If you establish a single pivot foot, as Wade did, you then cannot move it. period. You learn that in kindergarten.
Lebron clearly tripped Stephenson on that play, what's so unreal about that call. Since when did tripping people on a screen not a foul? Please, don't even try to claim that there weren't bad calls against the Pacers as well in this game.
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I was not rooting for Pacers. I voted for Miami to win in 6 but Pacers team basketball is a lot of fun to watch.
If the outcome of games were rigged, then the Pacers would not have gotten past the Knicks, the Grizzlies would not have gotten past the Clippers, and the Spurs would not have swept the Lakers. "Rigging" is a far too extreme.
jgreen is just going to start his post with something about home cooking, and end his post with something about home cooking. It might even look like this: "home cooking...home cooking?"
Was being sarcastic bro. I don't think Crawford should be allowed to red anymore. He takes over games with his whistle and both teams suffer.
It's funny because he had a different conspiracy lined up if the Heat won. It's all attention whoring by people who are desperate to look smarter than they are.
The Pacers are 25th in total attendance amongst crappy teams despite being a perennial playoff team. Imagine how much worse they'd be if they weren't in the playoffs every year, let alone beating Miami 2 or 3 times in the ECF. Maybe the NBA wants to grow their fanbase by having them take the Heat to 6 or 7 games. Miami will win at least 2/3 next games. Miami will beat the Spurs in 6 games.
They probably don't try to rig the direction of a whole series to favor a particular team but I would bet they do officiate on a single game basis dependent on the Vegas lines from game to game..first half, whole game over/under, point spreads, etc.
Lol seriously? That was a clear flop, just because someone doesn't make a facial expression doesn't mean it's not a flop, lol. Not really. There were horrible calls going against both teams tonight. I didn't see the travel on the replay, at least I didn't see anything out of the ordinary. Just looked like a standard step back, he just stepped wayyy back. Harden does a similar move all the time. Both of them need to get fined, but they won't smh. That wasn't a hop step, it was a step back. I didn't see anything there but maybe I missed something, idk. Anyway, horrible officiating aside, the difference in this game was Hibbert's series of offensive rebounds. Really turned the tide in Indiana's favor. Bosh really needs to learn how to box out, lol.
Despite the bad calls both ways, this game was decided with the Pacers, mainly Hibbert getting 2nd chance opportunities on the offensive glass with easy put backs. I really like Hibbert as a player and as a person, he's a classy guy. If pacertom weren't so annoying I'd probably be pulling for the pacers to win this, but I gotta go with the Heat. I voted Heat in 6. I figured they would get lazy and lose a couple of games & I didn't realize Wade would play this poorly. Either way I'm pulling for the Spurs. Those guys deserve at least 1 more ring and I love me some Tmac!
That's the thing. Harden does this move all the time as do many NBA players. It is a step back, but it's similar to a hop step because you get a dribble and a hop or step back and at that point you must shoot or pass or else it's a travel. When Harden does the step back he usually shoots. If you tell me Wade waited too long to pass and that's why it was called a travel then I'd be ok with that explanation but if you tell me it's a travel simply because he hopped back then you are flat out wrong. That is not a travel if you pass or shoot after stepping back and from what I saw, Wade passed it in time to be considered all in one motion.
