Comments on: Powe, Celtics take a 2-0 lead; Lakers having referee issues

By: Commonsense

Commonsense — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 22:12:10 +0000

I don’t understand the crying about the ft disparity- the Lakers were a jump shooting team. You got to take it to the hoop to get calls. All Powe’s attempts were dunks or layups, of course he’ll have more ft’s than the Lakers who are standing around the 3 pt. line…

By: Dave

Dave — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 22:03:29 +0000

KDizzle…..I appreciate where you’re coming from but I promise you I would not be bitching about the officials, that’s one pet peeve I’ve always had as a player (D-1, even played in the big-dance), coach, and fan….it’s never the refs fault. Gee will vouch for me, we had this discussion when the Jazz lost to the Lakers and were out-freethrowed bad but I didn’t put it on the refs. Kobe’s earned the right to get some calls, the Jazz haven’t yet.

38-10 on free-throws is a giant disparity for sure, but the total number of fouls called was much closer than that. There are always bad calls in any game, but it’s poor when the head-coach leads the crying.

I may yell at the games or at the TV but I think it’s chickenshit to blame officials for a loss regardless of how bad it may have been.

By: rangerjohn

rangerjohn — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 20:34:04 +0000

k dizzle
all the laker haters are talkin smack about the lakers whinning because the lakers lovers (most anyway) spent all this time tlaking about how the other teams they beat where whinning. now the shoe is on the other foot.

jackson is one of the biggest “whinnin about the refs” coaches EVER! he is ALWAYS bitching about the refs.

free throw shooting was a pretty big deficit but the total fouls where not, THAT STAT shows the celtics where MUCH more agressive, the lakers got fouled but the fouls where outside fouls, if the lakers had attacked the basket maybe they could have gotten to the line.

also the lakers where out assisted by 11 assists, that is a huge number also, 31 assists to 20 assists, thats 20 assists on 41 of 83 baskets vs 31 assists on 36 of 68. that stat right there shows how well the celtics moved the ball and how pourly the lakers did.

as for both teams shooting around 50%, well sort of the lakers shot 49% (49.4) and the celtics shot 53% (52.9)
that is a pretty decisive difference.

the lakers scored 41 i nthe 4th but only 19 in the 3rd. gonna need more then 19 points to get it done. kobe took 1/4 of the shots, and odom and raddy combined for another 1/4.
here is a telling number, fisher, odom, and raddy combined to shoot 42%, kobe needs more help if he is going to get anything done.

celtics in 6

By: JCM

JCM — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 20:29:17 +0000

Lakers fans complaining about Kobe getting in foul trouble, NEWSFLASH! Pierce was on the bench with 3 fouls 1st half of game one. I didn’t hear any Celtics fans crying about it.
Kobe threw an elbow at Allen and then ran right through a Pierce pick. Those are both obvious fouls. He doesn’t get to pick and chose what rules he follows. He wants to stay on the floor he shouldn’t make obvious fouls.

By: Chuck...Haters come in all fashions and forms so bear arms

Chuck...Haters come in all fashions and forms so bear arms — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 20:17:42 +0000

@marcus the great
Exactly! You suppossed to win at home! If you don’t you garbage! The knock on the celtics the entire playoffs has been their inability to win on the road. They struggled aganist ATLANTA!!

By: Chuck...Haters come in all fashions and forms so bear arms

Chuck...Haters come in all fashions and forms so bear arms — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 20:13:50 +0000

@K dizzle
I ain’t callin em Mc’s. I’m just sayin they straight right now as far as rap goes.
Biggie’s ten crack commandments, ready to die
Pac’s me against the world. Them joints was classic records! That era has passed homey.
Now we gotta settle for what’s out there now?

By: K Dizzle

K Dizzle — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 19:42:26 +0000

Give it a rest, Dave. If the Jazz had gone into Boston, got 3 weak calls on DWill and had been out free throwed 38-10 (maybe read that stat again) you’d be on here breakin down how the refs took over the game. The series is 2-0 and boston defended their home court. We got all the Laker haters talkin all this smack about Lakers are whinin and we need to win with class blah blah blah. Please STFU. We down 2-0 in the finals, scored 40+ in the fourth quarter to come back from a 24 point deficit in 6 minutes and only lost the game cuz we couldn’t get Kobe the rock late. Heads callin the Celts this great defensive team but we put it on em in the 4th and if the free throws are even 38-28 or 38-18, it’s a tied series goin back to Inglewood. Both teams shot around 50% from the field, both teams shot crazy from the 3 (LA-47%, Bos-64%). The only advantage was the ft shooting even with LA hittin 100%. Lakers had more points in the paint so all this junk about no aggression makes no sense. We went inside. Please stop with the “Lakers let Powe go coast to coast…” So? Odom goes coast to coast every game. It really don’t mean nuthin.Hater throw out all the junk they can find. All that’s happened so far is what’s supposed to happen with a great home team. We just wanted a split and sorry if u never played the game before, but when you get outshot by 28 points at the line, you ain’t gon win……I gotta agree with Gee on this; Plies is garbage. It’s days like this when we callin Young Buck and Plies “MCs” that I miss Pac and BIG

By: marcus the great

marcus the great — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 19:32:53 +0000

remember everyone, the first two games when the HEAT won the finals went like this for the mavs. and the first 2 games of each of boston’s first 2 rounds. they’ve been in Boston, they’re goin on the road now. the series gets real. the Lakers will be ready

By: Chuck...Haters come in all fashions and forms so bear arms

Chuck...Haters come in all fashions and forms so bear arms — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 19:27:36 +0000

@Dapro and Gee
T.I. Jeezy and Plies be spitten that real though, as far as the streets go. Eightball and MJG all over again.

By: Chuck...Haters come in all fashions and forms so bear arms

Chuck...Haters come in all fashions and forms so bear arms — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 19:26:09 +0000

@Dapro and Gee
I got some of bucks mixtapes and dude be goin hard!

Rondo is a good growing pg. Dude plays hard, and he plays D, sometimes he makes some questionable decisions, but dude is still mad young.
Derek Fisher is a proven vet though, and he knocks down BIG shots, and he plays D.
Rondo has been playing excellent ball, and that’s evident from his assist to turnover ratio.
1 question though. What is he going to do if Paul peirce and Ray Allen go cold like they have before in the playoffs?
Dude can’t shoot, and it’s easy to get 16 assist when everybody is hitten everything they shoot. It’s not like he’s creating those assist by driving and dishing like Paul, nor does he have a nice J like Fisher. So when the big 3 stop producing, he turns to garbage city!