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There are about 50 people at this house who are ready to kill a referee for not calling that obvious foul on LeBron at the end. Sad to see that happen.

Lol, My dad and I were going nuts too...but KD still should've made that! It was a five foot floater! Lol

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We could be in OT right now, having a great game. Total bullshit. NBA Refs blow.

How do you know? Durant might have missed, there was 7 seconds left for us to score.

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How do you know? Durant might have missed, there was 7 seconds left for us to score.

 

Or he could have made them, then Lebron could have turned it over, and then Westbrook could have t-baged on Bosh for the gamewinner. That's about just as likely as Durant missing free throws.

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OKC deserved to lose this game anyway. Dug themselves in a hole once again early on and missed key free throws.

 

I don't understand how people can still blame the refs for this loss, they've been bad all playoffs, for both teams, we just have to live with it at this point.

 

Scott Brooks made some terrible coaching decisions tonight. Left Perkins in way too long in the third and took Collison out early. I don't understand it. Nick should be playing more than Perk in this series because he's better off switches, especially when LeBron is playing the pick and roll game with Bosh.

 

And Spo finally coached a great game. The play set up for Bosh at the end was picture perfect.

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Instead of blaming the Thunder loss on the refs missing a call late, how about blaming the Thunder for digging themselves yet another double digit hole early? You can only rely on this hero comeback stuff so many times before your luck is going to run out.

 

Slow starts have definitely got to be an area of concern for the Thunder and something that Scott Brooks needs to address. They can't pull this kind of shit in Miami.

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Keep crying about the non-call on Durant. He should have fouled out about five times that game.

 

His defense is absolutely atrocious, and Shane Battier looks like Kobe out there with Durant on him.

 

To be fair to Durant, he basically couldn't play real defense after picking up his 5th foul because of the risk of fouling out. I agree he isn't a great defender but I wouldn't criticize him too much for his defensive effort in the 4th due to the fact that he was playing with 5 fouls for basically the entire quarter. At that point you are more worried about him staying on the floor than really digging in and being aggressive on defense.

 

But yeah, the Thunder having him on LeBron isn't exactly ideal. He simply can't guard him and if James is aggressive on offense, Durant will be in foul trouble a lot this series given his tendency to reach defensively.

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Durant was caught on a lot of switches with LeBron and Wade too. As soon as he picked up his 3rd, the Heat targeted him with LeBron a lot. But in the fourth, Miami basically stopped running an offense, much like the fourth quarter of game 1.

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I actually don't see anyone blaming the loss on the referees. Game would have been tied if Durant goes to the line and hits two frees.

 

The fact is, that call has to be made. It's not some mistaken charge/block that should have went the other way in the first quarter, or an illegal screen after the halftime show...it was on the game-winning attempt, and LeBron hooked one of Durant's arms, then came down and hit the other. AND THEN, he fouled Westbrook by grabbing his arm on the offensive rebound, which was even worse than the 5th foul on Durant, when he hit Haslem's hand on a board.

 

I'm not sitting here bringing up LeBron's four blatant travels and saying the Thunder lost the game because the referees are scared David Stern is going to fire them for calling one of them. I'm saying that the final shot of the game, three fouls within 2-3 seconds (two hits, one on each arm, and Westbrook being fouled by LeBron as well)...ONE has to be called. That doesn't mean the Thunder win the game...if anything, it means the Thunder tie it (at the most) with a few seconds left on the clock...and if the Thunder lose at that point (or if they miss one free throw), then I look back and say they lost because they went down 18-2 to start the game.

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You could cry about that no call at the end with Durant... But he shouldn't have even been in the game. Battier took that that charge like a man, no flop, and it was called a block.

i'm not sold that battier was there in time

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