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Lakers-Rockets Second Round

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Brutus1;1462901; said:
No, the funniest part of the saga was what Artest said to Kobe when he got in his face. Paraphrasing "Don't you know I'm Ron Artest". That cracked me up. His reputation got him tossed. He didn't deserve to get tossed.

I'm glad the series is moving back to Houston, those late games suck ass.
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Artest's response in the locker room after the game took me aback. He seemed reasonable - like he has grown up a bit. He admitted he deserved a technical but like you said, he didn't deserve to get ejected but it happened because of his rep.

On the other side, Phil Jackson's answer about what Derek Fisher did was interesting. I think he should've been wearing waders out to the mic if he expects me to believe that was an ordinary pick that happened at the wrong spot. Fisher drew a bead on him and tried to knock him the eff out - plain and simple.
 
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OHSportsFan9;1463958; said:
NBA has gotten out of control with flagrant calls.

Terrible one on Artest. It's impossible to foul anyone going to the basket nowadays.

Seriously, when did the game get pussified?
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The worst part about that call was that Artest not only made a play on the ball, he actually hit the damn ball. Compare that to Rondo who neither hit nor even made a play on the ball, and tell me how that wasn't a flagrant, but Artest's was. NBA officiating is a complete and utter joke.
 
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purplehaze1213;1463966; said:
The worst part about that call was that Artest not only made a play on the ball, he actually hit the damn ball. Compare that to Rondo who neither hit nor even made a play on the ball, and tell me how that wasn't a flagrant, but Artest's was. NBA officiating is a complete and utter joke.
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Yep, he did hit the ball. Calling that a flagrant 1 would have been a mistake, calling it a flagrant 2 was a joke. As least the game was basically out of reach so the ejection didn't really factor into which team won the game.

Artest showed great restraint last night when he walked off the court. I expect the NBA to change it to a flagrant 1 in order to admit that it was too harsh, but not take the flagrant away completely in order to avoid admitting that the refs were that far off in their call. I couldn't believe they looked at the monitors and left it as a flagrant 2.

Consistency is certainly lacking. Marbury had a hard foul last night where he wasn't playing the ball, and I'm pretty sure that wasn't called a flagrant.

Perkins threw an elbow/forearm into the throat of Pietrus last night. That's 'above the shoulders' and I think it deserves a 1-game suspension. That would basically allow Howard to have a huge game tomorrow, probably putting Orlando up 3-1 in the series. Of course, that team sucks as a front-runner, so there'd be no guarantee that series would be over.

We'll see what the NBA does. I still can't believe that Rondo can grab on with both hands and take at least 3 steps to throw Heinrich into the scorer's table and not get an ejection or a suspension, but because of a hard rule slapping a guy in the back of the head as he's running past you merits a suspension.

The way things are, I won't be surprised to see a 'hockey goon' thing occurring in basketball. If you want to send a message about not taking shit from the other team, why not have the number 11 or 12 player on your bench deliver it to the other team's star player? You knock a guy to the floor, and then lose a guy for a game or two who wasn't going to contribute anyway.

That would be bad for basketball, but the way things are now I can see a team doing that.
 
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NFBuck;1464475; said:
Wow, Houston has shown up to play, even without Yao...33-18 early in the 2nd.
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I think this is similar to the situation where Orlando actually looked better without Howard in the game where he was suspended. Teams are able to step up for a game when they're missing their best player, but they usually come back to earth pretty quickly.
 
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SayNoToMichigan;1464481; said:
The Lakers just haven't showed up in the first half. If they win the series, which I think they will. If they don't bring their lunch pale on D night in and night out they won't beat LBJ and the Cavs.
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I don't know what you're talking about...they won't beat the Cavs no matter what they do. :biggrin:
 
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BuckeyeTillIDie;1464490; said:
This is the worst I've seen the Lakers play all year.

Not to mention nobodies like Shane Battier and Aaron Brooks are having monster games.
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Yeah, it's pretty bad. The Lakers need to get Fisher out of the game. He's a liability on defense because he just does not have the quickness to stay with Brooks. They should put in Farmar or Shannon Brown to guard him.
 
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