Karla used eye-poking move on Sam. Seems like he got the foul-as-you-want card from NBA. He always slaps on your arms but rarely gets called a reaching foul. Problem with Twolves is KG is spending too much time outside. He is probably beaten up after the Kings series. Unless he can dominate that $$$hole Karla, Twolves have little chance.
Has there ever been a more pathetic player than Kandi? I mean, my goodness, what he's done on the court in this game is utterly dumbfounding.....blocking a shot through the basket? dribbling the ball out in the 3 pt arc? actually thinking he has some offensive skills? he's playing like he's high.
he has a jump hook that would be unstoppable in the East. I'd take him on the Rockets if he didn't ask for so much money.
shaq is treated like god by the refs. I dont understand how he can use all the power he wants to get a shot off, while if a regular player did that, they would get called for an offensive call. I hate the lakers.
he's like a tv show that has ran it's course and has gotten too long in the tooth....gotta make up new gimmicks so people will still care about him/it. like cousin oliver on the brady bunch
It's 10:30 and they are in the middle of the forth quarter.... I don't even have to watch the game to know what is going on. Minnesota - 29 personal fouls LA - 15 personal fouls Does anyone out there not know how this series is going to end despite how well Minnesota plays? Why don't they just skip the playoffs completely and... 1) hand LA the trophy 2) snap Nachbar in two 3) shatter Parker's jaw 4) knock Martin into a coma 5) give all the LA celebrities free blowjobs 6) force all of the Eastern Conference players to write one page essays on why they want to play professional basketball
To be fair, the Wolves are settling with jump shots and hacking Shaq like crazy. They are mainly a perimeter team.
The ref absolutely refused to call Madsen's intentional foul on Shaq. Is the ref just allowed to blatantly decide whether or not to apply the rules??
Wtf is going on in the game: Madsen was trying to do hack a shaq on oneal and the refs wouldnt call it. What the hell is going on. Are the refs not following the rules. The funny things is though, that the lakers wanted the fouled to be called to.
Shaq cannot be touched tonight. refs just blow the wistle every time he catchs the ball and send him to FT line.
in a sense... that helps minnesota out. Minnesota 36 fouls and Lakers 19 fouls... 17 foul descrepancy. but keep in mind... there were AT LEAST 17 hack a shaq fouls. AT LEAST. Otherwise there were similar numbers of fouls on both sides.
It works? I don't think the Wolves were gaining any ground from it. In fact, the Wolves had momentum BEFORE they went to hack-a-Shaq. All their momentum was sapped once they slowed the game down. Obviously Shaq is a crappy FT shooter, but the times I have seen hack-a-Shaq employed, it really seems to screw up the flow of the Lakers opponents, whether or not Shaq makes his FTs.
What's up with these soft lay ups by the T-Wolves? There was one instance where KG got an offensive rebound, he was all alone under the basket, and he laid it up??? That was not an MVP move son.
They only started hacking him late in the game. Johnson and Kandi got into foul trouble way before that.
The Lakers had 43 free throws tonight to Minnesota's 14. Thats a difference of 29fts!!!! Granted they went to the hack a shaq late in the game , theres still no justification for that wide of a free throw discrepancy. This game really pissed me off, I turned this crap off midway in the 4th after the lakers had about 5 consecutive possesions where they went to the line. The nba has become a joke, its clear who they want to play in the nba finals-- and officiating this biased just ruins the game. Think about ANY other sport- NFL, MLB, etc. none of these leagues let the refs play such a large factor in determining the game, and no other league has such BS idiotic refs!! Wolves have a great chance to win game 4, but I'm not sure if Stern and his refs will allow it to happen.
