According to Section XIV of the NBA Rulebook:
In starting a dribble after (1) receiving the ball while standing still, or (2) coming to a legal stop, the ball must be out of the player's hand before the pivot foot is raised off the floor.
http://www.othbasketball.org/Basketb...ules/Rules.htm
It's okay to acknowledge that Barry traveled on the play. There's really no point in kidding yourself because nothing is going to change what happened.
Doesn't matter if Barry traveled or not, although we know he did. It was a great play by Derek Fisher and a bad decision by Barry. Spurs fans need to get past it like ya'll told Phoenix to get past that bull last year.
I apologize if that last sentence came off more brash than I intended. I'm simply trying to explain what occurred because it's a clear violation of the rules.
i am past the lose....but these other spurs fans cant i guess they really thought we got cheated even though we got all te calls.
Barry traveled. But there's no way you could reasonably expect the ref to see it. When you have to show a replay in freeze-frame to show ANYTHING, then it is time to cut the refs some slack.
Having said that, the refs blew the non-call on Fisher's rim shot. Yes, it was close, and grazed the rim. But there was a Laker and a Spur (Horry) both trying to get the rebound. Yet the ball clanged off Horry's leg. Why? Because neither knows how to catch a ball for a crucial rebound?
No. Because the direction of the ball changed just enough to be out of their reach.
So in honesty, if the league is going to apologize, then apologize for the non-call on Fisher's shot as well as the non-call on Fisher's collision.
Whether you like it or not, the two non-calls balance each other.
But the larger and more important question is this: How come any interaction the Spurs have with Derek Fisher turns out to be excruciatingly close, but ultimately a Spurs-killer?
did he come to a legal stop....
wooooh, he blow their minds again..... and all this while replaying in his head the reels of tape of NBA players doing exactly what Barry did and going to the foul line (Kobe are you listening)?
Lakers: though doth protest too much....
translation: why are y'all in our forum all day, is something gnawing at you? are you saying the league admitted to an imaginary mistake.....?
Nah dummy, the league is covering their ass, and kissing ass to quiet the situation as much as possible. That's the only reason the league issues statements and to issue a statement on what was a referee judgment call is clownish. But that's the NBA management: A bunch of clowns.
All we have to do is focus and end this bull tonight. You Spurs fans can cry all you want while you're on that fishing trip.
class, who's the poster who says he's a spurs fan but called all of us d*cks (aside: moderators? what are they, hmm) for questioning a call that the LEEEEG said was bad, and just started posting at 11:16 AM? you're fake name is so lame... spurs4life0007... I would have used I_am_a_spurs_fan_no_really_believe_me_while_I_bera te_you
context is a concept that is difficult to explain, but sometimes very plain to see
man, it's almost worth it to be screwed by the refs to imagine all the lakers' faces getting redder and redder
I was genuinely curious if I could find some Spurs fans that were rational enough to analyze the play with me and admit that there was a travel before any foul occurred. I know how Laker fans feel about it but it's difficult to know whether someone actually sees the infraction or whether they'll just say whatever benefits the Lakers.
This was an opportunity to review the play from the point of view from some basketball fans that weren't biased from a Laker perspective.
spurs4life0007: you know I'm doing this left handed while reading a book, right?
I HOPE U HAVE SOMETHING GOING FOR U IN LIFE BESIDES IN ABBOUT SPURS LOSING......
Lakers Congrats....i Am Not A Sore Loser......good Game And Good Win For The Lakers....spurs Did Not Play Like Champs......they Played Like Chumps.....
every single time, man, and twice on Thursdays.....
like, Kobe would've gotten this call in warm-ups, with his OWN team
like, there would've been a front page story by Woodward and Bernstein in the -previous-day's paper if it the shoe were on the other foot
like, it would've caused a singularity in Minkowskian space, that would have sucked the stadium and all the phony h-wood bimbos into it, if Kobe or Fish would've not gotten that call in LA, down 2-1 in a series
</hyperbole>
Brent Barry is no Kobe. Fisher would've sank the shot anyways, cuz he owns the Spurs. Thanks
Dermule
Check this out. BEFORE Fisher runs into Barry (what a rookie move not to shoot once he had Fisher in the air), then watch him travel.
YES Spurs fans, he traveled. Watch his feet! His right foot comes off the ground before he puts the ball to the floor.
Come on Spurs fans, you should know basketball by now. I can't believe the NBA would not catch that before they issued their bull comment. If you say that you don't see it than "you are who I thought you were"!!
Now unlike your conspiracy bull that you can't prove, this is fact. Watch the clip, shut up and stop crying like losers. Oh and get ready to be sent home by the better team.
http://i32.tinypic.com/8vvq4m.jpg
and now he tries to be magnanimous and gracious....
it's like he's fallen into a pit of vipers, and thinks if he acts like he's climbed out, the vipers will believe he didn't fall in....
Where's a thread-merge nazi when you need them?
Don't call this a lucky guess. You never played the game.
Some discussions are should be left for people who have played and know the rules.
Truth hurts don't it?
I think the merge comment was meant to merge all of the threads about the same topic, so get off your high horse for a moment. And please don't try and masquerade as a Spurs fan under your le.
Merge hurts, don't it?
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