And here I thought them missing 11 shots in a row in the fourth quarter of a tied game cost them. :O Denver shot 49 free throws last game, and have 8 more FTs for the entire series.
Missing the 11 shots is probably the main cause, but it still seemed like the refs were trying to give LA the game. They only won by 9 with Denver shooting a terrible percentage and the refs on their side. I think Denver will win at home and game 7 will be a great game to watch.
came down to bad calls that took them out of the game. those two last fouls on Nene were absolute bullshit. Its hard to make shots in the paint when you're getting hacked.
Nene got some tough calls that's true, so did Bynum, Fish, a couple of others. I saw Melo jumping into guys all day and JR loving Kobe's jersey (edit-sometimes, he did fine overall just saying). The FTs were pretty even.
Smith's defense was just good D for the most part. I will say that Melo just jumps in to guys and hopes for the foul, but honestly its good strategy if they are in the restricted area.. Gasol did a good job of avoiding the contact but still making a play for the ball.
Odoms dunk "and 1" on Anderson was clearly, without a doubt, an offensive foul. He completely moved him out of the way with his off arm. That was ridiculous.
Pau Gasol falls on Nene....foul on Nene. Nene posts up. offensive foul. just fucking ridiculous. now i remember why i stopped watching after the blazers got eliminated. fuck the NBA and their fixed ass games. Ron Garretson, eat a dick.
Hm yeah LA will need a good effort to beat them in Denver, they dominated us 49-35 on the FT line last time. Their homecourt is terrific you can't play around there, they're a good opponent.
The facts are if you are going to win a finals, the officiating is just one of the obstacles you have to deal with on your way there. You just have to play so hard that the even the ref's can't take it from you. The thing that bothers me the most about it though is that in the NFL and in baseball, you don't see this type of conversation, the reason being, this type of horseshit rarely happens. Secondly, in those leagues, you can't foul out of a game, so the ref calls have a much lesser effect on the game. If a guy picks up a couple of extra fouls in basketball, he isn't on the floor in possible critical minutes. In the NFL, you get a few yards tacked on. In baseball, it is merely safe, out or foul ball, or the rare corked bat.
Dahntay Jones trips Kobe on purpose, no one does Jack until after the game.. la-dee-frickin-da. Kobe gets hacked at the rim.. no call. Lebron gets breathed on- Foul. Its crappy for everyone its not one sided.
Why are so many calls getting rescinded and upgraded after the fact? This doesn't happen in the regular season, so why are the refs so inept at making judgment calls?
Did they take back the point it created that sent the game into overtime instead of Orlando winning in regulation? In a tight game like the ones in this series, giving a point away for that kind of bullshit is crooked no matter what after the fact bookkeeping is done. The NBA admitting the mistake after the fact changes almost nothing. In fact, it only makes it worse. It would have been a real kick in the balls if the Magic had lost that game.
It makes a fairly significant difference. With that technical, he was at 6 for the post-season. At 7, the player gets an automatic one-game suspension. So, prior to the rescinded technical foul, Howard was facing a suspension on his next loss of control. Now he has one loss of control to play with. Considering he has 5 other "non-mistake" technical fouls this post-season, that's probably pretty important for him.
Bill Simmons wrote maybe his finest column in years, regarding the NBA and their terrible officiating. It really is too bad that credible/non-humorist columnists can't write the same thing for The Network (tm), but politics are politics.
dwight's 6th tech was a legitimate tech. it only got rescinded because it was his 6th and they don't want him getting suspended for an important game due to techs. he scored and then turned to varejao who was on the ground, flexed, and apparently yelled "motherfucker". i mean sometimes similar things to that aren't called techs, but they very frequently are. there's video of the trip. it looks like a play that in my mind gets called a blocking foul more often than not. pietrus puts himself in lebron's way and lebron trips on his foot falling into pietrus. [video=youtube;1jBeG5S_NQQ]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jBeG5S_NQQ[/video] at 1:40 it shows dwight clearly fouling varejao on the lob pass before what could be considered a foul on varejao.
