Damn those lakers......

The last 10-15 minutes were the biggest load of BS I\'ve ever seen. It was constant fouling. Once someone got a foul 8 milliseconds after another foul ended. Total BS.
Oh well, Lakers win
:D:D:D:D

Just Horrible.

I really haven\'t been watching much of the series (Games are too late for my taste, meh), but I got to see last night\'s game, and I really wanted to throw up. I\'m sorry, but anyone who can get away with throwing violent elbows and having the opponent in the vacinity of the elbow throwing gets the Technical, and who can blatantly elbow somebody in the ****ing nose when the ref is lookign right at it, and have the foul called on the person on the recieving end of the blow, well, something\'s up. (Longest. Sentence. Ever.)

Kobe Bryant doesn\'t play the game the way it was meant to be played. He is making his claim as one of the more dirtier players of all time, up there with John Stockton and Karl Malone, just for his antics in this series ALONE.

Shaq...he throws his elbow right into somebody\'s chest, and the person on the recieving end gets called with the foul? The number of fouls called on people guarding Shaq to the total Fouls on Shaq himself? 20 to 4. 20 fouls to 4 fouls. That\'s a disgrace.

If There wasn\'t any officiating bias in last year\'s Eastern Conference Finals with the Bucks and Sixers, then there is blatant officiating bias here, and I\'m convinced there was officiating bias in that Sixers Bucks series.

I\'m sorry, but this is the most extreme case of officiating bull**** I have seen in quite some time. Bibby can get absolutely mauled by Fisher, lose the ball, and Kobe goes up for a layup, doesn\'t get touched, the foul is called on the 2 guys who are guarding, but not touching Kobe. It\'s just sad.

See Yuz.

Yeah, some calls last night were pretty debatible, but you have to admitt, this was a payback for what the refs did to Shaq up in Sacramento.

Shaq can get away with his elbow\'s cause of his footwork. As long as his feet aren\'t inside his defender, he\'s good. That\'s just natural talent. There isn\'t anyone in the league who can guard him, period. All they can do is foul (not to mention, he shot 13-17ft) and flop, nuff said.

Sometimes you gotta play dirty, the kings do w/ Webber. He\'s one the dirtest. And didn\'t you see the Kings starting to get into personal fights? You gotta accept playoff aggression, you can\'t be a puss when it comes to this. This is where they seperate the men from the boys. Cry if you will, but the ones who suck it up at the end are the ones who win.

It\'s wonderful seeing people cheer for the Kings cause they are such a hyped up team, that thinks they have some sort of swager or something. Wrong. They claim they are the better team in the series and that they can defeat the Lakers w/o trying much. Apparently, I guess they "forgot to read the paper or something" after LA won their second consecuative championship. You don\'t have the right to talk smack or act like you have a championship ego til you\'ve won it. Bulls were able to, cause they won six titles in the 90\'s. Having the best record in the league doesn\'t justify having championship swager. It wasn\'t like they had the best record ever, that\'d be the Bulls going 72-10.

Just my 2 cents

Originally posted by ROL Jamas


Kobe Bryant doesn\'t play the game the way it was meant to be played. He is making his claim as one of the more dirtier players of all time, up there with John Stockton and Karl Malone, just for his antics in this series ALONE.

Shaq...he throws his elbow right into somebody\'s chest, and the person on the recieving end gets called with the foul? The number of fouls called on people guarding Shaq to the total Fouls on Shaq himself? 20 to 4. 20 fouls to 4 fouls. That\'s a disgrace.

Kobe accidently throws 2 elbows and now hes one of the NBA\'s dirtiest players?

Did you see game five?  Shaq only drew one defensive foul on vlade pollard.  The referees are calling most of their terrible fouls in favor of the home team.

Oh my god. I would be getting flamed if I were to complain about the Kings officiating (or lack there of). Ok, the Lakers shot 25 free throws... THATS A FIRST IN THIS SERIES. Almost all the calls went to Sacramento in Game 5. Thats basketball, when your at home, you get your calls.

Stop crying. Bring on Game 7.

And yes Kobe did foul Bibby, but it could have been prevented if Bibby didn\'t "hook" Kobe.. He basically hooked his arm around Kobe\'s waist so Kobe couldn\'t break free.

Yes, that "footwork"...Bill Walton was pointing out how he would dribble, stop, then dribble again. They usually call that a traveling violation, but you know, whatever

See Yuz.

Waaah... God what a crybaby. :rolleyes:

Originally posted by \\/apor Snake


Stop crying. Bring on Game 7.

Oh I cant wait...:rolleyes: more bias referee calls...cant they be a little less obvious?

Cant they just let the players play?

Originally posted by Clowd


Kobe accidently throws 2 elbows and now hes one of the NBA\'s dirtiest players?

Yes. That\'s what I said, he\'s a dirty player. He\'s always been a dirty player, and he too has been known to cry about not getting his calls and whatnot. Shaq, too, does this, calling Sacramento\'s defense on him, and getting fouls called on Shaq "Chicken **** Fouls". The Kings aren\'t the only one\'s crying foul here.

See Yuz.

When the most powerful player in the NBA gets fouled only once, there is a problem.

Just got this from ESPN. I suggest all of the "crybabies" sit and read it, it\'s from one of the best basketball writers out there.

From someone who is simply grateful for such a stirring series, calls have gone both ways throughout the series, including those when a defender has stuck his mug in the chest of the offensive player. Defend anyone that close and you risk getting clocked. Exactly how close you are in the eyes of the official will determine whether it\'s an offensive foul, a blocking charge, or, in a last-second situation, a no-call, since the referees don\'t want a 50-50 play decided at the free-throw line.

Hell, even Chris Webber makes a great point.

"It\'s just the reality of the matter," said Webber. "I\'ve heard from some champions that to get to be a champion, you have to go through this."

Stop crying. Thats basketball. Sh:t happens. Time for Game 7.

Crap happens in the NBA.  I got NFL, NASCAR, CART, F-1, IRL,  plenty of sports where crap dont happen.

Originally posted by Clowd
Crap happens in the NBA.  I got NFL, NASCAR, CART, F-1, IRL,  plenty of sports where crap dont happen.

Guess you missed that yellow flag fiasco last weekend huh?
Guess you miss the intentional bumping in all most every NAStyCAR race.

Originally posted by ROL Jamas


Yes. That\'s what I said, he\'s a dirty player. He\'s always been a dirty player, and he too has been known to cry about not getting his calls and whatnot. Shaq, too, does this, calling Sacramento\'s defense on him, and getting fouls called on Shaq "Chicken **** Fouls". The Kings aren\'t the only one\'s crying foul here.

See Yuz.

Let me remind u Jordan was too a dirty player too, do not forget that play in the nba finals on bryon russell!!!

Originally posted by luckee


Guess you missed that yellow flag fiasco last weekend huh?
Guess you miss the intentional bumping in all most every NAStyCAR race.

The race at Indy sucked, but Paul was behind Helio when the yellow came out, unlike the NBA they can use replays and Helio, even though he dont deserve it IMO, Alex Zanardi even said Paul was the true winner (not because he was in front when it was green, but because he was in overtaking him when the caution came out)

Any bump that happen in NASCAR havent decided the winner, last time I remember it decided the winner was when Earnhardt spun out labonte at bristol a few years back.