[Highlight] Ime Udoka on the officiating tonight: “Most poorly officiated game I’ve seen in a long time. Two have no business being out there and the crew chief was acting star struck.”
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.
meh the refs were terrible but in both directions
So it was a poorly officiated game, like the man said.
the comment i replied to is acting like it wasnt both ways?
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)
Yes and calls were going against Denver when it counted (early in the game). Did you guys know the entire game counts? Fucking gobsmacked when I learned.
bad calls late are more impactful because you have less time to compensate for them
Unless the bad calls take you out of the game entirely or force you to play differently. There is no good time for bad calls.
I thought the play Sengun and Udoka got upset about and got techs for was a fine no-call
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
incoming pat spencer is the GOAT of % of income in fines debate
\(7m was his initial salary. He was extended which included a pay increase at the end of last season. He reportedly makes at “least \)10m a year” although his exact salary was not publicized. Probably closer to $11-12m per year
Taxes? Might be that 1%
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That female ref was terrible at the end of the game
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.
You mean the mob connected family that owned restaurants, fighting and casinos(famous for laundering money) is an asshole? How could he be mad about the crooked officials? I can’t believe he got to own a team. It pushed me away from watching the NBA quite a bit.
Your owner is cheap as shit bro. Actively fucked your team multiple times because he didn’t wanna pay up.
Bro grew that mob money
That ambassador to Italy money
That ask Trump for PPP loan money money
Legit piece of shit human.
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.
Sengoon is such a shit watch. Elbows constantly and flops like a bitch.
Hes such a bitch
How would that be relevant to calling out awful refereeing? If anything that’d be consistent with his opinion on awful referees because he thinks the team can get away with fouls because the referee’s don’t call many that they could.
that makes refereeing harder, don’t ya think?
So then why complain about it? If it’s so constant that you can build your entire game strategy around it, you should probably get over it.
If it’s so constant that you can build your entire game strategy around it, you should probably get over it.
Did you seriously write this lmao
ENTIRE game strategy you think lmao?
warriors fans: “how can i make this about me?”
damn lol
-$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
For a second I thought Jusuf Nurkić dropped triple double on the Rockets.
Yea, also confusing for me
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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?
The refs were bad, and made poor calls against both teams. The worst call of all was the 6th foul on Jokic, which clearly should have been on Murray.
The two calls on Amen (on THJ at the end of regulation and on Murray in OT) are both fouls according to the rulebook. Yes, they’re not often called, but if you decide to play ultra-physical defense then that’s the risk you’re taking, that you are called for most of the fouls you commit.
The Murray contact was incidental, the review wasn’t looking at that.
Joker just shouldn’t have gone for the slap on a Reed Shepherd layup up five with five fouls with 90 seconds left in a game.
You really watched that whole game and think the worst call of all was them not calling a separate body foul a split second before the obvious hack they did call? What?
That last foul on Jokic to take him out was a straight up gift to yall.
He full force wacked Reed across the arm on a layup lmao if your biggest complaint is “yeah it was a foul but someone else on our team sorta bumped him a split second before that!” you’re really grasping for straws
But spending this much time on it. Wiser coaches would say never leave it to the refs.
half our team is injured including 3 starters. And JOker and JV fouled out.
Did you read the dudes comment?
Jokic only fouled out for the last 1:24 you’re being dishonest as hell
So, you’re saying there’s plenty of time to stop the 6’8” and under Nuggets clutch offense?
they Literally had a chance to win in overtime against Denver without Jokic
You realize your comment looks way worse, when the Nuggets were 0-4 at home in clutch games???? By that logic with Jokic out the Rockets SHOULD have won especially in the clutch…….
Do you watch basketball? Like have you ever watched a single game to make a comment like that? That’s a huge amount of time to win a game, especially when they have no more bigs and only two starters available.
Wdym without Jokic? Thats in-genuine, Jokic fouled out with like a minute left and a five point lead. At the point it shouldn’t be expected for rockets to comeback and win even if Jokic is out
1:23 left and two free throws to cut the score to 3
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
You mean Scott “The Fix is In” Foster
Scott “draft kings ” foster aka Chris Paul’s daddy
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.
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.
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.
I’m certain the play wasn’t to give Sengun a shot there
Show him the video
Send da video
Hell nawl can’t do this
You got da money wats da Hol up
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
Apli sold on that one. It was supposed to be a cross to shed defenders, but Alpi decided to chuck
I mean he waits another second and there is a great chance they foul him and make him shoot 2 FTs with 5 seconds left, now even if he makes both they are still down 1 and Denver has the ball. And at that point its tough to win that game
Regardless of what the play was supposed to be, the execution was terrible. Everyone on the floor should be doing something to make the Nuggets think defensively, and they should be doing it with enough conviction to make them actually believe they are gonna be part of the play. Even if you know the ball ain’t coming to you, you should be selling out and not just ball watching.
