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Kobe was getting hacked a lot in the first half with no calls. Danny Granger got a 3 shot foul when it should have been a 2 shot foul. His foot was clearly on the line.
Yeah, just a tad...but not surprised.
I DO think it's funny though how the Lakers needed that call to win.
Kobe was getting hacked a lot in the first half with no calls. Danny Granger got a 3 shot foul when it should have been a 2 shot foul. His foot was clearly on the line.
Did you watch it on Fox Sports West? The Laker announcers essentially explaned that Granger wrapped his arm around Kobe. That held him up. Holding is a foul. I know calls can go either way, or not be called, but there were many like this earlier. I am not saying it was the right or wrong call, but it was consistent with what was going on all game by the refs. Anyway, Kobe was hitting his shots at the end, so if it's a no call, I like our chances.
No. I live in Indy, so I watched it on FSMW.
Different announces call things different ways. When Chick Hearn was alive and broadcasting Laker games, he called everything as he saw it. If the Lakers sucked, he called it just that. He was always fair. Stu Lantz does the color commentary. He was an NBA player in the 60's, and has been on the Laker job for at least 20+ years. He worked with Chick and learned also to call them fairly, and he does just that.
He noticed the aforementioned 2 point shot that got Indiana 3 free throws. He was going to run down to the Laker bench or call them to contest it, but the quarter ended before he could. So it stood as 3 free throws. Free point for Indiana. Oh well, that's the breaks. It worked out fairly in the end.
Honestly, I never listen to the announcers. They annoy me.
Another coaching gem from Phil.
Go ahead and bench Bynum who was 8-10 and the only real shot blocker around the rim for the Space Cadet Radmanovich who almost single handedly lost the game for the Lakers with his bone-headed plays (technical, giving up wide open 3 to Dunleavy, etc.).
sasha was initially guarding Dunleavy in that posession
Well, I'll take the local Laker announcers over the national network ones any time. If a game is on ABC for example, I'll shut the TV volume off and turn on the Laker radio broadcast. For me, I need the extra insight put on the game. When I grew up, I had to catch most of the Laker games on the radio, no home games were shown (No cable TV) and some of the road games aired on TV. I did find a partial fix to my dilemma when the Lakers played at home and the game was on national TV or aired in San Diego (Original Rocket franchise site). I simply climbed up on the roof and pointed the antenna rabbit ears towards San Diego and got a reasonable view of the game.
Back on the topic of the Granger foul, Stu Lantz was critical of both Granger and the Pacer coach OBrien for having him guard Kobe aggressively with 5 fouls. With a potential overtime looming, it was not a wise choice. He also had to be restrained by OBrien from yelling any more at the referees. A technical was avoided.
the Lakers won't win a le in 2009 unless they start playing defense. They are soft, and can't lock down teams. The Indiana Pacers come in and put up 119 on you? are you serious?
All about tempo. Highest scoring team in the league is going to give up more points because there are more possessions. Opponents FG% is a better barometer of D than points scored against.
LA can play D when they need to this year.
maybe they should abandon that tempo then, you can't let scrub teams hang around for 4 quarters every night- which seems to be the case with the Lakers
The Lakers can play good defense when they want to.
Go watch the X-mas day game, they did a fine job on BOS.
The Lakers are without Walton, Farmar, and Odom. I don't care what happens as long as they win games right now, I'm not going to complain in January.
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