma take a white baby on a keychain wit me.
the sun... the conditions are abnormally difficult!
NATALIEEE.. HOLLOWAYYY.. THAT ANNNGELLL!
The issue is that when the dust was settled, it was bad calls in the 2nd against Houston, bad calls in the 3rd against the nuggets and we had an amazing game all the way until the end.
Like I get it, Amen nipped at THJ's heel, but you can't be hyper cognizant of that right after you ignore that Sengun's last shot in regulation was textbook high five rule. Or how he got shoved in the back by THJ in OT. Either let them play or get control of the game, just anything except that inconsistent bullshit.
The shove in the back by THJ was just so blatant too
She’s so fucking awful
I thought the play Sengun and Udoka got upset about and got techs for was a fine no-call
It wasn't the under the basket play that was egregious, there were a couple of possessions before that (one in particular I remember being bad) that lead to no calls. I think the under the basket that led to the Ts was just building for them.
Okay, fair enough. I wasn't paying close attention to the build-up
The foul they were mad about happened in the same possession as the miss under the basket - but it was when he drove across the lane and felt he got hit across the arms. Based on his reaction, he's probably right, and none of the refs could see it due to how the play developed. HOU kept the ball, then he missed the layup and He and Udoka snapped on the refs. It was probably a VERY blatant foul across the arms that none of the refs could see, and thus missed. I still haven't seen a replay of it - they keep showing the correct no-call on the miss later in the possession.
meh the refs were terrible but in both directions
So it was a poorly officiated game, like the man said.
He's not wrong, but I don't really think Houston got a raw deal. The reffing was really uneven overall and benefited Denver at times and Houston at times.
The calls were definitely going against Houston when it counted (late in the game)
I think his last little line was wrong. You absolutely should adjust to bad officiating. A proud loser is still a loser.
I only watched till halftime but yes, jokic definitely should have been called for a foul on sengun at the end of the 2nd. they had a right to be update because you know if it was Valanciunas guarding him, it would have been called.
This! The game is not fun to watch even if your team is winning when the refs are like this. Something has to change
Yeah both teams got fucked tbh glad we can agree with that. Except your fans coming into our sub talking shit, most of ya are cool
But seriously, one second they would call some of the softest fouls ever then literally let both sides hammer each other. It was so inconsistent
Nuggets fan here. Calls went both ways. Rockets had 25 fouls. Nuggets had 28. They missed a ton of calls, called a bunch of soft calls. Was just horribly reffed and inconsistent left and right.
I wouldn't say it went the way of the Nuggets most of the night. JV and Jokic fouled out. No Rockets fouled out. 28 fouls called on the Nuggets, 25 on Houston.
Bad officiating overall, but they hit both teams.
Yeah might as well go all in, theres a cap in that anyway 😅
+30% Team Chemistry
+10% popularity with fanbase
-1% income
I got curious
50k max fine. 7 million salary.
-.7% income
$7m was his initial salary. He was extended which included a pay increase at the end of last season. He reportedly makes at “least $10m a year” although his exact salary was not publicized. Probably closer to $11-12m per year
yeah but the fine comes from income after taxes
incoming pat spencer is the GOAT of % of income in fines debate
Taxes? Might be that 1%
-50000$
That female ref was terrible at the end of the game
Nugget fan here - the no call on the THJ push followed immediately by the needless pushing call at half court was a REALLY brutal sequence.
The trip at the end of regulation though was a correct call though (not Sago's call, fwiw).
-$50K
That's nothing for him considering how much he gave to lawyers.
How will he financially recover 😭
That’s at least 2 second hand Subarus
damn lol
“The crew chief is acting star struck” is an all time ref rant moment
For a second I thought Jusuf Nurkić dropped triple double on the Rockets.
Yea, also confusing for me
Tilman Fertitta signing off the fine check as we speak
Tilman made Morey give away multiple assets just to dodge the luxury taxes after 2018, Ime payin outta pocket for sure LMAO.
That miserly prick drove away Harden, Morey and D'antoni in span of a year because he was too fucking cheap. Fuck him and his kind.
Anyone who has a chair with their own face on it in their office is a tool.
You’re telling me the guy with a book titled Shut Up and Listen is a tool?
Wannabe discount Trump
Literally. He even had his own "Apprentice" show that aired in Houston at 3 am a couple of years ago lol
I hate billionaires as much as the next guy but I’m not gonna blame him for not going into the tax to resign 32 year old Ariza for a 3 year contract for 15% of the cap in 2019 (equivalent to $23.2m salary today) where he averaged 9.5/4.8/2.4 on 54% TS while playing for 6 different teams in those 3 years.
