State of the Union

That game yesterday was horrible, not because Brandon Roy hurt his sore ankle more, not because we lost, not because we couldn't play offense in the second half, but rather because of the deferential treatment the fucking NBA ref's give to 'star teams' or 'star players'. So many times I saw dirty play, fouls, full on shoves against the Blazers and nothing was done about it. How about when Eddie House shoved Martell Webster onto the floor and out of bounds when a rebound was coming down, then running down the floor, being wide open and hitting a three while you could see Martell just running back down the floor. Or when Paul Pierce jumped on top of LaMarcus Aldridge trying to get a rebound, pulling himself and LA down to the floor and then the ref's calling a double foul, what????

I mean that was just bad, and the ref's in the NBA suck. It's one thing to make a bad call here or there, or to miss something, but seriously for an entire half being deferential to one team, then making calls for the other team once in awhile to try to make it look balanced?? Give me a break. I was so fed up with Garnett talking shit and mauling people then bitching at the refs to the point he should have had at LEAST one tech, and four or five fouls by the third quarter, and then at the end of the game bitching once again to the refs when a player tapped his forearm and he didn't have a foul called. Just ridiculous. Yeah the Blazers aren't playing that well as a team, yes Boston couldn't miss yesterday, but they were getting some bullshit ass foul calls and that only resulted in Blazer fans having a foul taste in their mouths afterwards.

On a side note, I liked it when LA got feisty, thats how he needs to play all of the time, check out the quote in this article here. He says he made a bad shot and that he needed to play team ball, but sometimes I want him to go at guys, take over a game for a stretch, and not with jump shots, I want to see more hard dunks, solid post moves, I mean this kid has the skills, so USE them please.

Needless to say the Blazers are reeling but I'm okay with that, take the bumps, take the knocks, learn from them and get better, it's called playing in the NBA, and what doesn't kill them, will only make them stronger.