There were no-calls that hurt both teams. The Blazers shot 34 threes - Philly shot 5. There is the reason for the FT difference.
Philly attacks the rim and gets fouls. I would have just liked to have seen the same calls on the other end last night. It would have likely won Portland the game, bad defense and all.
Except for one thing. We haven't been winning games with any freakin defense ALL YEAR. So why should we hope to change now? We have been winning with offense, rebounding and Brandon Roy to close. Complaining about bad defense on this team is lame. The Blazers came out flat, missed a bunch of shots. Philly came out agressive, was hot from every spot on the floor. When Philly fouled and rarely got called for it, they kept it up. Why not? The Blazers made their big run - behind hot offense and rebounding - as they often do. They tried to close out the game as they usually do, by controlling the boards and getting the ball to Brandon. AI got the calls late and Brandon (and Outlaw and LaMarcus) didn't. Ballgame. You don't want to blame the officials, fine. But the script the Blazers were following is the same exact one that has won them a ton of games. One of the differences in this game was Leon Woods and his strange calls/no calls. Substitute most any other official and the Blazers run away with this game late.
They got just as many no-calls as we did. They just kept attacking the rim despite the no-calls and got some calls instead of settling for jumpers and shooting an absurd amount of three pointers.
I'm hardly a big fan of theirs and often listen to tunes rather then whatever local boobs are calling The League Pass games. You are aware that the Laker broadcasters are about as over the top :homer:s as any right? STOMP
Joel Myers yes...I cant stand him from day one Not Stu Lantz, he will point out when the Lakers get gift calls/no calls
Stu Lantz is equally as bad for his homer calls, especially on the Rudy/Ariza play by basically putting the onus on Rudy for putting himself in that position and it was part his fault. Mike and Mike are homers, no one would dispute that. Every team's broadcasters are homers.
Yeah I saw you guys talking about that before. What Stu was saying(and he has said this MANY times) is that Rudy put himself in a more vulnerable position by taking off on one leg rather than two. He wasnt saying Rudy did anything wrong, just that there is a tendencey to get injured more frequent when dunking off one leg rather than two. Im just gonna have to disagree on this cause I hate homer announcers and dont think Stu is at all when it comes to his opinions/what he sees on plays
The difference between now and "all freakin year" is just liked they mentioned in the 5th quarter last night... the refs are in playoff mode now, where they are gonna let a lot more go, and let the teams play. So following the same script now will result in less Success IMO. But I telling me complaining about Defense is lame.. I didnt complain.. I just pointed to it, as the reason we lost.. not because of Leon Wood.
We all need to pitch in and buy Javie and Wood a pair of Rape Whistles... http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/gadgets/the-ultimate-keychainrape-whistle-245687.php
Really? Seems to me they were shooting FTs in crunch time and OT while the Blazers were either getting fouled inside or hoisting up perimeter shots.
"It was all about how he fell, because he got the basketball" Stu Lantz The two foot takeoff argument he repeatedly made was more idiotic then homerism. A bigger player who crushes an airborne player from behind can send them horizontal no matter if they took off from 1 or 2 feet. Stu never once gave Ariza any blame at causing Rudy to crash despite the video replays clearly showing him bashing RF's head and then grabbing his wrist. At least Joel came around to acknowledge that Trevor hit RF's arm and said he went through Rudy to get the ball though no mention of Rudy's head violently snapping forward or the obvious reason why... they actually acted like the replays might overturn his ejection [video=youtube;kTQ5x392QpQ]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTQ5x392QpQ[/video] I don't hate many things, and homer announcers aren't one of them. But I've watched plenty of Laker games in forming the opinion that those two are as biased as any. We can agree to disagree, but I think you're laughably wrong on this one. STOMP
You are right that his feet were moving. Slightly to his right and backwards in very small steps. However, you can take a charge while moving your feet, it happens all the time in the NBA. I said it earlier in this thread, Derek Fisher takes most his charges while moving his feet.
Is this a block or a charge? His feet are still moving, and he is sliding to his left. I think the charge call was correct. Were you posting after this game about how the Hornets got jobbed because Derek Fisher's feet were not set and Chris Paul should have been sent to the free throw line to ice the game? If not, I don't see how you could feel that LMA didn't take a charge last night.