Especially when the Rockets are currently in the tax, he upgraded the team jet to a $250m Boeing 767 three years ago, $100m on a new practice facility 2 years ago, and another $100m in Toyota Center upgrades last year.
Yeah. He’s been spending a decent amount of money on the Rockets. Not to mention the donations he’s given to University of Houston and McNeese University.
UofH's locker room is top notch lol
He's a known stereotypical ceo asshole, in terms of how he treated people while he was building his franchises, but as a owner, anyone trying to act like hes bad when we almost beat the greatest team of all time, and after one of the most random and disastrous blowups we are already back in the top with it looking like we will have success for at least 4-5 years straight.
Letting Ariza go wasn't necessarily the problem. It was using assets to duck tax during a time when they were going toe to toe with the KD fucking Warriors. Hell resigning Ariza would still have been a better option than trying to replace him with Melo's corpse on a minimum. He was also the driving force behind the Westbrook trade. He dismantled everything I loved about that team in record time.
Your owner is cheap as shit bro. Actively fucked your team multiple times because he didn’t wanna pay up.
huh? maybe first couple years not anymore lol
he boomed with the legal gambling
Bro grew that mob money
That ambassador to Italy money
That ask Trump for PPP loan money money
Legit piece of shit human.
The NBA does need to revamp its refs though, some of them are clearly not fit for the job (like Natalie Sago in this game)
Scott Foster
Scott "draft kings " foster aka Chris Paul's daddy
You mean Scott “The Fix is In” Foster
Never seen a ref have an Undertaker Wrestlemania streak against one player like him
Although when Barkley and Bevetta were running up and down the court during games, the camera wasn’t on them.
Officiating is best when we don’t know the names of the refs
Unless its Bill Kennedy. He's cool
Sago is the worst ref in the league by far. Not in that she is bias or anything like some refs. She's just not good at the job.
The NFL and NBA are two of the poorest officiated leagues and watching MLB really shows the disparity.
Both basketball and football are significantly harder to ref than baseball. Contact adds a lot of layers and discretion that umpires simply don’t have to deal with.
Yeah but its not just the judgment calls I mean they miss or call absolutely blatantly wrong shit. Constantly. And the reviews too, they will make the wrong call on review. Where you can clearly see its the wrong call, and they stick with it anyways. Its just awful to watch.
Classic Ime lol
N. Jukic lol
“When people start complaining about foul calls or crying about physicality, you’ve done your job. That’s the first step in winning the battle. So I told my team, when this team starts crying about it, up the intensity, up the aggressiveness, and make the refs adjust to you.” - Ime Udoka
It's basically the OKC concept - constantly foul, and they won't call them all, while the media will proclaim the defense "great"..
If this quote is true. He seems to be able to dish but not take very well.
Wdym if it’s true? Where have you been lol
I didn't see the video of when he said this.
From last year
Thanks!
This the guy who said keep fouling Steph cause they can’t call them all.
This was the guy who said keep targeting Steph’s injured hand.
Is that illegal?
i will make it legal
Unless I missed it, Ime never said to target good injured hand and it was only Brooks doing that. It wasn't some sort of team wide bitch move. That whole thing pissed me off as a fan so I wouldn't mind being proven wrong here.
Brooks was hitting Steph's injured finger over and over last season.
Sengun was literally elbowing Wemby all game with no calls last time Rockets vs the Spurs.
You cant get more hypocritical than that.
Exactly. He built his coaching culture off of physicality and toughness, then cries at the end of a game. Weak sauce
Hes such a bitch
Show him the video
Send da video
Hell nawl can't do this
You got da money wats da Hol up
-500k
"... and the crew chief was acting star-struck" is such a great line.
Ironically, I think Zarba is the best ref in the league.
Hope he enjoys signing checks to the NBA.
Obviously didn’t see last nights game of Suns Lakers
Officiating this season is the worst I’ve ever seen across the league in my 40 years, by a good margin. It’s so blatant with no recourse, this league’s been steadily driving the game into the ground for 20 years now.
You can tell it’s bad because someone says this every year
Driving the game into the ground so hard that more people are watching than ever in the century
Refs didn’t draw up that garbage Sengun Hail Mary play with 6 seconds on the clock.
The game was winnable.
Ime and Sengun have no poise, and I’m sick of it. 6 seconds left and you live with a Sengun fady from the wing!?
With Reed and KD on the court!?
Good game, Denver.
