NBA Playoffs

[Cannon Shell]

Originally Posted by dalakhani

Are you blind? Good eye for horses, what happens with the roundball?

One blog's take:

James and the Cleveland Cavaliers even were saved by the referees at the end of regulation. With just seconds left in the fourth quarter James drove to his right. The stop-action video allows the viewer to see James two steps above the top of the key, dribbling with his right hand. With his left hand James attempts a stiff-arm of Michael Pietrus to clear him to his left as he begins to plant and go right with his dribble. But the stiff-arm attempt fails. James begins a dash to the right side of the lane but picks up his dribble a step before the foul line. He takes the ball, raises it with both hands and shoves his left elbow into Michael Pietrus’ chin. Pietrus grimaces as he is falling backwards. Two frames later James thinks he has planted with his left foot but in fact catches his left toe on the court and falls forward into Pietrus. James falls first. As his body is parallel with the court, there is no contact between Pietrus’ body and James’. LeBron loses the ball out of bounds. But even as the ball tumbles away James has already turned toward the official to complain.

The only contact made on the play was initiated by James and his elbow knocking Pietrus backward. Other than that, nothing of Michael Pietrus’ body touches LeBron James. NBA referees receive around $300,000 to differentiate between split-second acts like these. But in that moment it was judged that Pietrus somehow fouled the already falling James.

LeBron converted both foul shots to tie the game at 100 apiece.

One-half second of playing time later Anderson Varejao was riding up under a leaping Dwight Howard to ensure he did not receive an inbounds and lay the ball in all in one motion.

No foul was called and the game went to overtime.

I read a blog today that is convinced the North Korea will launch a nuclear attack on South korea this December. i must have missed the above post there.

If you wrote a blog you could say the same thing and also be wrong.

[dalakhani]

Originally Posted by Cannon Shell

I read a blog today that is convinced the North Korea will launch a nuclear attack on South korea this December. i must have missed the above post there.

If you wrote a blog you could say the same thing and also be wrong.

The blog isnt supposed to prove im "right". It simply stated my position better than i could. Its just interesting that there is so much written and said about a call that you say was so obvious. I did a search and there are like a zillion hits on how bogus the call was. Does it make me right? no. There is no right or wrong. Official makes the call and it is what it is. But obvious? Thats just a dumb statement especially when two other on court officials didnt even make a move to blow the whistle.

[Cannon Shell]

Originally Posted by dalakhani

The blog isnt supposed to prove im "right". It simply stated my position better than i could. Its just interesting that there is so much written and said about a call that you say was so obvious. I did a search and there are like a zillion hits on how bogus the call was. Does it make me right? no. There is no right or wrong. Official makes the call and it is what it is. But obvious? Thats just a dumb statement especially when two other on court officials didnt even make a move to blow the whistle.

So much was written? Where on Orlandomagicfan.com? The call was obvious. There was no hesitation by the ref who had a perfect view of the play. Did that ref not have a perfect angle? Was he the only one in on the Lebron James conspiracy? James was already 75% by him in frame 118. in frame 119 the guys leg is between james. In frame 120 he is falling down. why is this hard to see?

[dalakhani]

Originally Posted by Cannon Shell

So much was written? Where on Orlandomagicfan.com? The call was obvious. There was no hesitation by the ref who had a perfect view of the play. Did that ref not have a perfect angle? Was he the only one in on the Lebron James conspiracy? James was already 75% by him in frame 118. in frame 119 the guys leg is between james. In frame 120 he is falling down. why is this hard to see?

Uh...because the guy underneath the basket had the angle on what was going on with the body considering it was a block. Uh...because the call was made in the paint and the underneath official has just as much responsibility to make that call and he saw the whole thing and didnt pick up his whistle.

Lebron gets calls and there isnt another player in the nba besides kobe that could get that call in a playoff game with .5 seconds left on the road. Denying this is foolish.

