It is unreal the contact that doesn't get called on the people guarding him. Yet Klay, Harden, CP3, etc. get call after call flopping around on the 3 point line. At least Harden wasn't getting a lot of those calls in the GSW series
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If Klay Thompson could draw a foul leaning in on a defender in the air, why can't LeBron get that call? The exact same attempt. It's cheap at every level of basketball, but everyone else gets that call.
It is the same phenomenon we saw with Allen Lazard and the picked up flag against KSU last season...
Not sure why I continue watching this. I don't want to go down the road of the conspiracy theorists and say "rigged", but it's completely unreal how one-sided the officiating has been in this series. As if the Warriors need more breaks with how overmatched this series it (the sad thing is, as overmatched as it is, they have needed that help).
The Cavs have made more free throws than Golden State has attempted. Twice as many fouls called on the Warriors. Doesn't tell the whole story, but it doesn't seem like the game to claim rigged.
Just saw this while catching up on DVR. That was absolutely ridiculous. Instead of getting the foul that GSW deserved to get, they get an undeserved FT out of the technical foul. I mean, I just can't even right now.
You have to feel Lebron is out after this, he wants to win another title and its not happening in Cleveland he can't do it by himself and they are so cash strapped because of paying the guys he wanted (Tristan and J R). He'll stay in the East thats for sure.
Why not just have Lebron join the warriors. Only makes things slightly more boring than they already are in the NBA playoffs.
I would think LeBron would say in the East just because he is guaranteed to make the Finals. However, if he went to the West, the Western Conference Finals would essentially become the NBA finals, so LeBron could go all out there, and then rest by playing 30 minutes a game in the NBA finals.
Crazy how good he is at this stage yet, wonder how many more peak years he's got left. He could go even longer by playing more post kind of like Jordan did at the end of his Bulls time, its going to be fun to follow.
If the Rockets could somehow make it work to swap CP for LeBron and dump Anderson in the process, I think that would be their best option. Trying to fit all three of those guys under the cap would mean gutting them of the great group of role guys (Capela, Ariza, Tucker, Gordon, Mbah a Moute).
Draymond Green is the guy in the playoffs who gets the best player on the planet star calls. It's baffling.
VanGundy had the guts to say it on air last night. At least if it were LeBron getting all the calls there would be some logic and tradition to it. There have been series and playoffs where LBJ has gotten all the calls but it hasn't been this year and definitely not these two games.
In game one I think the officials, even the best officials, did get swept up in the home court. It's hard to say with a straight face that GSW outplayed them in regulation.
In game two it was still baffling that somehow Draymond Green is a bigger star getting better calls than LBJ...but that's a comfortable win for GSW with any officiating crew that has ever worked. It was waaaaaaaaaay outside the margin of talking about officiating.
In Game 3 if the best player on the planet gets calls the best player on the planet has gotten the past four decades things will be a lot closer to normal or neutralized. If this continues in game 3 I'll be leading the charge calling BS, you could even argue that one of these two in Cleveland could be tilted toward the Cavs by the refs and it would even things up.
Agreed. The sticking point is Anderson. He's a three point shooting statue making 20 million per season for the next two years. Now that the Nets aren't just buying up everyone's bad contracts anymore who around the league would take on that deal?
I thought going in that the Cavs needed to steal Game 1 or 2 just to make things interesting. I guess I wouldn't be floored if the series went back to Oakland tied 2-2; you can't put anything past Lebron. But it feels much more likely that they're heading back to Oakland for Game 5 down 3-1.
http://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/...tions-bryan-colangelo-secret-twitter-accounts
No way Colangelo survives this, right? Even if it turns out that it was his wife operating the burner accounts the information still must have been getting to her from him. Shockingly unprofessional if that's the case.
No way Colangelo survives this, right? Even if it turns out that it was his wife operating the burner accounts the information still must have been getting to her from him. Shockingly unprofessional if that's the case.
