my two cents..... **** those pieces of ****, they can all suck my ****ing **** and choke on my semen. yes, count 'em, that's 12 blowjobs in all. oh, and phil jackson too, i can't forget about the yoga master, he probably knows some creative **** to do with a penis....
I'm probably gonna get suspended from the board for that one, but i had to let it out...i didn't mean to offend anybody, that's just the default, non-constructive manner in which i vent frustration.
No, they suck because they "win" by shooting 27 free throws in the fourth quarter. Good rant, though... I'll just add one more: *
They shot 27 FT's in a game in a series each of the last two championships? How do we know they wouldn't have found a way to win w/o the FT's?
Because the Kings came close several times to building relatively big leads over the Lakers, only to be rescued by the calls. When Sac was up 92-90 with 3:00 left, Webber had that great hook shot... taken away by the Horry flop. With Sac up 94-93 with 1:50 left, Kobe goes inside and isn't touched by anyone... foul. With Sac down one with :12 seconds left, Kobe violently elbows Mike Bibby in the face... nothing. In fact, Bavetta makes the Kings use their last timeout while Bibby was still injured, so the Kings couldn't even draw up a final play. Also, considering Shaq in the fourth quarter had been scoring 3.0 ppg on 19% shooting before that game, odds are he would've been taken away as well had Divac not been taken out on BS calls. This argument is pointless, though. Even if you think LA wins that game without the officials, the fact is they didn't, and accordingly they didn't win four games in the series. There's your * Oh, and it's pretty obvious that this Laker team is nowhere in the neighborhood of how good they were a year ago.
Your complaining about a LAKER flop? LOL! Going on the assumption that this is true (I can't remember the play) were there any bad calls against LA, or was it perfectly called? IF this is true, then it's a case of a bad call---like it was against Pip that kept the Bulls out of the finals the season MJ left, like it was with Jalens after the buzzer shot to beat the rox this season. Bad calls happen... We've been down this road before, and most agree that Bibby had his arm around Kobe and the ref was already ignoring that foul and went on the ignore the foul it caused. It's was a no call, or a double foul. Thats a judgement call...and theres no fact in the world that will prove it other wise. Shaq was not (and still isn't to be completely honest) himself. He was injured, and had no explosiveness or lift in his jumping. That game, far from "Divacs being taken out by calls" (where's the sportsmanship now? ) was a coming out party for Shaq in that series and for the rest of the playoffs. We havn't seen the pre game 6 Shaq since. Again, the record book and history will remember them as winners. There will be a lone poster or two one on a website in the whole of the world wide internet wrestling with an * but in the end it will be no more important to the world than the drafting of Bryce Drew was to the Rockets and the trading for him was to the Bulls.
http://bbs.clutchcity.net/showthread.php?s=&threadid=35148 All I can say is, Dick Bavetta should have been gone after all that stuff listed in the above link. Maybe the bad officiating is just him.
Your complaining about a LAKER flop? LOL! IMO, the Lakers flop more than any team I've ever seen, including the Jazz. On the Jazz, at least you know it would be Stockton, Malone, or Russell... on the Lakers it's everyone. They all have that rare ability to look like they've been shot out of a cannon any time an opponent even brushes them. Going on the assumption that this is true (I can't remember the play) were there any bad calls against LA, or was it perfectly called? IF this is true, then it's a case of a bad call---like it was against Pip that kept the Bulls out of the finals the season MJ left, like it was with Jalens after the buzzer shot to beat the rox this season. Bad calls happen... Bad calls happen. 27 free throws in one quarter goes beyond the standard of random bad calls, though, at least in my book. We've been down this road before, and most agree that Bibby had his arm around Kobe and the ref was already ignoring that foul and went on the ignore the foul it caused. It's was a no call, or a double foul. Thats a judgement call...and theres no fact in the world that will prove it other wise. MOST? Where'd you get that from? Most Laker fans, sure... but I haven't seen many others who didn't think it was at least a personal on Kobe, if not a flagrant (hell, maybe a flagrant 2). Also, that tape proves it otherwise, if you would take off your rose colored glasses... Shaq was not (and still isn't to be completely honest) himself. He was injured, and had no explosiveness or lift in his jumping. That game, far from "Divacs being taken out by calls" (where's the sportsmanship now? ) was a coming out party for Shaq in that series and for the rest of the playoffs. We havn't seen the pre game 6 Shaq since. The difference in Shaq in the last two games was because the officials stopped calling the fouls they called in the first five games. In the first quarter of game 7, with one foul, Shaq ran over Vlade... nothing. New Jersey just sucks. If they would finally start calling Shaq for dislodging his man down low like they rightfully did in the first five games of the WCF, you'll see that Shaq come back. Again, the record book and history will remember them as winners. There will be a lone poster or two one on a website in the whole of the world wide internet wrestling with an * but in the end it will be no more important to the world than the drafting of Bryce Drew was to the Rockets and the trading for him was to the Bulls. Yep, and the record book and history will remember the Spurs as winners too. Don't give me the asterisk BS for them if you're going to discount it here because of the "record book".
Except those calls have never been made during his ten year career in the NBA. That means that the first 5 games of the WCF were an aberration...or...BADLY CALLED. Now if you want to expand your complaint to a decade of bad calls, go ahead. But it will only look more like the sour grapes you're already pouting over... I thought I did give the Spers credit...they were winners in a weird season.
It has been a decade of bad calls... Shaq wouldn't be the best big man in the game today if he weren't allowed to consistently dislodge his defenders in the low post. Call it sour grapes if you want, but I'm not nearly the only person with this complaint, and I doubt a Laker fan such as yourself is the master of objectivity here. Oh, and there's no mention of "weird season" in the record book. Don't tell me why I shouldn't call this championship asterisked or different if you're going to use that...
Okay, I bumped my opening rant back up to PG-13 for those of you who weren't satisfied with the G version.
His only way of scoring is to dislodge the defender and step over the FT line when in the act of shooting, right? You do realize that you're calling one of the all time greats a product of swallowed whistles, don't you? Thats totally, totally screwy. You're a piece of work. And right where it doesn't show 82 games played is where it screams weird to me...