Edit. And yes, the refs were terrible.
I’m certain the play wasn’t to give Sengun a shot there
The fact you thought that’s what was drawn up rather than the original plan got blown up and they called an audible is quite funny.
Look, I’m all about holding refs accountable. But he lost to Denver without AG, CB, or Watson. If you’re gonna be a contender, you gotta acknowledge you shouldn’t have let the game be close in the first place.
I mean Denver lost to the Wizards twice last season with Jokic scoring like a million points, then they took OKC to 7, it hardly matters what happens in the regular season
Denver is a funny team. They could win AT LEAST 60 games if they want to and play hard as they do against good teams but come half asleep when playing against below .500 teams.
Not like Rockets were perfectly healthy either. nearly $50m in salary didn’t play tonight in Tari, DFS, and Fred.
Also gotta hold yourself and your team accountable too. Even at the pro level that mindset starts with the coaching staff.
The last call seems like a fair one, but there were a ton of questionable calls against the Rockets. Murray played out of his damn mind, but when he made a bad business decision refs were immediately there to fix it.
And then in OT they didn't call a clear push against Sengun, when he was mid air, about to dunk the ball lol.
Refs ruined yet another great game which felt like a Finals game.
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You can both think that the refs were terrible and that you should have closed the game out, those things aren’t mutually exclusive lol
The refs were terrible. Just ask me, my teams two centers fouled out
Refs were trash. Both teams got some bad calls though. Refs were inconsistent, especially late.
Obviously yes. But the head coach can easily say something like “yeah we disagreed with the calls but we had a chance to win against a team with half its players out and we didn’t execute, so it’s on us.”
This inflammatory quote pretty clearly implies that he’s putting the blame on the officials.
Did you watch the whole interview?
But spending this much time on it. Wiser coaches would say never leave it to the refs.
Keep drawing up dogshit inbounds plays.
Dude, we lost a game last week because we couldn't inbound the ball 3 fucking times! You can't be talking shit right now haha
Lol, we Warriors fans know a bad inbounds play when we see one. Because we see a lot of them.
N. Jukic? Wut?
I didnt even see the game and I guessed right it would be Natalie Sago. She is HORRENDOUS. I genuinely dont know how she is still out there reffing. If you wouldn't have a tef anywhere near an important playoff game, why would you ever have them as a professional ref at all?
Compare this to the standard of officiating in euroleague. Seriously, go watch a euroleague match with 40k screaming chanting fans, and those refs are as cool as it gets. Treat players with respect and humble enough to admit when they make the wrong call.
Both he and Sengun got a tech for yelling at the ref this game and those 2 points mattered. The lack of calls was not great but you have to keep your head just bad leadership.
And its not like its was a purposeful tech to light his guys up, it happened with 30 seconds left in the 2nd lol
Lol. So star struck that Jokic fouled out, which he rarely does.
this guy's genius strategy in the playoffs last year was to keep fouling because they "can't call them all." go back to cheating on your wife bud you aren't a real coach
Idk, seems like that strategy works just fine for the Thunder. Maybe it's a personnel issue. 🤷🏿♂️
why does the nba allow rockets and thunder to play "defense" like this and no other team can?
He hasn't seen the video, this gonna look bad lol
He isn't talking about just one play...you haven't seen the game ig
The game tonight, where both Nuggets centers fouled out?
Didn’t both nuggets centers foul out with Jokic fouling out on a play that looked more like Murray pushed the player into Jokic, which didn’t get overturned?
He's clearly talking about numerous uncalled travels on rockets players, and about 8 uncalled offensive fouls on Sengun.
these rockets fans only see 1 side of the ball.
L2M report. Was only 1 side of the ball to see it from sorry casual
It was crazy to watch them call a screening foul on Jonas and then sengun comes down the other end and two hand shoves as a “screen” and just nothing.
L2M report
Did you see him get a tech earlier for missed calls? He is talking about the whole game.
Who refs the referees?
Crazy that Sengun got outplayed with that stat line…
He must have missed the Suns / Fakers game on Sunday
i hope all players and coaches start eating the fines just to get a point across. Officiating is disgusting across the board.
Bro was star struck is hilarious afffff
He’s not wrong but it was bad both ways, refs got big Val 6 fouls in 14 mins including some real softies, then decided to foul Jokic out halfway through OT on a very soft call when Murray clearly fouled the player prior to any contact by Jokic.
Sorry Ime but if you can’t win down the stretch when the Nuggets were missing Gordon, Braun, and Watson then Val and Jokic foul out, that’s on you and yours pal.
