looks like the Lakers will lose after being up a bundle.... I'm just gonna go ahead and say it, the officiating is terrible. How they didn't call a foul on Kobe on that drive to tie the game is freakin ridiculous. Just ridiculous ...
Lakers actually have a shot now if the Kings missing foul shots ... down 2 with 4 seconds left... stupid officials .... i just need to say that again
S-M-U-S-H-Y!!!!!!!!!!!!! Hell yeah! We damn well deserve this overtime, after being screwed by officiating.
I can see being mad about the no-call on Kobe (even though there wasn't that much contact), but the dead ball foul was warranted. Its part of the rules, and Kobe clearly held him before the ball was inbounded. BTW anyone else notice how big of a Laker homer chuck was tonight?
<div class="quote_poster">XSV Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">I can see being mad about the no-call on Kobe (even though there wasn't that much contact), but the dead ball foul was warranted. Its part of the rules, and Kobe clearly held him before the ball was inbounded. BTW anyone else notice how big of a Laker homer chuck was tonight?</div> there wasn't that much contact? are you serious? but yeah, that dead ball foul was warranted.. I didn't complain about that..
Well there was a bit of contact on his non-shooting arm, so I could see why a ref would be hesitant to call it to decide the outcome. However, considering how many fouls they had called prior, I can see why you can be mad about that no-call. edit: Bibby=clutch
Lakers need to FINISH. So many time they let these big leads go to crap at the end. They must be the masters of this, and throughout history this isn't rare. I'm glad the Lakers stayed in it and got the W due to lousy and doofus D on the Kings part, but Lakers need to finish games. Making my heart work a little too hard hehe.
WHAT A GAME? No let me see if I was the only one that felt this way. When the lakers were down by 2 with 4 seconds left and smush caught the pass cutting to the goal, didn't at first when you saw Kobe make the pass to smush you get really excited, but then got really scared cause you expected Smush to miss it? Thats exactly how I felt. But it made it so much sweeter when it rolled in. Great win! We needed this one.
worst game ever, this was unbearable, we played horrific defense i remember at one point, we let someone walk right through without even trying to stop him and those jumpshots by rahim killed us the kings got really pumped after those, kobe had a big number night but played bad defence, bynum dissappeared, turiaf really isnt very good at all, sasha needs to be released, even more so than mckie, he sucks so much, at one point i was shouting at him through the screen, we were lucky to win this one, and it proved again how young, immature and unexperienced we are.
<div class="quote_poster">TopLake Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">It was good that Kobe trusted Smush for the game typing basket.</div> Not only that, but it was a GREAT look.
I'm sure a lot of us don't know whether to be REALLY happy we won the game, or REALLY disappointed we let it get to to OVERTIME to begin with. All I can say is, tonight showed me a lot. When Kobe made that pass to Smush and trusted him with the last shot, Kobe really showed me what he was made of. Not too mention the fantastic play Smush made. It's one thing to hit a jump shot, but to drive it in like that and finish it, Smush showed he can make that big play in crunch time. 42/10/9 (they didn't credit him the assist on the Smush play) That's a triple double. Kobe played an amazing game, almost flawless in my opinion. When the refs didn't blow the whistle on the play at the end for Kobe, I went nuts. Not too mention I got in a HUGE fight with my girl for watching the game on our 4 year anniversary, and the fact that I was screaming out the top of my lungs " CALL THE F@#*!N FOUL!!!!" like 5 times. Although we gave up the big lead, to win @ Arco is always nice. When Vlad made that unbelievable difficult 3-pointer, He gave us life. I think this was a big game for us, and instead of dwelling on us blowing the lead, I think we did a lot of maturing in this one game.
<div class="quote_poster">illmatic Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">I'm sure a lot of us don't know whether to be REALLY happy we won the game, or REALLY disappointed we let it get to to OVERTIME to begin with. All I can say is, tonight showed me a lot. When Kobe made that pass to Smush and trusted him with the last shot, Kobe really showed me what he was made of. Not too mention the fantastic play Smush made. It's one thing to hit a jump shot, but to drive it in like that and finish it, Smush showed he can make that big play in crunch time. 42/10/9 (they didn't credit him the assist on the Smush play) That's a triple double. Kobe played an amazing game, almost flawless in my opinion. When the refs didn't blow the whistle on the play at the end for Kobe, I went nuts. Not too mention I got in a HUGE fight with my girl for watching the game on our 4 year anniversary, and the fact that I was screaming out the top of my lungs " CALL THE F@#*!N FOUL!!!!" like 5 times. Although we gave up the big lead, to win @ Arco is always nice. When Vlad made that unbelievable difficult 3-pointer, He gave us life. I think this was a big game for us, and instead of dwelling on us blowing the lead, I think we did a lot of maturing in this one game.</div> The smush play WAS his 9th assists, it said so on the Game Recap article
