The Niuggets would be better if..........

[baseline bum]

Nuggets would be better if they could grab a defensive board.

[iggypop123]

the foul was actually on smith grabbing kobe's arm. some people just look at things through their biased glasses

[hhml]

Stop with the whining you got ass es. Take off your hatred and bias for the Lakers and just accept the fact the Nuggets blew it.

[hhml]

It's the timing of the calls. Denver should shoot more FT's, they led the league in FTA's. But, the crap call goes Kobe's way when Carter blocks his shot and Carmelo was airborne when Gasol stepped in and should've been a block, but in LA, it's an offensive foul.

You're a .

[turiaf for president]

wow seriously quit ing man. nuggets missed 12 ft's. i guess they switched the balls to bowling balls when the nuggets were shooting ft's

[HarlemHeat37]

Lakers got slightly more biased calls IMO, but it had little to do with the outcome..

Nuggets missed countless free throws, made horrible decisions all game, and just simply choked..

[Nahtanoj]

Hmm.. interesting discussion going on.

[iggypop123]

nuggets would be better if carter, and jones were 3 inches taller

[TJastal]

Lakers got slightly more biased calls IMO, but it had little to do with the outcome..

Nuggets missed countless free throws, made horrible decisions all game, and just simply choked..

+1

I thought the refs did a great job of blowing calls on either side, with probably 60% favoring the fakers and 40% to the nuggz, which, if your playing the lakers at Staples you can be happy about.

Nuggets clearly outplayed them, but the jitters at the FT line cost them the game. Once they start settling down I bet this series takes a turn.

[TJastal]

LMAO. Shoulder? He reached over to grab his hand cause he hurt it you dumb .

Thank god for instant replay and ESPN willingness to use it. They must have showd the replay UP CLOSE 3 times at least.

When u view it up close, anyone can see bright as day that Bryant was clearly in control of his body and was angry about his little hurt hand and deliberately took 3 steps and lowered his shoulder and rammed it into Martin's mid-section, then acted like his "hurt hand" caused him to lose control.

It was very clearly an extremely dirty play, not quite as dirty as the one by Fisher in the rocket series, but close.

He is extremely lucky he is Stern's darling and they probably won't review it.