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shrink wrote:Do you Lakers fans realize how pathetic you look, when you complain that the refs aren’t making enough calls in YOUR favor?
Yikes. Take the win, but don’t be tools complaining that an unfair ref advantage you have over all other teams isn’t big enough.
Demagoog wrote:
The jury remains out if he is a championship level coach long term, but after seeing Darvin Hamas stand on the sidelines with his hands in his pockets for years this is so refreshing.
sp6r=underrated wrote:darkse1d wrote:thinktank wrote:REF BALL.
There were way too many fouls called. Compare it to other recent playoff games (like today’s). It just destroys the game. And then the calls they did make were often wrong.
The refs completely took away the wolves bench. Naz and Dante got called for some really cheap foils in the first half and got completely out of rhythm. I don't think I even saw Dante in the 2nd half.
If the refs were trying to help the lakers win they would ensure the Lakers shoot more FTs. It isn't hard to call fouls basketball games. And yet these corrupt refs who want Minnesota to lose gave them 25% more free throws. Why?
A lot of people on realgm have the weirdest viewing habits. They think refs, on their own or by league orders, actively try to fix games. Despite this they care about the outcomes of the games.
If the games are fixed the outcomes have no legitimacy, you shouldn't care at all. Or you should view games the way you watch a movie at home.
instead you all get emotionally invested in games that you believe are fixed which is moronic.
shrink wrote:Do you Lakers fans realize how pathetic you look, when you complain that the refs aren’t making enough calls in YOUR favor?
Yikes. Take the win, but don’t be tools complaining that an unfair ref advantage you have over all other teams isn’t big enough.
leolozon wrote:shrink wrote:Do you Lakers fans realize how pathetic you look, when you complain that the refs aren’t making enough calls in YOUR favor?
Yikes. Take the win, but don’t be tools complaining that an unfair ref advantage you have over all other teams isn’t big enough.
To be fair, it looks like the pro Wolves crowd started the debate by complaining that the refs were favouring the Lakers in the game. What do you expect them to do, not push back against a narrative that was false for this game?
Jimmit79 wrote:Yea RJ played well he was definitely the x factor
Jimmit79 wrote:Yea RJ played well he was definitely the x factor
dakomish23 wrote:Not sure if it was mentioned on the broadcast or if anybody did it on social media, but does anyone have the shooting splits for Luka pre and post that Gobert steal. It really seemed to take him out of the game b/c he was pissed there wasn’t a foul call. He was cooking before that. Only thing I found was 1st half 6-10 2nd half 3-10. For LAL to win the series and make a WCF he’s got to be dialed in the whole time
Wolfgang630 wrote:I don’t think Lakers even played great. Minnesota played worse.
KyRo23 wrote:shrink wrote:Do you Lakers fans realize how pathetic you look, when you complain that the refs aren’t making enough calls in YOUR favor?
Yikes. Take the win, but don’t be tools complaining that an unfair ref advantage you have over all other teams isn’t big enough.
A lot of it is retaliation
Go back in the thread. People in here were bitching that the league was rigging it for LA to win while Minny was in the bonus in the 1st and 2nd quarter (while LA was not). It’s just shameless and it’s pointless to even read the thread during the games. It’s embarrassing
thinktank wrote:KyRo23 wrote:shrink wrote:Do you Lakers fans realize how pathetic you look, when you complain that the refs aren’t making enough calls in YOUR favor?
Yikes. Take the win, but don’t be tools complaining that an unfair ref advantage you have over all other teams isn’t big enough.
A lot of it is retaliation
Go back in the thread. People in here were bitching that the league was rigging it for LA to win while Minny was in the bonus in the 1st and 2nd quarter (while LA was not). It’s just shameless and it’s pointless to even read the thread during the games. It’s embarrassing
DDV played 8 minutes in the first half. He hasn’t fouled out all year. Yet he’s a foul machine suddenly? Riiiiight.
Naz Reid played 8 minutes first half. He fouled out once all year. Suddenly he’s a foul machine too? Riiiiight.
It’s not the FTs. It’s the WHOLE FLOW OF THE GAME. Refs made it impossible for Wolves to get to get in any rhythm until it was too late.
I’ve literally never seen a call where the offensive player scores (Randle), is unable to land in the RESTRICTED area because a player is under his feet (Lebron), then the basket gets over turned even through the foul was after the bucket? WTF was that? LeBron is standing in the RESTRICTED AREA! And even if a foul is called the bucket should still have counted. So much wrong on that play alone.
horrible point. They even took Naz’s 4th foul away and gave it to someone else.
Wolfgang630 wrote:I don’t think Lakers even played great. Minnesota played worse.
KyRo23 wrote:thinktank wrote:KyRo23 wrote:
A lot of it is retaliation
Go back in the thread. People in here were bitching that the league was rigging it for LA to win while Minny was in the bonus in the 1st and 2nd quarter (while LA was not). It’s just shameless and it’s pointless to even read the thread during the games. It’s embarrassing
DDV played 8 minutes in the first half. He hasn’t fouled out all year. Yet he’s a foul machine suddenly? Riiiiight.
Naz Reid played 8 minutes first half. He fouled out once all year. Suddenly he’s a foul machine too? Riiiiight.
It’s not the FTs. It’s the WHOLE FLOW OF THE GAME. Refs made it impossible for Wolves to get to get in any rhythm until it was too late.
I’ve literally never seen a call where the offensive player scores (Randle), is unable to land in the RESTRICTED area because a player is under his feet (Lebron), then the basket gets over turned even through the foul was after the bucket? WTF was that? LeBron is standing in the RESTRICTED AREA! And even if a foul is called the bucket should still have counted. So much wrong on that play alone.
Tell me the ones between Naz and DDV that weren’t fouls. They didn’t foul out this game either
Just because you’re in the restricted area doesn’t mean you can slap someone in the face. The restricted area is not an area where you can just do anything you want if the defender is standing there
So we call for rigging when LA gets calls. We call rigging for LA when Minny is in the bonus early in both quarters because even though LA isn’t getting all the calls, they do sometimes. So how does your opinion lose? It just can’t? Sound argument. I’m sure Laker fans will be extra annoying next thread for every Minnesota call, and it’ll be deserved
Of course nobody even mentioned dirty play of McDaniels, which wasn't even called a foul.
CobraCommander wrote:Wolfgang630 wrote:I don’t think Lakers even played great. Minnesota played worse.
They both shot 20% from 3 and no one scored 100… the wolves let one get away cause they played worse.
Archx wrote:CobraCommander wrote:Wolfgang630 wrote:I don’t think Lakers even played great. Minnesota played worse.
They both shot 20% from 3 and no one scored 100… the wolves let one get away cause they played worse.
You don't think Lakers defense had anything to do with it?
