[LA Daily News] Sloan, Jackson Crying Foul Over Officials

I nearly fell out of my chair laughing at the Jazz after game 2. I won't even attempt to paraphrase but Boozer and Sloan both addressed the media and pretty much admitted that they have gotten away with fouling people all season and can't understand why the refs are calling it now.

 

It's a really interesting series, since (in my opinion) these are the two worst-officiated teams in the League. The Jazz get away with so many fouls - and the Lakers tend to get calls when there isn't a foul. Home cookin' really makes a big difference in this series.

 

I'm waiting for a Utah Jazz fan to flop a death and be buried alive.

 

My question in all of this is WHY do the Jazz get away with fouling all year in the first place? It's clear that Sloan, a long time ago, realized that if they foul on EVERY possession, there is absolutely no way the refs call it each and every time. I would honestly love to see a game that lasts like 6 hours simply because the referees decide to grow a pair, and actually CALL the fouls that are being committed. As of now, the only real way of making the Jazz pay for their garbage style of basketball is to knock down your free throws at about a 90% clip. Right now, neither the Lakers nor the Rockets came even remotely close to that, and that's why there is no incentive for the Jazz to change. It also doesn't help that both teams (Rockets and Lakers) happen to be incredibly beat up, and had/have to deal with injuries to their main guy. If the Jazz somehow end up advancing to the Finals, and they end up playing the Celtics, I would be so scared. The Celtics can't even win in freaking Atlanta....how the HELL are they going to win in Utah? If that happens, I might quit watching basketball, because obviously there is no justice in the basketball world.

 

on the last play where AK got the dunk and 1 boozer pushed off on his roll knocking fisher right into gasol taking them both out of the play resulting in odom having to guard three people.

I hate the jazz and the way they just get away with everything I swear I hope they get whats coming to them real soon.

I dont care for the lakers but man I was hoping Fisher was going to make them pay had they won in regulation that dude was clutch.

 

LA shot more free throws through three games. Then in Game 4 Utah shot 45 (FORTY FIVE) free throws to LA's 25. That's like Karl Malone kicking you in the groin and getting the foul called against you for it.

 

That which is subsidized grows. The Jazz are the future of NBA basketball.

 

It's not like this is a new development. Utah's been doing this for most of Sloan's tenure. And Pat Riley's Knicks and Heat of the 90's did the same thing. NBA analysts euphamistically refer to it as "playing physical", but all these teams are really doing is fouling every possession.

If there's one thing we can take comfort in, it's that the Jazz have never won an NBA title employing these tactics and the Miami Heat were a playoff failure as well. And before anyone brings up the '06 championship squad, Riley coached that team very differently from the Zo/Hardaway era.

 

All those people who think the league is getting soft and wanting to go back to 80's - early 90's basketball should be big supporters of the Jazz.

 

You certainly don't need to remind a Rockets fan how Boozer gets away with all the pushing, elbowing and bodying he feels inclinded to do.

 

It's ok guys the NBA is rigged.. therefore lakers and spurs will both advance.. then the lakers will win that series... Mark my words.

 

The Lakers are the premier franchise in the NBA. I am sure Stern wants them in the finals.

 

I'd be ok with that......if every team was allowed to do what Utah does.

 

woudln't utah hate that? they are already doing that, and not getting calls, what happens when everybody doesn't get the calls. it'd be (dis)advantage for both teams.

 

Seriously?

please provide a link for it...I've gotta see this!!