No excuse for not calling that hack at the end. LeBron may be this and that but at the end of the day a foul is a foul is a foul. Not matter at the start of the game...overtime...the last few seconds...
Typical NBA double standard, even with it comes to palming the ball and traveling there are plenty of times when calls should be more consistent. Once again, if you called a foul every time a foul was being committed each team would shoot at least 20 free throws a quarter. I feel like anyone who's watched basketball should at least understand this already. I think it's hilarious that the NBA can check replays to see if a shot was a 2 or a 3 pointer but they can't review plays at the same time to see if there was a foul or not. A foul is a foul right?
Draymond Green routinely screams and rages at the refs on almost every foul he commits, or when he doesn't personally get a call. If they called T's on him when they should have, he would of been ejected at least twice during the WCF's.
LeBron lowers his shoulder, bulldozes into the paint, knocks down guys like bowling pins - yeah there is complete lack of fouls.
^This. When ring-less King James went up against OKC in the Finals, he got away with murder. Murder. Because, well, the King with no ring? Now we're onto a new story. It's Golden State's time. That's the narrative. When asked why he didn't call one of the obvious across-the-arms hack of Andre Iggy on Bron, which happened right in front of him, Tony the Clown Brothers replied, "I didn't see it."
If you jump into player when driving to the basket, NO CALL. If you jump into a player when shooting a jump shot, FOUL CALL. Someone explain.
The Shaq syndrome. Shaq bulls his way to the basket. The defender either: 1. gets out of the way, or 2. gets knocked down and called for blocking foul, or 3. flops and get a charging foul, or 4. hacks and probably no call. If you are a defender, you choose the latter two options.
LMAO All based on the last 2 mins of regulation and last 2 mins of OT of LAST GAME? HAHAHAHAHA You sound like you have just started watching NBA in the last game
LeBroneous! LeBroneous on all counts . LBJ goes to the line plenty of times and gets his fair share of superstar calls. The Iggy foul in game 2 was bad, but I also recall Bron falling down despite clearly not being touched and yet he was rewarded w/ free throws for his lack of balance. He may not be going to the line as much as his younger years (although it's close), but he's also not playing 40+ mins a night anymore either.
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It's pretty terrible how many calls are botched in a sport where a single point can decide the outcome of a game on a regular basis. I think the easiest solution would just be to give the coaches challenges like they have in the NFL, but expand it beyond the NFL's stupidly-limiting system to include ANYTHING, including fouls. It's a laughable that it will slow down the game since the simplest out-of-bounds call right now is like a 10 minute timeout for both teams. I don't see what would force the league to do anything, though. If the sportswriters wanted to really do something useful, they should all band together and blast the NBA about this constantly until something happens.
Yeah, it's a bit like wrestling. The character storyline gets adjusted between games to try to tweak this and that. Harden does himself a disservice when he starts relying on the foul to get points, because people see it and they don't give it to him the next game. It shouldn't happen, but it's a dangerous road to tread making those constant drives to the basket that everybody knows are coming. Curry shoots a clean game of mostly threes. It's obvious from a league and refereeing standpoint that he's going the be the face and Harden's going to be the heel. And I'm not sure what Lebron is; kind of both, depending on the situation, it seems.
This is a myth that has been dispelled countless times this season. Harden is a 6'5 version of Lebron, very strong, can go through contact like Lebron and takes equal punishment.
Cleveland.com had a great photo with no editorial that appeared to mock Mozgov's foul: http://www.cleveland.com/budshaw/index.ssf/2015/06/cavaliers_timofey_mozgov_now_y.html Spoiler
Devil's advocate here, but verticality? In all the jump shooting examples most defenders aren't going straight up and down, even those the jump shooter is the one initiating contact. I still think the cheap jump shooting fouls are lame though. Used to be the bread and butter of T-Mac and Wade's games.
