the officiating is bad on both sides. odom got some bs fouls in the first half. the refs are calling his game too tight. the nba finals is where you let teams play.
Are you trying to imply that the Lakers have got the more favorable amount of calls in this game? Are you really? At worst, you can say it's been mediocre on both sides.
allen has to be smarter than that. if allen had 1 foul at that point i don't think anyone has a problem with that being called a foul. a cheap foul to be sure but he leaned in on kobe and ultimately caused an airball with the contact. maybe they could have bailed him out with a foul on davis but someone needed a foul.
**** the Celtics! Where is Garnett's yelling and screaming now? Why isn't he crawling on the floor against Fisher? :grin: :grin: :grin:
That's the way a lot of idiots around here roll... once the team they're rooting for starts to get blown out and gets some questionable calls.. it's automatically a blame on the refs for what the score really is or why the other team is winning. Pretty ****ing stupid.
No, I'm saying it's been awful officiating on both sides throughout. To the point where I don't really know what to take out of the game, going forward, because neither offense was allowed to get into a flow. These are two physical teams, and the only physicality allowed at all has been on the offensive glass, which of course works to LA's experience. Would like to see how Boston's halfcourt D could work without everything being called as a touch foul.
Superstar calls, phantom fouls, charges, flops, acting, hand checks, etc. all we see is more free throws and less game play. Star players are more important than team effort in todays NBA. It's not fun to watch. Something needs to be done, because the fans are getting tired of seeing the same acts over and over again. I want heart, and effort to win games not free throws and bad acting.
so which cavs role players didn't suck against the celtics? who cares if lebron can carry them and make it easy for them in the regular season against the 85% of the league that isn't elite, the playoffs are against the other 15% where occasionally you have to make your own plays (and the cavs don't have good regular season records against those teams). same reason the rockets couldn't get past the jazz or mavs no matter what tmac or yao did. jamison, mo williams, and shaq all sucked on offense and then got destroyed on defense (while lebron made pierce look like a scrub). that's 3 of the other 4 starters. do you know a lot of championship teams where 3 starters are just complete liabilities on both ends of the floor for an entire series? the question isn't why do they get knocked out, it's how in the world can they win 60+ with that roster. so what was your plan for lebron? make shaq faster or able to make a jump hook? made mo williams show up one day in the playoffs or not get torched by rondo? make antawn jamison not get abused by kg in the post or maybe shoot better than 42%? 27/9/7 and shutting down the best scorer on the other team should be good enough. lebron would probably love having a gasol 20/10/3 to team up with.
Good points. What I've taken from the game so far is that Kobe is getting easy looks, and if it stays that way then I don't see how Boston can win.
A big part of why Kobe is getting to the basket, though, is because the defender best suited to cover him (Allen) isn't being allowed to make any contact. Would like to see how Boston's halfcourt defense looks in a non-Joey Crawford game before I judge too much.
Are you really arguing that LeBron's supporting cast is that great? His best players are a PG that dissapeared in the postseason twice in a row and an old Shaq.
OK, I flipped the game back after I saw Boston was on a run... and I'm genuinely curious. How in the world can you call that technical on Rasheed (a big momentum changer) toward the end of the third, and then not call a T on Odom for that silly display right there?
