2/9-2/15 NBA Discussion

[Bornindamecca]

Re: 2/9-2/15 NBA Discussion

Yeah, Brown's outrage is that he lost, not at the officiating. If he wanted a leg to stand on, he'd have to admit that it was a make up call. Of course he doesn't want to talk about that, because when the other team gets screwed, bad officiating is okay.

[ex carrabba fan]

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Yeah, Brown's outrage is that he lost, not at the officiating. If he wanted a leg to stand on, he'd have to admit that it was a make up call. Of course he doesn't want to talk about that, because when the other team gets screwed, bad officiating is okay.

His tirade reminded me of how ridiculous LBJ sounded when he stonefaced the media by telling them that he didn't travel against Washington. Like..... are you guys serious? They seemed pretty serious.

[Bornindamecca]

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That was a ridiculous moment with Lebron, because he almost took four steps.

In Bron's case, I think he's trying to play the media, fans and refs in his favor. He's trying to exert his influence to maintain the benefit of the doubt and keep those superstar calls going his way. Not sure its working, lmao. I admire the choice though.


Brown...ugh. He just seems like a fool with no perspective. Coaches can't afford to have the same skewed vision because they aren't in the heat of the moment. They are on the sideline with a plain view of the events. Brown is just throwing his credibility out of the window, and likely putting a down payment on some technicals in the playoffs.

[WTF]

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The difference in the calls are:

Lebron was in between Granger and the basket... went straight up.

Granger was on Lebron's hip, leg extended after Lebron is in the air.

Not too hard to understand to me. call me a homer if you will...

Should have never came down to that play... but seriously fellas.

[ex carrabba fan]

Re: 2/9-2/15 NBA Discussion

The difference in the calls are:

Lebron was in between Granger and the basket... went straight up.

Granger was on Lebron's hip, leg extended after Lebron is in the air.

Not too hard to understand to me. call me a homer if you will...

Should have never came down to that play... but seriously fellas.

In real time both looked like their was some contact. In real time IMO you have to make the same call on both plays.

For Brown to rant and rave about how that was the worst call ever was just sad. I can understand him though, if you're the coach sometimes you gotta do that.

[J0nnD0ugh]

Re: 2/9-2/15 NBA Discussion

The difference in the calls are:

Lebron was in between Granger and the basket... went straight up.

Granger was on Lebron's hip, leg extended after Lebron is in the air.

Not too hard to understand to me. call me a homer if you will...

Should have never came down to that play... but seriously fellas.

Homer.

There's no way anyone can complain about the 2nd call in they agreed w/the first one. Neither should have been called, IMO. But since they did, the refs were required to be consistent. No one should complain about consistency. I want a fair game. both got treated fairly. Kudos to the Pacers for calling the exact same play to force the issue.

[Bornindamecca]

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Homer.

There's no way anyone can complain about the 2nd call in they agreed w/the first one. Neither should have been called, IMO. But since they did, the refs were required to be consistent. No one should complain about consistency. I want a fair game. both got treated fairly. Kudos to the Pacers for calling the exact same play to force the issue.

Very well said.

[Stumbleweed]

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Yeah, I'd rather my team lose in a consistently-officiated game than one where there is no rhyme or reason to the calls.

In other news, I wanted to kick Dwyane Wade in the teeth after the game last night. He and CP3 both have that way of getting under my skin with the stuff they do. CP3 is mostly just kinda dirty and a flopper, but Dwyane just gets ALL the calls, and few of them are deserved. I don't pretend to know the pain of Mavs fans, but I was livid last night as Wade continually ran into or over stationary Nuggets players and got the foul every time. Nene had 5 fouls, all of which came from Wade running into his side or doing something similarly ridiculous on his way to the hoop and flailing like he was on fire.

[Checmate101]

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Yeah, Brown's outrage is that he lost, not at the officiating. If he wanted a leg to stand on, he'd have to admit that it was a make up call. Of course he doesn't want to talk about that, because when the other team gets screwed, bad officiating is okay.

Gotta stand up for his son..

[z Revis]

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Both calls were bad. Neither should've been called. But one bad call deserves another. There's no way that one can agree with the foul on LeBron and then disagree with the foul on Granger. They were the same play. Both of them had contact. And either way, in my opinion, had Granger not even touched LeBron it still would've been game over because no way could LeBron have gotten to the basket and scored....Granger was in front of him. And same with the foul on Granger on the very next play. I like the consistency on the refs. If LeBron got fouled...then so did Granger. You can't call a foul on the first one and then not call one on the second one. Even Jim O'Brien said after the game when asked about the last two plays, he said "they were consistent, the calls were very consistent."

[HMcCoy]

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Bad call made in error vs. bad call made on purpose is not consistency. Terrible calls should never be pre-determined. Crawford actually blew the whistle before he even bothered to start the clock, which he as the head ref activates via a button on his belt. Joey made up his mind that he was going to decide this game.

Not a big deal tho. Both were 50/50 plays that should have been let go. I'm more upset that the Cavs staff didn't have those guys better prepared for that play. O'Brien was obviously gonna fish for that makeup call with .4 on the clock, so the Cavs should have been told to make sure they avoided any contact. Totally their fault.

[ThreeKing]

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Mo Williams going off tonight.

[TheMatrix31]

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So, when does baseball season start so I could be disappointed by ANOTHER one of my loves?

[z Revis]

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But anyway, let's go ahead and add the Cavs to the list of top tier teams that the Pacers have beaten....but, like usual, it won't matter because we'll go out and lose to the Bucks tomorrow. We're that inconsistent.

Interesting stat that I heard on Pacers Postgame: The Pacers are the only team in the league to have beaten the Celtics, Lakers, Magic, and Cavs. Yet we're 21-32. lol at that.

Looks like I called it.

No but seriously, this is starting to get ridiculous. We are insanely inconsistent.

I want to pull my eyes out of my head watching this frustrating team.

[roadman]

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The Bucks played great tonight. This is the third night in a row they scored over 120pts without Redd, Bogut and Ridnour.

Sessions was a beast. 12 pts, 17 assists and 7 rebounds.
RJ had 32 pts.

Nice game all around.

They held TJ Ford under 20 pts and Granger had a pathetic shooting night, but still managed 25 pts.

The Bucks matched their total victories last year prior to this years ASB. Skiles doesn't seem to want to throw in the towel.