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Is that why the Jazz have OUTSCORED YOU IN THE PAINT for two consecuvite games? What a **** joke.
No **** sherlock. Free-throws don't count as 'points in the paint'. Or maybe you think the Lakers are drawing all those shooting fouls on jumpshots?
Not just that, but AK is among the league leaders in FT per FGA. Deron Williams is near the top of the league among PGs in FTAs per FG, and Matt Harpring is a FT shooting MF.
Harpring and AK haven't done **** in this series to warrant free-throws.
All this stuff about not meeting your regular season averages is garbage. The playoffs ain't the regular season, and the team you're playing against isn't your average regular season opponent. The idea of using your averages against 29 other teams as a performance metric against us is ridiculous.
The matchups are completely different, the strategies are different, the rotations are different etc. it's a completely different situation.
Most of Kobe's FTs have come from ticky tack slaps and pulls on the perimeter.
Yes, you can not hold, handcheck, and bodycheck in the NBA. This **** ain't new. You guys have had 4 years to adjust to these rules. A Houston fan said it best; You got away with it in the Houston series because they're physical too and so the refs call the games differently. Now that you're playing a more finesse team your guys have failed to adapt.
Besides, quit your bitching about Kobe. Not only did you intentionally foul anyone and everyone at the end of the game but your guys had no choice but to foul everytime they let Kobe get super deep position in the paint or blew by someone on the perimeter.
"I'm sure they'll jump off the bandwagon. Then when we do get back on top, they're going to want to jump back on, and we're going to tell them there's no more room." - Kobe in March of 2005