I went to sleep blaming Houston’s style of offense and Harden having no changeup, but then I watched that compilation of no calls. And I was speechless. We all know GS has the refs as the 6th man, but they got 4 all stars vs one...if they couldn’t find a way to lead on their own merits, they shouldn’t have gotten bailed out. Most of the no calls I saw in the vid were when Houston was close to pushing the lead to 20, Houston was finding ways to score without shooting every possesion and Klay was in foul trouble (which completely disappeared after the early 3rd)
There also has to be some attention given to how demoralizing it must be to be hacked every other possesion and get nothing for it. I think the 4 pt play that never was the point where harden basically shut it down for the night. And while that’s morally weak, I couldn’t imagine being in his shoes. Any brehs that watched the game 6 in 02 tell me if there’s any parallels between that and this game