The inconsistency in the whistle is going to destroy this league.
N. Jukic is houstons arch nemesis
He really picked up the slack after Joker fouled out
Christ, I can't stand this dude. If you want to criticize the refs, fine, whatever, but to say that two of them shouldn't have their jobs and a crew chief was "starstruck"...? GFY Ime
Yea, I'm sure the 20 year vet ref who refereed prime Lebron in the finals was starstruck in a regular season game in Denver. Honestly disappointing. Rockets have so much talent and potential but the immediate deflection and lack of accountability makes me think that they're just going to underachieve again.
There are PLENTY of refs around the league who should not be officiating NBA games. I have no problem with him saying that.
Ime we’re on live
Doesn't his team play hard physical defense? Which can be called fouls? Smh
What happened in Boston?
they lost to detroit
https://www.reddit.com/r/nba/s/l8TucVHlZq
Alternate view of the foul. Also both Jokic and Jonas fouled out?
Clear contact that caused Hardaway to lose his balance. I don’t like the shot and the ball rule in this situation, but the refs got this call right. They got many others wrong both ways in this game though.
We can't allow facts in here. That's a ban.
Loser talk, if you gonna talk about something, talk about whatever that last drawn play was lol.
Why have KD take the game deciding shot when you have Sengun on the team.
And why use all eight seconds of clock when you can just have Sengun take a fadeaway turnaround three off the inbounds pass?
Sore loser
He is correct, the refs didn’t know that touching the ball over the end line is a technical.
He’s not wrong 90% of NBA refs are either gambling or disgracefully incompetent
They got an elite defensive game from KD and still lost to the nuggets downs two starters, I'd be heated too
They literally spelled Jokic’s name wrong on the side highlights…
It was a badly officiated game, but to pretend that the calls were favouring Denver and that the refs were star struck by Jokic is hilarious and delusional.
The refs are known for being friendly towards Jokic you know LOL
Lots of crying for someone that openly said "they can't call all the fouls"
Not the Crew Chief :(
Zach Zarba, one of the best officials in the league, was hardly starstruck.
As usual, people complain about the refs only when they lose.
J U K I C
Who is N. Jukic?
I’m glad the nuggets won at the same time, though….. PREACH! The officiating in the nba sucks and more coaches should get their money’s worth
Can someone PLEASE slap Adam Silver?
I mean Jokic and Val fouled out. The refs were equally bad for once which means they were neutral
That's the rub. If you let them play then the losing side bitches about the non-calls. If you call it tight, the losing side bitches about the calls. If you try to sit in the middle, the losing team bitches the other team got better end of it.
I didn't see an unfair whistle last night for either team. Bottom line is Houston is just pissed they lost.
The issue was it had playoff game energy but regular season whistle.
Who the hell is N. Jukic lmaooo
Obviously didn't watch the suns lakers game the night before.
Not the first terribly officiated game and won’t be the last. There are games today so another opportunity for referee incompetence.
I'm sure his comments will be "fine" with the league. That said, he's definitely right that Sago shouldn't be an NBA ref.
But if he thinks the calls favored the Nuggets when Jokic and Valanciunas fouled out (with no Rocket fouling out), that's just wrong - the refs were awful, period.
I thought Jokic was getting murdered with no calls. He also fouled out on a BS call that should have been on Murray
N Jukic
I don't disagree at all. The officiating fucking sucked, especially in the 4th. Rockets fans are pissed about the Tim call and the Tim no call but there were dozens I was pissed about towards the Nuggets. Fucking fouled out both our centers, had 5 on Jones, and too many on Cam and Murray.
Did anyone show him the replay? Maybe someone should have brought their phone up to show him MrBuckBuck’s second post of it
Jank ass calls on both sides all game. At one point Jokic inbounded the ball off a defender who's arm was across the out of bound lines, which according the rule book is a technical. Unfortunately, the refs were unaware of the rule of the sport they are professionally paid to know the rules of.
who is N. Jukic?
Isn't this dude suppose to be a tough guy?
Stop crying diva
I’m glad he said it. Refs were awful and inconsistent all game. They were letting them play at first and then they were calling touch fouls. No one knew what to do out there
This coming from the guy that encourages his team to hurt opposing players. Loser ass coach
Was dogshit both ways Coach
He’s delusional
You can see why the players (aside from Adams) are so soft.
It's incredibly hilarious to see them want to beat everyone up physically but apparently can't take a little pushback.
Refs were atrocious all night for both teams but these guys will act like they weren’t getting calls all night and that they were slighted.