Lakers lost today, very good stuff.
Doubt NO will take the series but a great start nonetheless.
Lakers lost today, very good stuff.
Doubt NO will take the series but a great start nonetheless.
Just a flat out terrible call on the Melo Offensive Foul. You can not make a call like that. Dumbfounded. And the NBA wonders why people say it's "fixed"?
Not impressed with the Spurs showing in Game 1, handing a team that had never won a game in the playoffs a road win against the #1 seed. If they can't win without one of their Big Three, they won't get far in these playoffs.
"I came here to kick ass and chew bubble gum... and I'm all out of bubble gum."
- - Rowdy Roddy Piper
"It takes a big man to admit when he is wrong. I am not a big man"
- - Fletch
That offensive goaltending that wasn't called on OKC was horrible too.
"I know a lot about the law and various other lawyerings."
Hitters who avoid outs are the funnest.
I don't think so. Celtics v. Heat is the matchup of choice. But I don't think it was fixed ... it was just a bad call.
It was compounded by the fact that Toney Douglas was obliterated by KG with an illegal pick that left Ray Allen open for the game winning basket and there was no call.
But the Knicks let that one get away on their own dumb mistakes as well.
"The players make the manager, it's never the other way." - Sparky Anderson
There may be no crying in baseball; but basketball certainly makes up for it.
"I came here to kick ass and chew bubble gum... and I'm all out of bubble gum."
- - Rowdy Roddy Piper
"It takes a big man to admit when he is wrong. I am not a big man"
- - Fletch
I'm not so sure about that. It seems to me that every sport would love a NYC team in their finals - even over a storied team like the Celtics. I'm not saying that having the Celtics (or the Heat) advance to the finals would be a bad thing for the NBA but having the New York Knicks there would be quite a story.
I'm not sure why the NBA would even bother helping the Celtics out. They are going to shoot themselves in the foot even before they get to the Finals.
"The players make the manager, it's never the other way." - Sparky Anderson
The Melo foul call basically handed the Celtics the win. What a terrible call.
The Mavericks go to the line 19 times in the 4th Quarter to the Blazers 2. The favored teams/home teams had a ton more free throw attempts than the road team. Nate McMillan isn't a coach that ever complains about the officiating, but he had no choice but to say after the game, "I don't know what to say". "My players had no idea how to play the game because of it not being consistent on both ends of the floor." That was pretty much a prevailing theme around the league for the Game 1's.
That said, Nate McMillan lost that game by playing Brandon Roy for all but one second of the 4th Quarter, leaving their best defender (at Guard) and best three-point shooter on the bench the whole quarter in Matthews, while also leaving on the bench the entire 4th Quarter, Marcus Camby, who had 18 Rebounds.
Last edited by Kingspoint; 04-18-2011 at 08:56 PM.
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