First Half-Lakers Game 4

[Dameon Angell]

Anyone noticed some one sided officiating?

The Technical on Jackson was just an an obscene abuse of power
Campbell holding Shaq Under the basket, but Fisher got the points anyways
Payton battling with B. Wallace on a loose ball and Payton getting the foul? Is it illegal to grab the ball now?
And other dumb "touch" fouls. Its a physical sport, these touch fouls. "Oh no, his finger touched my shoulder." Stop being baby asses and play bitches.

Its getting very, very questionable.

[geekbot]

All I remember is a Shaq goal tending that everyone saw except the refs.

There were way too many touch fouls called at the end of the game though.

[Troll King]

I don't know about anyone else, but I don't think these finals have been exciting enough to warrant so many threads about them.

[Dameon Angell]

you live in canada, you don't count on this one.

[Battlecat]

The refs called it tight. That's it. It wasn't unfair.

There were a few technicals called, but for obvious reasons. Phil Jackson left the coaches box to argue a call.. that's illegal. Kobe was whistled bcause of something he said, which is also illegal (and something Pistons fans are used to seeing). And then the double technicals on Rasheed and Medvedenko for their little squirmish. Didn't seem unfair.

The end of the game was touchy, but they made the right calls. Just because LA fouled Detroit more doesn't mean the refs are unfair.

The goaltend was blatantly obvious, no way in hell Payton passed that ball.

[IceStorm]

another game ruined by the refs

[Troll King]

Did they practice today? Maybe we should start a thread about that too. We're still waiting for the thread about the second half report for Game 4, though, so it may have to wait.

[Jason]

So how about that football shit that's going down somewhere?

[Dameon Angell]

The refs called it tight. That's it. It wasn't unfair.

There were a few technicals called, but for obvious reasons. Phil Jackson left the coaches box to argue a call.. that's illegal. Kobe was whistled bcause of something he said, which is also illegal (and something Pistons fans are used to seeing). And then the double technicals on Rasheed and Medvedenko for their little squirmish. Didn't seem unfair.

The end of the game was touchy, but they made the right calls. Just because LA fouled Detroit more doesn't mean the refs are unfair.

The goaltend was blatantly obvious, no way in hell Payton passed that ball.

R. Wallace was mouthing off to the referee's something fierce, I mean he was like "that's fucking bullshit, fucking bullshit. what the fuck are you doing? that's mother fucking bullshit" after one foul against him. no technical? they were quick to draw the T on the Lakers over the Pistons, same with the fouls. One play had B. Wallace obviously holding Walton in some sort of bear hug to half nelson whatever, no call until 30 seconds later for an off the ball call, against the Lakers.

[Ezor]

R. Wallace was mouthing off to the referee's something fierce, I mean he was like "that's fucking bullshit, fucking bullshit. what the fuck are you doing? that's mother fucking bullshit" after one foul against him. no technical? they were quick to draw the T on the Lakers over the Pistons, same with the fouls. One play had B. Wallace obviously holding Walton in some sort of bear hug to half nelson whatever, no call until 30 seconds later for an off the ball call, against the Lakers.

Walton needed a hug anyway. He sucks, plus he sold his soul to the devil when he joined L.A. As for Rasheed, well, I guess the refs do to him like I do to annoying whiny elitists in TW. The words go in one ear and out the other. And the foul calls? Detroit doesn't do any of that pathetic reach-in/bitchslap shit that Derek Fisher is so fond of. They go for the ball cleanly, L.A. does not. Shaq throws 350 pounds of shoulder into someone to keep them away from the basket. He throws that same 350 pounds when HE'S going to the basket. You can argue that it's size and strength all you want, but when the defender's head and body snap back and they fall, that's beyond size and strength. That's a gorilla who's too stupid to play the sport, so he brutalizes the opponent. The refs finally realized that, and they're calling Shaq's techniques the way they should be called. Ask Shaq to take any shot outside of 8 feet, and he probably barely exceeds 30%. At least Kobe the Rapist can make something without hanging on the rim like a monkey from a tree.

Just my two cents. It doesn't matter anyway, the Lakers are done for. Great job, Pistons! :up:

[Jason]

If you're unwilling to give Shaq credit for being one hell of a basketball player, regardless of your disdain for the Lakers, you don't know shit about basketball.

[Dameon Angell]

shaq is the only reason we ever got into the playoffs to begin with.

[Ezor]

Shaq doesn't play basketball. Maybe they play that way in Congo, but this is the NBA and there's no place for an ape like him. Fuck, let's just get every team to draft a sumo wrestler and put them at center. They can use their weight to knock defenders into the seventh row and not get called for anything! :up:

Honestly though, Shaq is not a basketball player. His field goal percentage was tops in the NBA because all he does is sling his weight around to floor defenders, dunk and shoot three-foot faders, and he misses THOSE about half the time. And I have yet to witness a game in the postseason in which he's shot over 50 percent from the free-throw line. Granted I did miss a few, but let's take a look at his FT stats:

First Round - 13/44 [30%]
Conference Semis - 27/62 [44%]
Conference Finals - 42/93 [45%]
Finals - 21/39 [54%!! :eek:]

Final total? 103/238. 43%. No wonder teams are so quick to foul him. In fact, he was #1 in the NBA in free throw attempts during the regular season (676 total, over 13 attempts per 48 minutes of playing time).

LESSON ONE: A key element of basketball is, gasp, shooting. If you can't hit anything outside of four feet, you aren't a basketball player. Period.

LESSON TWO: Free throws. No one's defending you. You have an easy open shot. 43% in a wide-open situation is pathetic.

LESSON THREE: Fear does not make a defender's body snap back and cause them to fall to the floor. That's a result of PHYSICAL CONTACT. Or in this case, physical abuse. Someone get this guy a straightjacket before he hospitalizes the entire opposition with those ape-like techniques.

EDIT: LESSON FOUR: Lakers are ez. :up:

[Dameon Angell]

the series has been a game of jungleball over basketball.

[triceratops]

Shaq doesn't play basketball. Maybe they play that way in Congo, but this is the NBA and there's no place for an ape like him. Fuck, let's just get every team to draft a sumo wrestler and put them at center. They can use their weight to knock defenders into the seventh row and not get called for anything! :up:

Honestly though, Shaq is not a basketball player. His field goal percentage was tops in the NBA because all he does is sling his weight around to floor defenders, dunk and shoot three-foot faders, and he misses THOSE about half the time. And I have yet to witness a game in the postseason in which he's shot over 50 percent from the free-throw line. Granted I did miss a few, but let's take a look at his FT stats:

First Round - 13/44 [30%]
Conference Semis - 27/62 [44%]
Conference Finals - 42/93 [45%]
Finals - 21/39 [54%!! :eek:]

Final total? 103/238. 43%. No wonder teams are so quick to foul him. In fact, he was #1 in the NBA in free throw attempts during the regular season (676 total, over 13 attempts per 48 minutes of playing time).

LESSON ONE: A key element of basketball is, gasp, shooting. If you can't hit anything outside of four feet, you aren't a basketball player. Period.

LESSON TWO: Free throws. No one's defending you. You have an easy open shot. 43% in a wide-open situation is pathetic.

LESSON THREE: Fear does not make a defender's body snap back and cause them to fall to the floor. That's a result of PHYSICAL CONTACT. Or in this case, physical abuse. Someone get this guy a straightjacket before he hospitalizes the entire opposition with those ape-like techniques.

EDIT: LESSON FOUR: Lakers are ez. :up:

You typed all that but failed to mention Shaq's the only Laker actually trying to win.