Robert Horry doing his job again 3PG 3-4 FT 2-2 can we get him back? i m sure he is going to bring us a chamionship seriously, we need role players who can shoot
when i get to heaven, the first thing i'm asking God is why teams who are up 3, without fail and without exception, always give up an open 3 to the other team. always. no matter what. san antonio was practically handing them the game when ginobili drove. they were up 3 and SA had no timeouts. you give up a layup and SA has to foul, then go the length of the court with no TO's to tie or win. but hey, that's a little too easy. why not give up an open 3 to a great 3 point shooter? i mean, if you're bibby, why stick like glue to barry. instead, stare at ginobili driving, then take a step toward him (even though you're 15 feet away and can't affect the play), get yourself picked, and blow the game for your team. all while shooting bricks all night and committing a bunch of turnovers. clutch playoff performer indeed. and you could tell as soon as that 3 bounced out that it would just bounce right back in. they're the spurs, everything always works out for them. i'm kinda glad it did just so bibby has to live with it for being such a moron. and adelman for apparently not making it clear that they didn't wanna give up a 3.
lol at this picture, foul #5 was called on O'Neal as Cliff grabs his shoulder and pulls him into him: Not sure it was Violet Palmer on this call, or her equally inept crewmates. They did their best trying to make up for the criticism of the game 1 foul call.
i'm cheering for the pacers...but seriously, how can you complain about fouls when it is the main reason you guys won game 1?
This game should give SAR tons of confidence. He was scoring on TD at will. A nice guys will skills, never played with a winning team. Such a pity. He can prove himself in this series.
Duncan was playing the entire 4th with 5 fouls. Taking nothing away from SAR, he was nails, but that wasn't a full defensive effort being exerted - SAC was smart to exploit it.
I actually thought by the Tim Duncan standard of fouls with 5 fouls TD was all over SAR and was lucky they didn't blow the 6th foul on him....
the nba has its bad calls and bad officials, yes, but i think the worst thing about sports fans is that every time a team loses, it's the officials fault. EVERY TIME a close playoff game ends it was the referees fault that their team lost. it is very rare that the officials DECIDE the outcome of the game. i think that sacramento-lakers series a few games back had a game in there that was blatently set up by the refs, but if i remember correctly sactown lost in game 7 all on their own. its very hard to enjoy a game when people are pissing and moaning all the time about the referees. sometimes i think its justified, every once in a while we all do it. but every team apparantley has a conspiracy against them. you can feel wronged, fine, but dont hold a grudge and blame the refs for your team not being able to pull through. it just reaches a point where its time to shrug our shoulders and move on. players win and players lose and thats all it should be. the refs should always only be a minor factor in the outcome.
Lakers won...we got a series on our hands Kobe kills me when he doesn't give it up quickly enough and to the right player but they won none the less...
Miami is getting owned. Good. I hate them. Bulls are very promising... I wish there were a Dwight Howard prospect in this draft though so they can become elite. They don't have anybody exciting. And why does Gordon have such a big chest?
i think gordon can be exciting. when you start working out you'll noticed your chest gettin bigger too
The Bulls are a very promising young team. I can't remember the last time I watched a team this young be this resilient, determined, and be this fiesty throughout the entire 48 minutes of every game; they've taken on the personality of Scott Skiles. Two young teams look very good to me: The Bulls and the Magic. If they can keep their core, they have a promising future.
Because that's just not true. Game 1 had lots of questionable calls, and the very last one simply kept the game from going into overtime. Mind you, it did not change a NJ win into a Pacer win, or even reverse the outcome of a game in which NJ was in control. NJ was never in control. Many of the earlier questionable calls were touch fouls against Jermaine O'Neal, and game 2 was more of the same. The adjustment for game 3 was that Jermaine gave up the idea of pounding in the paint and instead faced up. He shot a lot more jumpers rather than fight for position in the lane and get called for everything. He had his midrange jumper going, so there was no chance for Collins and Cliff Robinson. Frankly I wish he didn't have to rely on the jump shot so much, but at least they weren't the fadeaways. He was freeing space by the dribble or by catching it on the move. An interesting series hidden away on NBA-TV.
My pick of the Pacers to defeat the Nets is looking good. All the Pacers need to do is win the next game at home and then the series is over.
what a shot by lebron. what a travel by lebron. he took his two steps, then picked up his pivot foot and moved it about a whole foot while powering up, then hung forever while making the amazing game winner. not that they ever call that stuff, but damn did he travel. and arenas gets a freakin' wide open 3 at the buzzer and it just barely missed.
One travel on Lebron, followed by an Arenas charge, followed by another Lebron travel... Disappointing.
i would say it was more like lebron drove and got his arm hacked while the ball got tipped which made him drop it, then he picked it up and layed it in. while he may have taken a 3rd step, i thought the replay definitely showed his arm get raked. and arenas' drive was a good call, imo. it was like the kobe dunk, lebron didn't get there fast enough to get the call. but horrible travel by lebron on the game winner.
Lebron didn't drop it the first time, he was tied up, he bobbled it, then he went right back up with it. I still think the Arenas play was a charge, if I were a ref I would give all out of control drives like that a charge, why did he drive anyway? He's a really good pull up shooter.
