First of all, there were plenty of no calls and bad calls that impacted the game adversely for the Lakers and beneficial for the spurs. Each of those no calls and bad calls impact the game the exact same as this no call, except this one was at the end of regulation. The way the refs had been calling the game, kobe being mugged, Odom as well...no way Brent Barry was going to get to the line to win the game.
Second of all, the Spurs are a dirty team. Let us not forget how they cheated their way to their 4th title last year through dirty plays. See what Horry did to David West as well. Eventually, Karma will get you.
Third, Lakers were the superior team tonight. Everyone watching the game knows it. The superior team won. That's how it should be.
End of story.
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Sedale Threatt wrote:
That's fine. But what about the rest of my post?
What about the futility of playing the blame game when you can go back throughout an entire 48-game and find multiple mistakes that, had they happened at different junctures, would have been deemed just as crucial? And what about the obvious screwup on Fisher's shot?
None of that matters, I suppose.
Barry and Popovich just said it was a good no-call, and that's good enough for me. Honestly, it would have been good enough for me even if the complained all day long, but props to them for being men. Some of you "guys" should take notes.
I can't comment on Fisher's shot, not without looking at a replay. But as for your first point about how mistakes made at different junctures affect the game in similar manners? In theory, any similar mistakes should matter as much as one another when weighed in a vacuum, but that's not how it works. A mistake made by the refs in the second quarter does not affect the game as much as a mistake late in the fourth quarter because it gives neither team any time to compensate for that mistake. Which isn't to say that the Spurs weren't in this game as a result of referee errors to begin with, or that this can't just be rationalized away like so many other errors in judgment. Its just to point out that we remember the end of a game for a reason, because it holds even the smallest priority over everything that came before it.
Is the blame game futile? By definition yes, since it won't change anything. But that doesn't mean we should just ignore the mistakes that come up along the way, sweep them under the rug and pretend they never happened. Pop and Barry are doing the "sportsmanlike" thing, and sweeping it under the rug, because they know it won't change anything and they don't want any excuses to deter their focus for Game 5. I can admire their ability to adapt to the situation, but that doesn't mean I would do the same in their position.