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.
Fred shouldn’t count since he’s out the entire year. That’s like if the Celtics were legitimate contenders this year but you put an asterisk on every loss cuz they don’t have Tatum. You just put an asterisk on the whole season.
Don’t forget Valencunias fouling out, then Jokic fouling out during the most critical part of overtime…
Players get injured. Next man up doesn’t mean they’re a zero. Do you think if all of those players were out for the season the nuggets wouldn’t be a good team? “___ was missing ___ “ asterisk talk is really annoying this year on /r/nba
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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.
Did you see him get a tech earlier for missed calls? He is talking about the whole game.
Super soft call
“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
If this quote is true. He seems to be able to dish but not take very well.
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.
Classic Ime lol
Lol. So star struck that Jokic fouled out, which he rarely does.
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?
Hope he enjoys signing checks to the NBA.
This coming from the guy that encourages his team to hurt opposing players. Loser ass coach
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.
you clearly missed Zarba’s love affair with Rocky in the 4th.
Don’t you know Zach Zarba was actually the guy who climbed up to save Rocky in that famous picture of him hanging
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
”… and the crew chief was acting star-struck” is such a great line.
Ironically, I think Zarba is the best ref in the league.
https://www.reddit.com/r/nba/s/l8TucVHlZq
Alternate view of the foul. Also both Jokic and Jonas fouled out?
We can’t allow facts in here. That’s a ban.
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.
Obviously didn’t see last nights game of Suns Lakers
Sore loser
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.
Lots of crying for someone that openly said “they can’t call all the fouls”
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.
Driving the game into the ground so hard that more people are watching than ever in the century
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. 🤷🏿♂️
What happened in Boston?
they lost to detroit
Jokic fouled out, Jonas fouled out, Spencer had 5…… I don’t wanna fucking hear it Ime.
Some things were questionable on the Nuggets side of things, but Jokic got fouled out when Jamal had contact first so.
Nuggets had 28 fouls, the Rockets had 25…..
N. Jukic is houstons arch nemesis
He really picked up the slack after Joker fouled out
N. Jukic lol
He’s not wrong 90% of NBA refs are either gambling or disgracefully incompetent
He is correct, the refs didn’t know that touching the ball over the end line is a technical.
Was dogshit both ways Coach
Ime we’re on live
They literally spelled Jokic’s name wrong on the side highlights…
what unfair calls is he referring to. or hes just mad he lost. 27 FTs to 33 is pretty even officiating.
Especially when you subtract 2 for techs received yelling at the refs.
Last play was a Senguin heave with 2 guys on him that missed horribly.Why don’tyou talk about that.
Accountability is not in Ime’s book.
He’s delusional
did he say this about the warriors/rockets game on nov 26thwhen rockets were gifted a win?
There’s questionable calls every game this one included, but damn the Rockets were commiting tiky tak fouls way too often in the clutch.
That Amen foul when he had Murray trap at the half court line with 4 secs on the shot clock was the worst example.
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.
Good. Speak up. Fuck the refs. And fuck Adam Silver for never addressing this officiating abomination.
Doesn’t his team play hard physical defense? Which can be called fouls? Smh
And I oop
Not the Crew Chief :(
Zach Zarba, one of the best officials in the league, was hardly starstruck.
They spelled jokic wrong wow
Ime taking the fine. Love it.
The refs are known for being friendly towards Jokic you know LOL
If anyone has to be the victim of bad officiating I couldn’t think of any coach I’d rather see it happen to. I guess they can call all the fouls after all Ime.
They got an elite defensive game from KD and still lost to the nuggets downs two starters, I’d be heated too
What a bitch. Officiating was uneven, but both Denver centers fouled out so it wasn’t one sided. Blaming the refs for losing a road game in mid December. Just chill tf out for once and find a new intern to bang.
“Most poorly officiated game I’ve seen in a long time. Two have no business being out there and the crew chief was acting star struck. Look at me, I cheated on my famous fiancé to prove I couldn’t be star struck.”
Full quote
Crazy that Sengun got outplayed with that stat line…
N. Jukic? Wut?
Can someone PLEASE slap Adam Silver?
Ime really came out swinging lmaooo
Bruh lmao
Damn who’s this Jukic guy putting in work?
Natalie Sago is the worst ref in the NBA.
Great way to make every ref hate you and your team lol curious what he saw though
Jukic
This dude shouldn’t be a coach if
Who tf is Jukic
Who refs the referees?
FVV joined the Rockets just so he can teach Ime how to do a press conference
“N. Jukic”
Not a good idea to make enemies with some of the refs….coach.
Starstruck is diabolical.