Kings @ Bulls Game Thread
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Ref thinks to himself: "Miller scores and is fouled...Oh, wait! I almost forgot, we have to screw over the Kings in the fourth whenever the opportunity present itself. I'll just reverse that call..."
Apparenty the Kings will have to be ahead by 10 pts in the 4th from here on out if they want to win a game the rest of the season.
Apparenty the Kings will have to be ahead by 10 pts in the 4th from here on out if they want to win a game the rest of the season.
Look, it really is THIS simple. Games are OFTEN close in the NBA, when they are close, it comes down to a couple things, concentration, execution, sometimes merely the bounce of the ball. What you DON'T need on top of those things is the distraction of having to overcome mistakes? (is it even possible that 3 highly trained professionals ALL missed the fact that his foot was in the circle, when that's freaking what they look for?) made by the refs. That blown call was a 5 point swing.
That's all you need to overcome a 4 or 6 point lead.
That's all you need to overcome a 4 or 6 point lead.
The calls are starting to get real old... but the Kings need to start expecting this now. This game was gift-wrapped for us by the Bulls number of turnovers and missed FT's.
The Kings did not capitalize on this by shooting poorly, playing carelessly at big moments during the 4th and letting themselves get down by so many points early.
I hate the officiating as much as the rest of you do, but these are games we could win DESPITE that. Go ahead, crucify me for pointing that out.
I'm hoping this is just a funk we're in instead of a steady decline to one of the lower seeds in the Western Conference.
The Kings did not capitalize on this by shooting poorly, playing carelessly at big moments during the 4th and letting themselves get down by so many points early.
I hate the officiating as much as the rest of you do, but these are games we could win DESPITE that. Go ahead, crucify me for pointing that out.
I'm hoping this is just a funk we're in instead of a steady decline to one of the lower seeds in the Western Conference.
boy, I feel like I have had my heartbroken so many times in the last few games. It's not that losing games is a problem, but when you're trying to make a comeback and the refs interfere over and over again it's just sickening. Honestly. Before the last few games, I rarely complained about the refs, because I felt like bad (and good) calls went both ways & things evened themselves out. That clearly has not been the case lately, when last minute non calls/bad calls have really killed us. Besides the bad call, the most disturbing thing to me was Bibby's clutch free throw misses. Weird, wasn't it just a year ago that we would have wanted Bibby to be the one fouled at the end of the game? Now I'd much prefer to see Webb going to the line when the game is one the line. Oh well, it's in his head, but hopefully he can work through it, and hopefully sooner rather than later!! Well, onto the next game folks, and we'll take it from there. GOOOOO Kings!
The Kings shouldn't have to play to win by enough of a margin to negate bad officiating.
The point is that ONCE AGAIN the Kings had a call go against them. Even Tank Thompson was stunned. He said he couldn't remember the last time three officials talked together and still got it wrong.
Yeah, you can point to other things but when a team fights back, overcomes a deficit, and is staging a strong drive at the end, a non-call OR bad call is beyond huge. It is clearly - and we should know this by heart by this time - game altering.
Can you honestly tell me if you were out there playing you wouldn't be feeling as though all your efforts had just gone for naught?
The point is that ONCE AGAIN the Kings had a call go against them. Even Tank Thompson was stunned. He said he couldn't remember the last time three officials talked together and still got it wrong.
Yeah, you can point to other things but when a team fights back, overcomes a deficit, and is staging a strong drive at the end, a non-call OR bad call is beyond huge. It is clearly - and we should know this by heart by this time - game altering.
Can you honestly tell me if you were out there playing you wouldn't be feeling as though all your efforts had just gone for naught?
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