Now I get the picture why fans of Jazz, Kings, Blazer,Sun,Spurs etc all hate Laker fans, Look at these garbages they said: Exactly! Yao Ming is nothing more than a drama queen, like pierceD and fade --Vercetti Dude, get out. The guy was faking it like Paulina. He just wanted to catch his breath. He was on the ground crying and came back and hit a 17 foot jumper. -----tgf5
LA did have the Rams until 94, and no team to replace them doesnt create the texans/titans bitterness that we enjoy today. The Cowboys are America's team, and nobody in America bandwagons better than LA. It's funny how there has been no post-game replies in that thread.
anyway, we won game 1. and also LA is stronger than us,which is obviously, but we still hav the chance to win the series,dont we? we gotta be cool,hav the faith that those guys are real soldiers. not just LA got champions,houston is also a champion city,why couldnt we win?
With Yao being knocked on the floor and Shane's bloodshed all over his face without calls, they still complain about the refs. That's how moronic Lakers fans are.
Priceless moment yesterday - Beating LA, and shutting the fans up when they were chanting "Houston Sucks" (Now that's classless) Did you see their faces when they lost... Kobe win the game for us please, we rely on you . If you don't do it we won't know how to praise you.. Put that on Lakersground!!
My favorite was in the fourth when the ball obviously went off of Kobe's hand and he gave a huge, "WHAT!!!" and the reply clearly showed he touched it last, unfortunately those type of reactions shift the Refs calling in the next game. I do not however feel to great about the call on Odom stepping Out of Bounds... Whatever that was beautiful!
more from lakers ground.... "Post and Pivot" wrote - "1:30 or mark in the 4th. shane battier is holding kobe from behind cause kobe has a full step and a half on him. did the refs call that foul? NOPE> they waited until kobe got to the rack and got hit again to call it. do you think you could hold wade like that? NO. bron? NO. ya gotta love the nba . now why did i bring that up? because if battier did it that time, he probably did it a few more times for no calls." Another gem from the same poster "kobe gets a quick bogus foul at the 1:33 mark. battier goes to the ft line. people they made sure there was no come back. the lakers were playing serious defense. this is why the lakers have to get crazy leads on people. because when the refs kick in. we need a buffer. people dont want to talk about this. but its true. we need a bad ref, bias ref buffer. its a shame no other team needs that except for the lakers." IS THIS GUY SERIOUS?
I really hope Lakers fans weren't really complaining that Kobe wasn't getting enough calls in Game 1. That's just as bad as the Nate McMillan pretend sob-fest.
I think most fans have an unrealistic or biased views of calls for and against their team. I live in LA and in general I think LA fans have five times the normal unrealistic bias. They could be used to it because Magic Johnson got all those calls as well. But I will say that aside from that there are some fans on that board who are very respectful, and interested in talking basketball. They posted things about fans booing Yao Ming's return from the injury and how bad that was. While some blamed the refs, it seemed like most were willing to talk about what changes they needed to do in order to stop AB, and how much of a monster Yao was. I wasn't expecting much reading their forums, and I was pleasantly surprised.