It's OK now to complain about the refs since the Lakers lost. K*be Bryant is lucky that his team isn't down 2-1.
I don't really care. What I do care about is that K*be Bryant should be down 2-1 yet had to have the refs miss an obvious call in order to let his team have a chance to win.
We are all involved in the integrity of the NBA as fans of a team in the league. Plus, I'm just having fun and killing time. Man, K*be Bryant with perhaps a tainted title? That's brutal for him.
Yea it is fucking sad when a team can't even get some calls at home. That block by Howard on Kobe near the end was so clean you could have eaten your breakfast off of it, yet the foul was called. Multiple bad calls on out of bounds calls. You know what? If you are going to take 30 seconds delaying the game and arguing with players over the call, and standing around with all 3 refs saying they don't know who it went off of, you can bother to take the time to look at a instant replay and make the right call instead of just winging it. Just my 2 cents.
bad calls both ways happen.. why is it tainted? Do you think Jordan has a tainted title? I remember a Howard Eisley shot being a good 4 feet out of his hand when a shot clock violation was called. Relying on the ref's is Bogus.. maybe if Orlando made at least 1 of their 5 FT's in a row they missed in game 2.. they wouldnt have to worry about that last second deal with Lee.
Dwight Howard got away with about 10 moving screens last night, a few where he decided to throw a forearm at Derek Fisher. Bad calls happened both ways last night, as well as every game.
Actually moving screens are the norm these days it seems. They just make it look like the guy is doing a half ass move to the hoop, but by the way, during that time he is acting like an offensive lineman in the nfl. The only moving screens they call now, are the ones where you slide to the side.
His weren't of the feigning a move to the basket variety, he would move into Fisher, and hip check him, hit him with a forearm, or slide in front of him. Norm or not, it was a foul, commited many times. Don't whine about officiating when bad calls are made on both sides.
See here is my problem with your statement. In every NBA game part of what a player has to figure out is how the refs are calling the game. There is a big difference between refs allowing moving screens (The refs have decided they are going to call the game a particular way in regards to screens, perimeter contact, post contact, etc.) Players can figure that out, and adjust their game to how the refs are calling the game. If you figure out that refs are not calling moving screens in certain situations or are allowing more physical contact, you got with it and play on the edge of getting a call the whole time. You know when they are going to make a call, because they call it that way all the time. Now that being said, it does not give the refs excuses for bad calls on straight up plays. Howards block of Kobe was a clean block. The blown out of bounds play are straight forward. No interpretation of the rules is necessary. Who did it touch last? It is that simple. Those, are bad blown calls in my book. Not the ones mentioned up above about moving screens, etc. Those calls require official interpretation is built into them.
Nice job by the Magic to get back into it. I love Pietrus' game -- exactly the type of thing we will hopefully get from Nicolas and even better in a few years. Hit the 3s, drive a little bit, defend. Those French guys can play.
Poor The Magic. So close to being up 3-1 but being down 1-3. T'willl be interesting to see if the refs give Orlando some love in order to extend the series. So many champions are made on a single shot or a questionable call, while the 2nd place team forgotten.
