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Hmmmmm, that is peculiar.
On a side note, Kome only had 2 less FT than the whole Celtics team.
20 FT differential; disgusting.
Hmmmmm, that is peculiar.
and D-Wade is still shooting FT down in Miami
Are you really surprised? It was pre-ordained that the Fakers would repeat.
Aside from a tight booty hole>>>they ain't nothin' better than a fine pre-ordained, or, a shaved poon tang.
Please don't sound like an idiot and watch the game again. It was a combination of the Celtics jumping on headfakes/fouling and last minute hacking to stop the clock. The difference is the Lakers defended without getting up in the air and playing discipline defense on the ground.
Rewatched the 4th...
There wasn't one foul that was called that wasn't clearly a foul.
So if you are spew the same ole BS... show me ONE foul that was called on the Celts that they didnt deserve! ONE!
The Lakers were the aggresors and Boston started playing D with their hands and not their feet. WATCH THE GAME!!!!
Pierce elbowing Artest around halfcourt and then drawing 2 freethrows with like 2-3 minutes left was one that wasn't clear.. that's the only one that I remember.
I'm pretty sure Pau hacked the heck out of KG with no call, as well as shoving the heck out of Rondo pulling down that late rebound.
The main prob I have is that they let them play for three quarters, then started whistling a ton in the fourth. The Celtics gave them, what, four intentional? That means that the Lakers got 15 FTs that weren't intentional in the fourth, opposed to the 18 they shot in the first three quarters. I wasn't a fan of the whistles coming out.
The Celtics were tired. They picked up a few of those fouls just trying to get offensive rebounds. They were reaching and fouling to prevent baskets. They just got beat down by the better team. Deal with it!
I'm not saying the better team didn't win. The Lakers proved to be the better team, obviously.
you should rewatch the game. All those fouls calls in the 4th were so ing obvious. It wasnt like it was ticky tack . Alot were from pump fakes....heck it almost felt intentional. haha
The disparity in talent was clear...in the end starting Rasheed and relying on Baby was the Celts downfall despite their efforts they are not in Gasol, Bynum or Odom's class. Porkins was missed terribly. Old legs did Boston in.
Lakers definitely did seem to benefit a bit more from officiating, but thats typical for the home team. Not saying that its right, but it always goes that way unfortunately. Also, Boston got completely unaggressive in the 4th. They stopped feeding KG and Sheed, both of which were absolutely killing whomever was guarding them. They seemed to start trying to force the ball to go through Pierce, which wasn't working because the Lakers were bent on not letting Pierce go off, doubling him on every drive and off every screen. Gay Allen is still the biggest reason the Celtics lost. Made dumb mistakes, missed easy shots, didn't help take pressure off Pierce.
I think the problem with all the free throws was due in large part with Boston getting into the penalty way too early and the Lakers milking that. From what I remember, most of the calls were right calls you simply can't not call. Lakers did get a favorable whistle in the fourth. I don't think it should be stated otherwise. But the Celtics absolutely obliged.
BTW, the Gasol "shove" on Rondo after the offensive rebound... you'll almost never ever ever see that foul called. You just won't. If it were KG with that rebound shoving Jordan Farmar, it wouldn't have been called either. Mad scrambles for the offensive rebound where one guy is so much bigger than the other player fighting for the ball and the bigger guys gets it and there's some tussling and pushing and shoving, you just won't see it called. Pau fouled Rondo, but that's just won't get called like 98% of the time. I think that was a good no-call.
Rasheed's 6th foul was bull but other than that the 4th quarter fouls were all legit. Boston was a team that ran outa gas, Sheed was in no condition to be playing 35 minutes with that back injury, while Ray Allen and Paul Pierce are way too old to be playing 45 minutes a piece. Perk's injury ed them over a lot, but I've been saying it since game 1 and it's more apparent now than ever, Boston looked like a team that REALLY missed James Posey. No doubt in my mind they win this series if they still had him. I don't fault Rivers for giving Allen and Pierce 45 a piece, there's something about Tony Allen's outa control style that would make a coach nervous as to give him major minutes in a game 7, but Posey would have converted the countless wide open 3's Boston missed.
no doubt. I wanna vomit when I see him shoot.
Rasheed's 6th foul had him moving while trying to get out of the charge circle. Kobe obviously forced the contact, but that was the right call. It was a foul. I mean, it happens all the time in the league where every way of looking at it makes you believe it should be a charge or no-call but if the defender is moving and still in the charge circle, it's a foul on him. That's the rule.
Rasheed was valiant but in the end just too old...
This.
Tired players commit more fouls.
Boston was just gassed by the 4th. Not surprising, you lose a key player like Perkins and everyone has to play more minutes and harder to pick up the slack.
That and tighter calls in the 4th and it was a whistlefest.
Sheed brought it. Still one of the smartest players in the league. Even at this age and lack of athleticism still very skilled, too.
Celtics fans will rightfully remember his lack of effort though.
No one even watched this game, the media and its fans are too wrapped up in where lebron is going.
this. Lebron to the Spurs!
I actually disagree.
Most of the time, I think 7-game series winners are the clear better team.
This is one of those times when I just don't think it's so clear. I still say LA/Boston were incredibly evenly matched. Of course I'd give a slight edge to LA after winning the series, and this is especially true with Perkins out.
But both teams at full strength, with Bynum and Perkins unhobbled, I could see it going the other way and if you played the series over 10 times it likely would 3-5 times.
I felt the same way about the Spurs/Pistons in '05, Lakers/Kings in '02, Lakers/Blazers '00. The champ deserves the le and trophy, no doubt about it, but I think sometimes the le of "best team of the season" is still debatable after all that.
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