for cleveland and king james! if u thought the rox game was bad, on man! iam watching the wizard game and nothing but phantom call after phantom call for cavs at the end to bring them from behind for a win on there homeccourt. unfugginbelievable! stern and his puppets are making sure james will be in the finals against kobe this year. book it! oh, and mike james b****! hes ballin with the wizards like back with the rox the first time around
lol i just got home a while ago, and only watched the last 3-4 mins of play and it was clear just from my limited watching that the refs werent going to let the cavs lose.
how can the league stay legit if unbiased fans watch a random game and can planely see refs rooting for one team and deciding a game? nba sucks and needs a new dictator to replace stern. i dont like either cavs or wizards but iam fuming over this crap
I just watched it and disagree with you. The only questionable call was Butler's foul on the James 3. Even that may have been correct. It was hard to see on TV but it looked like he touched his elbow. Other than that: The turnover by Jamison was legit. The charge by Butler was legit. The dumb fouls by Jamison were legit. It was much more a case of the Wizards sucking than any kind of fix.
Yeah it was so blatant... The Wizards were up by 7 with about 90 seconds left, then LBJ misses a three badly but gets a phantom shooting foul his way; the very next play, Jamison drives to the basket, is fouled, but gets called for an offensive foul; two possessions letter, when Mike James is about to drive to the basket and score, the refs call a defensive foul on Ben Wallace and forces the Wizards to reset their offense... It was ridiculous. I hate David Stern and his cronies And from today's game, the Cavs aren't nearly as good as their records appear.
The Jamison offensive foul call was a bad one, though I can see how the refs can make a mistake. The LBJ three? Come on!! It was pure BS. And you can't but help wonder why ALL the calls when the Cavs' way. Even when the foul on Ben Wallace HELPED the Cavs... Really, it was an awful game. You could see in Caron Butler's face that even he knew the game was fixed by the last minute.
There were some questionable calls mixed in with a blatant Lebron phantom 3 call. All calls went against the Wizards when they had a pretty decent lead with time running out. Flops and Lebron superstar treatment killed the Wiz.
Interesting that nobody is acknowledging any of the boneheaded play by the Wizards. At least some of those late fouls were legit. Most, if not all, of those late TOs were legit. The Wizards suck. Trust me, I wanted the Cavs to lose but it sounds more like you guys are fabricating some kind of "fix" because of what happened to Yao the other night than for any legitimate reason. I say no fix. If anything, there is possible favoritism toward LeBron but he's not the only superstar that gets that kind of treatment. Mostly, I think the Wizards were too stupid collectively to hold onto that 7 point lead. Nobody forced Jamison to throw it to Delonte West when they had the ball and the 7 point lead with little over a minute remaining. Nobody forced Butler to barrel into Wallace. Even if you think the charge was questionable, Butler had nowhere to go. I think the referees would call that a charge 9 out of 10 times.
Not just you guys man. There's a lot of complaining about refs on neutral basketball team forums out there.
I agree and I have been furious at refs on many occasions. I still don't think there was any kind of fix in the Wiz-Cavs game. The Wizards just stunk it up down the stretch and gave the game away.
What else would you expect from non-Cavs fans or anti-Cavs fans? Anti-Laker/anti-Kobe fans do the same thing. It's common. I don't deny there are "superstar" calls, but the Wizards played dumb and stopped hitting shots at the end. That's why they lost.
While we may hold different opinions, I don't think it's fair for you to say that most of us on this thread "fabricated some kind of 'fix'" to feel more balanced. I saw what I saw at tonight's game, and I am personally convinced that the officiating at the end of the game was collectively unfair, and it seems that many others agree with me. I respect many of your opinions BrooksBall, but I can't agree with you here.
Mr. Stern can continue letting the good times roll and the bleeding happen. NBA will still make money. There's no incentive for Stern & Co to fix things; that is, un-fix the games
The OP was talking about a fix and it seemed like almost everybody that posted before me agreed - or at least failed to disagree. When I said "you guys", I meant you guys that agree (or don't disagree) with the OP.
I just want to say that foul on Mike James' hand after the shot was a legit call. A_3PO that gets called every time, even though it probably shouldn't. As long as the refs cosistently call it one way, I don't mind. And they consistently call that contact on the hand after the shot.
Might not of been a fix but the officiating was pretty horrible to rile up so many fans from different forums. lol Cavs fan on the Lebron 3 "The refs bailed him out on that shot." "True, but they didn't put the ball in the basket for him... " "Man, I'm scouring message boards and people are hollering about the officiating... Talking about, "No wonder Cleveland is undefeated at home...etc...."
I actually agree with the OP that there was a "fix," it's your use of "fabricating" that I don't agree with. I figured out the fix was in tonight without associating it with the previous Rockets' game (I didn't get to watch that game), and to me it was plain and simple that the refs had the agenda of stealing the W for the Cavs. If you can somehow rewatch the last 2 min of the Cleveland game, I suggest that you do. While the popular opinion isn't always right, it is right most of the time.
