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wco81 · Post #961 » by **wco81** » Sat Sep 19, 2020 2:21 am

What a joke officiating. 25 FT attempts for the Lakers in the first half alone.

Murray and Jokic both in foul trouble. Lebron charging and getting and-1s. Dwight Howard pushing people around and the refs whistling the other guys.

Now watch, they will give the Nuggets some token calls in the second half but not if the game gets close. But they will manage it so that the FTs are not blatantly one-sided by the end of the game.

Sorry that was 25 FTAs in the second quarter, 32 for the half. It's an 11-point game.

Onus · Post #962 » by **Onus** » Sat Sep 19, 2020 2:34 am

wco81 wrote:What a joke officiating. 25 FT attempts for the Lakers in the first half alone.

Murray and Jokic both in foul trouble. Lebron charging and getting and-1s. Dwight Howard pushing people around and the refs whistling the other guys.

Now watch, they will give the Nuggets some token calls in the second half but not if the game gets close. But they will manage it so that the FTs are not blatantly one-sided by the end of the game.

Sorry that was 25 FTAs in the second quarter, 32 for the half. It's an 11-point game.

It’s pretty impressive that the nuggets are in this game after that showing by the refs

Coxy · Post #963 » by **Coxy** » Sat Sep 19, 2020 2:43 am

Onus wrote:
wco81 wrote:What a joke officiating. 25 FT attempts for the Lakers in the first half alone.

Murray and Jokic both in foul trouble. Lebron charging and getting and-1s. Dwight Howard pushing people around and the refs whistling the other guys.

Now watch, they will give the Nuggets some token calls in the second half but not if the game gets close. But they will manage it so that the FTs are not blatantly one-sided by the end of the game.

Sorry that was 25 FTAs in the second quarter, 32 for the half. It's an 11-point game.

It’s pretty impressive that the nuggets are in this game after that showing by the refs

Yeah that was some seriously brutal officiating in that half. Kings fans are having dejavu.

Jester_ · Post #964 » by **Jester_** » Sat Sep 19, 2020 1:23 pm

I fully expect some suss officiating to bring the C's back into the series with the Heat. Lakers-Celtics finals will be ratings gold, Nuggets-Heat will draw crickets

Coxy · Post #965 » by **Coxy** » Sat Sep 19, 2020 10:53 pm

Jester_ wrote:I fully expect some suss officiating to bring the C's back into the series with the Heat. Lakers-Celtics finals will be ratings gold, Nuggets-Heat will draw crickets

Nuggets-Heat :pray:

Little Digger · Post #966 » by **Little Digger** » Sat Sep 19, 2020 10:56 pm

Jester_ wrote:I fully expect some suss officiating to bring the C's back into the series with the Heat. Lakers-Celtics finals will be ratings gold, Nuggets-Heat will draw crickets

so you think the W’s wins were fixed ?

xdrta+ · Post #967 » by **xdrta+** » Sat Sep 19, 2020 11:09 pm

Little Digger wrote:
Jester_ wrote:I fully expect some suss officiating to bring the C's back into the series with the Heat. Lakers-Celtics finals will be ratings gold, Nuggets-Heat will draw crickets
so you think the W’s wins were fixed ?

So tired of people confusing incompetence for malice.

wco81 · Post #968 » by **wco81** » Sat Sep 19, 2020 11:44 pm

Little Digger wrote:
Jester_ wrote:I fully expect some suss officiating to bring the C's back into the series with the Heat. Lakers-Celtics finals will be ratings gold, Nuggets-Heat will draw crickets
so you think the W’s wins were fixed ?

No if anything the opposite, especially the 2017 Finals.

Warriors certainly didn’t get some lopsided FT advantage like the Lakers are getting now and have in their history.

Mylie10 · Post #969 » by **Mylie10** » Sun Sep 20, 2020 1:43 am

I didn’t see the game. Who was the officiating crew?

wco81 · Post #970 » by **wco81** » Sun Sep 20, 2020 1:48 am

Mylie10 wrote:I didn’t see the game. Who was the officiating crew?

Give you a guess.

Mylie10 · Post #971 » by **Mylie10** » Sun Sep 20, 2020 3:53 am

Scott Foster or Tony Brothers?

wco81 · Post #972 » by **wco81** » Sun Sep 20, 2020 6:35 am

Mylie10 wrote:Scott Foster or Tony Brothers?

How about both?

GQ Hot Dog · Post #973 » by **GQ Hot Dog** » Mon Sep 21, 2020 2:00 am

MPJ is about as talented an offensive player as I've seen and also the worst defender I've ever seen. It's like watching a 6'9 Monta Ellis.

He ball watches like it's his religion allowing his man to run away from him causing all sorts of chaos. He's just lucky the guys he defends in this series tend to be marginal offensive players.

If we got him somehow, Kerr would consider him borderline unplayable. Draymond would have an aneurysm.

ILOVEIT · Post #974 » by **ILOVEIT** » Mon Sep 21, 2020 3:27 am

Sigh...Laker's win

DAWill1128 · Post #975 » by **DAWill1128** » Mon Sep 21, 2020 5:21 am

GQ Hot Dog wrote:MPJ is about as talented an offensive player as I've seen and also the worst defender I've ever seen. It's like watching a 6'9 Monta Ellis.

He ball watches like it's his religion allowing his man to run away from him causing all sorts of chaos. He's just lucky the guys he defends in this series tend to be marginal offensive players.

If we got him somehow, Kerr would consider him borderline unplayable. Draymond would have an aneurysm.

Watching him is a bit like watching KD in that he's like 6-10, long, athletic, and can handle the ball a bit for his height. They always have him on the weakside of the Murray-Jokic pick n roll and he will hoist some 3's. But I can't help but think why don't you just attack the hoop and dunk the ball already.

Porter has a bit of that ultra big kid that doesn't really know yet how big he actually is. If he could just figure out that he's like the biggest NBA small forward next to KD and play like it the Nuggets would win this series.

superunknown · Post #976 » by **superunknown** » Mon Sep 21, 2020 2:39 pm

james stole 16 MVP votes from AD.

wco81 · Post #977 » by **wco81** » Wed Sep 23, 2020 4:02 am

Murray and Jokic are playing with a lot of confidence. Not scared of Lakers.

Now can their role players contribute? Tonight they did.

Team seemed like they should have won game 2 and now be up in the series.

In the first two games they were outshot from 3 by the Lakers. Today they flipped it.

The Eastern teams are probably better shooters from distance.

But they don’t have a lot of length to try to slow down Lebron and AD like Denver has. But these players are going to score. The key is to prevent the Lakers roll players from getting hot.

Zach Lowe said just double them and force other Lakers to beat them.

Frozzy · Post #978 » by **Frozzy** » Thu Sep 24, 2020 1:15 am

Iguodala right now

Watch on YouTube

Still <3 you Dre

superunknown · Post #979 » by **superunknown** » Thu Sep 24, 2020 9:05 am

heat-celtics game 4 of disconcerting ungliness.
Apart "I need a herro" performance the rest was ugly to watch.
This is the conference final, you'd expect much more.
Thank **** the NBA ratings have been dealt a massive blow.

wco81 · Post #980 » by **wco81** » Thu Sep 24, 2020 5:03 pm

It was interesting to see vets like Butler and Dragic let Herro have the ball in key possessions down the stretch.

Maybe because he was hot? Or maybe because the Celtics' best defenders were on Butler and Dragic? A few times, Butler tried to back down Kemba when he had a favorable matchup.

Smart took some bad shots, had a key turnover down the stretch.