The Lakers are untouchable. No, literally untouchabke. You can't touch them without being called for a foul. Every time Shaq gets the ball, he either jabs his elbows into you or travels. If you even try to steal it from Shaq or if you try to block his shot, you are called for the foul. When the Lakers go for a steal, they are allowed to hit in the face or do whatever. No this isn't the WWF DC Kid, so they should call a foul when the lakers elbow people in the face during the last 20 seconds or when they tackle someone(Shaq after he was beat by Big Mac, which eventually got called for a jump ball.) Bill walton has sat there and said that half the fouls he saw were rediculous. Thats coming from a HOFer. I love to see when the Lakers are called for the same fouls like when they even attempt to steal it and they are called for reaching in. Then argue (like Bryan Shaw last night) and get T'd-up. However, all this has led me to come to these possible solutions: The NBA must want the Lakers to when badly. No, they can't fix games,but they can call fouls which can change the game. The NBA hired a bunch of Lakers fans as refs. This coould be possible. Most of the fouls are for the Lakers. Game 5 was the only time the Kings got the calls. Maybe there is nothing wrongwith the officiating(yeah right) and you think the NBA is doing a good job. Mark Cuban was right when he said the officiating would decide the games. The Nets have a chance unlike everyone seems to think. They would have easily won game 1 ifthe calls would have went 50/50 or even 40/60. Its kinda hard to win when the calls are going 20/80. Please speculate and tell me what you think about this situation.
A few words of advice: <B><I>DO NOT LISTEN TO BILL WALTON!</B></I> He's a complete idiot in my opinion whom needs to buy some freakin' hearing aids to help his hearing, so he can actually hear the stupid **** he says outloud to millions of people.
LOL! damn, those nba refs must be gods then. they can literally manipulate EVERYTHING. they must have seen that vlade divac would tip the ball out to robert horry after a miss by kobe (arguably a foul there) and a miss by shaq (again, arguably a foul there). and then they KNEW that robert would hit that shot. damn. and in game seven, they must have known that the kings would clank nearly half of their fts in an ot game. LOL! is there any way for anyone to stop these gods among men? these men who can manipulate the very face of the game by seeing into the future and determining all. or perhaps they instead use their incredible telekinetic powers to force laker makes and opponent misses. yeah, that's the ticket.
Bill Walton the greatest announcer in the history of basketball. His denture-impared speech and horse-like smile ranks among the top centers in the history of the NBA... His stupid comments are usually sarcastic, but sometimes he's serious and that gets scary for someone who's supposed to be a legit commentator.
The fact that Walton is usually sarcastic (i.e., insincere) in his comments probably bothers me more than anything else in his crappy announcing. I get the same vibe from him as I do from Marv Albert -- these guys don't like announcing (or perhaps even watching) basketball games. So, like anyone trapped in a boring job, they invest far more energy in joking around with their co-workers than they do in their actual work. Or maybe it's just that NBC assumes that its audience doesn't really care much about basketball ... so, even if the announcers know anything about the sport, they're encouraged to hide that fact. All I know is, when I listened to Chick Hearn call Lakers games when I lived in L.A., or watched Doug Collins when he was doing TNT games, I learned about how pro basketball is played. I don't learn anything from the circus clowns NBC hires, except that they'd rather be at a bar or restaurant joshing with each other than stuck at some stupid basketball game.
I think anyone who is seriously suggesting that there is a conspiracy, and that refs are being asked to make calls for certain teams needs to have their head examined. P.S. - the Nets didn't have a snowball's chance in hell.
