Jalen Green, Houston Rockets Blown Chances To Win Late Vs LA Clippers Despite Poor Officiating
Host Jackson Gatlin (@JTGatlin) reacts to and discusses the Houston Rockets heartbreaking 106-100 loss to the LA Clippers, delivered by James Harden with a dagger four-point play in the closing moments. Why the Rockets struggled offensively against the Clippers, too many blown chances late and young mistakes over the course of the game, officials completely one-sided in favor of the Clippers all night, stellar defense from Jabari Smith Jr. and Tari Eason, bench play saving the starters, keeping Houston in it and more.
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COMMENT: How did YOU feel about the officiating in Rockets-Clippers? 🤬
Rockets got robbed throughout the whole game by the refs and not just the last 2 minutes.
Posted a couple days ago how atrocious the refs were. Sometimes the refs call the games hard on both sides but this was ridiculously slanted reffing.
The refs sold the game, no other way to explain it
Other than the mess in the dyeing minutes of the game that Jalen caused, I would never criticize any player because of the demoralizing effect of very very bad officiating. The players are no magicians. You cannot expect them to be winning this game despite the disgraceful referees. Do you think the referees would allow to let Rockets win this game even if they did not mess up in the last 2 minutes. No way. The referees had one thing in their minds from the start: LAC will win this game.
The refs messed this game up frfr but it’s ok we can still against the Lakers and Warriors on this away trip
Lots of mistakes Fred shouldn't have passed the ball to Jalen on that semi brake situation, he should've kept it and milked the clock. We were winning at that point. Also on that missed foul on K. Leonard on Green, Vleet passed the ball to Jalen then ran over to his area. Terrible spacing by Fred. Missed free throws all around etc etc AND YES THE REFS WERE NOT GONNA LET LA LOSE THAT GAME. It's Sunday so we play the Fakers in a few hours. Let's get back to winning
There were some bad turnovers and miscues at the the end of the game, but the officiating was horrible throughout the entire game. #RWBIAD
Seems like league wide the officiating has been pretty abysmal. Even enough for coaches and other stars to be like seriously wtf is going on here? This game was rake city, at least a half dozen rakes across the hands, wrists, forearms with no intent to hit the ball yet it's a no call. I am curious are there a lot of ref training in the league during live games? They seem to be calling a lot of ticky tack fouls "usually uncalled" yet the blatant ones are just completely glossed over like the rakes.
Can fans file a petition to the NBA to have the officials be held accoutable for bad calls, bias calling or just no calls on blatant fouls? I think the "almighty god status" that refs have to do no wrong and not being held accountable is absurd. The fact that players, coaches and organizations are getting hit with fines for speaking truth on the lack of quality officiating is bull%^@$!
Y'all jinxed us!!
Tari Eason should have been out there on that last defensive posession, on James Harden. Tate on the PG.
Yeah greens drive to the basket at 3 clippers with the leaf was the wrong decision.
And Zubac got the better of Sengun a couple times at the end and took Sengun out of playing intelligently.
I remember the prediction. 🥲
My takeaways for this game.
Learning can be found in all aspects of the game no matter the result.
Every possession matters, no matter the score or the time.
Refs cannot be counted on, so play smart as though they don't exist or you won't get calls in your favor.
Make good shot selection and hit your free throws.
When you are up, use clock management and there is no reason to make hasty decisions.
Refs were rigged but it always is so I’m just gonna blame Tari making dumb pass and Jalen loosing handles for two plays when game was on the line.
The play you claim was D nails by Jabari is the same play that they got Tate sagging to take away the L hand drive and why he's out of position to contest. thing is if Tate's not there then Leonard is driving. My point? Tari wouldn't need Tate to sag and neither would be giving the same cushion. don't task Tari w/inbounding but he's clearly the better option currently.
By just looking at the highlights,last night I can clearly see the no call agenda against the HR. Atrocious officiating, I see the Rockets learn from this and mentally overcome this
Harden did what harden do
We beat the refs with the New Orleans game, but then again, that game wasn't quite as egregious as this game. Even fans from other teams know we got robbed, except Clippers, they feel that win was well deserved lmao. The league clear as day did not want the team of former MVPs to lose their 7th in a row. It's bad for business. Really sad.
I'm still pissed off about how the refs cheated the whole game but I also know Jalen Green was having a tough night. I now understand that in order for us to beat opposing teams/Refs we have to be a little better to where we make it extra harder for the refs to beat us
I believe It's the same officiating crew with pelicans and they are horrible
Refs were god awful but the turnovers killed us Jalen Green has to be better you can’t turn the ball over in the last few minutes of the game and yeah Fred probably should have not passed the ball to Jalen at that fast break.
However despite the refs and melting down near the end of the game. I’m encouraged by what we saw with the defense Jabari had his best defensive game and Tari despite that dumb pass at the end of the third was fantastic.
This shows once again the rockets are a good team and we will continue to get better