NBA 2008-2009 Season

[Diamicles]

Cavs looked TERRIBLE in the second half...they won't win 2 games in the series if they have to depend on LeBron dropping 50 every night.

[Dimmauk]

You gotta watch the shit in HD

From that same guy

http://img393.imageshack.us/img393/6...oeddiv1oq4.gif

[Dimmauk]

Denver cant rebound. The refs are calling this close.

[Dimmauk]

Chancey just ownd Kobe! LMAO!

[Akiyama]

Has been a pretty good game so far. I hope Denver wins mainly so it can be a close series, just like I hope the Lakers win one win Denver so we can have an epic seven game series of epicness. Carmello is playing like a man possessed, and Kobe's playing like... well Kobe.

[Tyche]

Oddly off topic, but that Heineken commercial was fantastic

[Tyche]

Hurray!

[Akiyama]

Be a little more descriptive, Tyche.

Anyway, that was a violation by JR Smith,b ut it was odd with how Gasol made the jump at that Jump Ball. It's like he got high and didn't touch until he came back down or something.

[Stee]

This is ridiculous, 3 times now in this quarter, the announcers see it, the crowd sees it why the fuck aren't the refs seeing it.

These are game critical moments too, wtf.

[Tyche]

The only thing there is to hurray about?

[Tymon]

This is the playoffs, if the refs called fouls on every little infraction people would bitch just as hard as if they didn't.

[Akiyama]

The only thing there is to hurray about?

Not descriptive enough! Remember, we can't come in these threads and throw down one to two word posts that don't describe what we're doing it for. Keep on your toes!

And yeah, I agree. Refs missed some calls going both ways honestly, but the reffing wasn't as bad as some series have been in years past.

Either way, fun game tonight. Where was Bynum in the second half?

[Dimmauk]

This is ridiculous, 3 times now in this quarter, the announcers see it, the crowd sees it why the fuck aren't the refs seeing it.

These are game critical moments too, wtf.

Blaming the refs? Like last game when the refs called a foul when the Nuggets stole the ball from Kobe?

Denver should be up 2-0.

[Tyche]

Not descriptive enough! Remember, we can't come in these threads and throw down one to two word posts that don't describe what we're doing it for. Keep on your toes!

And yeah, I agree. Refs missed some calls going both ways honestly, but the reffing wasn't as bad as some series have been in years past.

Either way, fun game tonight. Where was Bynum in the second half?

That was referencing the "what a pass" crap in NFL threads when there were 4 games on. There was one game on in the NBA and I posted hurray when the nuggets had the game sealed save a last second 3pter. To be fair, I was going to type "Hurray, lakers suck" since that seems to be the theme following a lakers loss, but I figured just "hurray" was better than trolling.

[Joemomma]

Blaming the refs? Like last game when the refs called a foul when the Nuggets stole the ball from Kobe?

Denver should be up 2-0.

Because that wasnt a reach-in oooook

[Tyche]

Are the calls really that bad? I couldn't care less who wins this series, so maybe I just haven't been emotionally involved enough to care, but it hasn't seemed egregious to me.

[Akiyama]

That was referencing the "what a pass" crap in NFL threads when there were 4 games on. There was one game on in the NBA and I posted hurray when the nuggets had the game sealed save a last second 3pter. To be fair, I was going to type "Hurray, lakers suck" since that seems to be the theme following a lakers loss, but I figured just "hurray" was better than trolling.

Well I'm just saying, if someone browsed the page and saw "Hurray", they wouldn't know what you were talking about. Maybe they'd know the game, but "Hurray what? Hurray Lakers? Hurray Nuggets? I'm so confused!!11one

Anyway, forget it.

Are the calls really that bad? I couldn't care less who wins this series, so maybe I just haven't been emotionally involved enough to care, but it hasn't seemed egregious to me.

In my opinion, not really too bad. Not the likes of Spurs/Suns a few years back, and there have been a couple questionable calls in each game, but nothing that's 'omg bad'

[Stee]

2 of the non calls or calls were game changing.

And you can call me bias if you want, but the announcers, Van Gundy, Brown and Breen aren't. When they replay incidents in slow mo and say it isn't a foul or is a foul, 98% of the time they're right.

And there were 3 wtf moments, 2 of which were crucial moments.

Whatever though, Lakers are probably going to even the series in Denver. Gasol really needs to step up though, if last year Gasol was playing Denver would not be in this series right now. Now he's missing free throws, not shooting his regular shots.....seriously wake the fuck up.

[Correction]

The point is that for every 'wtf refs' moment there were 2-3 'wtf players' moments. Calls are only truly game-changing when they outnumber bad play. The fact that Gasol and Bynum were inconsistent tonight cost the Lakers any hopes at a lead starting at around halftime. Refs losing you games does happen (See most lakers v celtics series) but that didn't happen tonight.

[Stee]

Gasol was, I think Bynum played really well, except Phil didn't give him minutes. He played like 18 minutes? Phil needs a slap in the face for that one.