[Cannon Shell]

Originally Posted by dalakhani

Uh...because the guy underneath the basket had the angle on what was going on with the body considering it was a block. Uh...because the call was made in the paint and the underneath official has just as much responsibility to make that call and he saw the whole thing and didnt pick up his whistle.

Lebron gets calls and there isnt another player in the nba besides kobe that could get that call in a playoff game with .5 seconds left on the road. Denying this is foolish.

There was no "underneath" ref. He was down in the corner on the other side of the court with a player in between him and the play. the ref who had the call absolutely had the call. It is idiotic to even suggest that it wasnt his call. You posted the video. Look at it and look where the refs were. Debating the call is one thing but saying that the wrong ref or an out of position ref made the call is not even debatable based on the video evidence.


Henry Abbott is about as respected an NBA blogger as there is.

His take http://myespn.go.com/blogs/truehoop/...rs-Game-4.html

To many, the game was marred by the referees. But watching the video, the referees got the big crunch time calls right, even though in real time many such calls looked bad. The exception? A travel call that went against the Magic.
In the closing minutes of the fourth quarter, Hedo Turkoglu was called for a travel. Slow motion instant replay reveals Turkoglu gathered his dribble as he stepped onto his left foot. He then stepped onto his right foot, launched, and shot. Not a travel. (Well it could be, by the rulebook, depending exactly when he gathered the ball, but not the way NBA referees are instructed to call it, and you see it dozens of times a game.)
The call that appeared the weakest was at the end of regulation. His team down two, James drove the lane, fell down, and Mickael Pietrus was called for a foul. It seemed like the classic case of a superstar bailout call, and didn't we all get a little sick at the thought that such a big game would be decided in such a manner. Looking at the replay, though, it's undeniable that James fell because Pietrus's foot tangled with James'. It might not get called that way every time, but it was a trip.

[dalakhani]

Originally Posted by Cannon Shell

There was no "underneath" ref. He was down in the corner on the other side of the court with a player in between him and the play. the ref who had the call absolutely had the call. It is idiotic to even suggest that it wasnt his call. You posted the video. Look at it and look where the refs were. Debating the call is one thing but saying that the wrong ref or an out of position ref made the call is not even debatable based on the video evidence.


Henry Abbott is about as respected an NBA blogger as there is.

His take http://myespn.go.com/blogs/truehoop/...rs-Game-4.html

To many, the game was marred by the referees. But watching the video, the referees got the big crunch time calls right, even though in real time many such calls looked bad. The exception? A travel call that went against the Magic.
In the closing minutes of the fourth quarter, Hedo Turkoglu was called for a travel. Slow motion instant replay reveals Turkoglu gathered his dribble as he stepped onto his left foot. He then stepped onto his right foot, launched, and shot. Not a travel. (Well it could be, by the rulebook, depending exactly when he gathered the ball, but not the way NBA referees are instructed to call it, and you see it dozens of times a game.)
The call that appeared the weakest was at the end of regulation. His team down two, James drove the lane, fell down, and Mickael Pietrus was called for a foul. It seemed like the classic case of a superstar bailout call, and didn't we all get a little sick at the thought that such a big game would be decided in such a manner. Looking at the replay, though, it's undeniable that James fell because Pietrus's foot tangled with James'. It might not get called that way every time, but it was a trip.

So...let me get this right...Your blogger is better than my blogger????

LOL This is hilarious!

[SniperSB23]

Originally Posted by dalakhani

So...let me get this right...Your blogger is better than my blogger????

LOL This is hilarious!

Stop reading blogs and typing and watch the freakin game. This is a disgrace.

[Cannon Shell]

Originally Posted by dalakhani

So...let me get this right...Your blogger is better than my blogger????

LOL This is hilarious!

At least my blogger gets paid for his and I did provide a name and link. You said that there were all these posts all over talking about bad calls. I provided one which stated the complete opposite.