kobes foot was on the line

[Frank Lee]

IMO his foot was totally inbounds

I am relieved... I will choose to believe it was so.


We do not need another controversial egg in our basket of woeful 'what ifs'

[John from Hemet]

I just want to say I applaud all the Suns fans who aren't making excuses about this foot on the line business.......that is not where the game was lost or won....it wasn't lost or won how where Kobe got fouled trying to get the shot off either.

Nash played amazing....I have so much respect for him as a player. And he was exactly right in his press conference.....all that has happened in this series so far is the home team has defended their court and did what they needed to do.

That is why you gotta get that home court advantage through the regular season.

[kevin_405]

Check the highlights on espn
http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/recap?gameId=300527013

1:24 on the video, clearly shows kobe was inbounds..

reverse camera angle shown by TNT did make it look iffy and being a lakers fan was hoping it was not a out of bounds play not called by the refs..

Btw the Refreeing in this series has been pretty ordinary.. both sides being on the receiving end one point or the other...

[Sun Scorched]

I thought this was a thread about that third shot Kobe made when he was rattling off treys. His foot was on the like in that shot and I thought for sure they were going to review it.

Had no bearing on the game, I just expect more from a guy who is standing there in the arena, five feet from Bryant.

[garyb916]

I thought this was a thread about that third shot Kobe made when he was rattling off treys. His foot was on the like in that shot and I thought for sure they were going to review it.

Had no bearing on the game, I just expect more from a guy who is standing there in the arena, five feet from Bryant.

I thought that too when it happened, looked like a 2 to me. Like you said though, didn't really matter in the grand scheme of things.

But I do think the league should really consider changing 2 rules this off-season:

1) The hack-a-dwight is absolutely terrible. It was a good game before they started doing that. Sure it does make a little sense if he misses the ft's but it absolutely ruins the entertainment factor, which is why the NBA is making billions of dollars every year. Stop pissing us fans off with that crap ass tactic, we're paying you to keep it fair and exciting.

2) I really think there should be coaches challenges on anything, including fouls. Maybe like 3 or 5 a game. It wouldn't slow things down very much to have a quick look at a replay, and it would give the game 500000% more credibility. It's absolutely terrible when a game is won or lost on a bad call. To me it's more important to get the calls right than it is to have the game going so fast. Also think it's a matter of pride for the refs. "I said it's a foul and what I say goes meh meh meh". They're obviously wrong a lot of times and I don't blame them for being human, but it would be great to give them an opportunity to make up for it.

[monopoman]

I would love to claim he is out of bounds I really am one of the biggest Kobe anti-fans but he was in bounds when he jumped up and when he came down he went out of bonds. Unfortunately at that point the ball was out of his hands.

If you guys are referencing another shot then I am not sure... Not sure why you guys posted a video of the final shot of the game.

[Kerrsed]

This thread needs to be locked. Foot was definitely in-bounds. OP was making an excuse for the lose (or jumping the gun), and 100% of the people posting in this thread knows he is wrong.

/no further discussion needed.

[DRK]

This thread needs to be locked. Foot was definitely in-bounds. OP was making an excuse for the lose (or jumping the gun), and 100% of the people posting in this thread knows he is wrong.

/no further discussion needed.

WHy dont you go ahead Mr Moderator?

[garyb916]

This thread needs to be locked. Foot was definitely in-bounds. OP was making an excuse for the lose (or jumping the gun), and 100% of the people posting in this thread knows he is wrong.

/no further discussion needed.

WHy dont you go ahead Mr Moderator?

Lol, I haven't been here long but Kerrsed's contributions to this board are awesome. I'd nominate him for moderator.

Now if only he'd change his damn avatar. WTF is up with that anyways lol?

[lilfishi22]

2) I really think there should be coaches challenges on anything, including fouls. Maybe like 3 or 5 a game. It wouldn't slow things down very much to have a quick look at a replay, and it would give the game 500000% more credibility. It's absolutely terrible when a game is won or lost on a bad call. To me it's more important to get the calls right than it is to have the game going so fast. Also think it's a matter of pride for the refs. "I said it's a foul and what I say goes meh meh meh". They're obviously wrong a lot of times and I don't blame them for being human, but it would be great to give them an opportunity to make up for it.

You have a point but the system right now works well most of the time and adding more reviews just slows down the game and if you review every call then there's no point of having refs and refs loses any credibility when making other easy calls. The reason end of game calls don't get reviewed in game is because the NBA doesn't want the refs to make a game winning call. Refs do their best to see the little things that the fans don't normally see and they make the call or the non-call based on that.

An example would be the Artest game winning shot possession. Frye was actually fouling Gasol when he was boxing him out so the refs, by definition of the review, would need to call the foul if they play it by the book. But the fact that he nor Gasol affected the shot going in, they won't call that. If they reviewed it and called a shooting foul off the ball then Gasol would go to the line. Conversely if Artest hadn't made the shot but the Lakers challenged that last possession stating that Frye was fouling Gasol, then the refs would have to review it and call a foul on Frye, which means Gasol, again, goes to the line. This is why they don't review calls or non-calls in game winning situations, unless it's a questionable basket interference or a shot clock interference. It's this nitpicking that makes the ability to review *anything* stupid and takes away from the game.