Conosticator wrote:

Slugger wrote:

NBA officiating has been a joke for years now. Stern and the rest of the NBA brass are really discrediting the intelligence of basketball fans by the way the NBA is officiated. Millions of fans, many who played or coached basketball from their youth to adulthood, know what the rules are and know what is a violation of those rules. Yet, in the NBA, rules are "flexible", depending on the situation. Which totally invalidates the rules and leaves them meaningless.

What specifically bugged me about last night's game was the constant physical contact intiated by Fisher and Vujacic. They were constantly making contact with Williams, Korver, Harpring and Price yet only a couple of calls were made. Yet, if the Jazz so much as breath on their guy they draw the whistle. Frustrating! But, refs aside, the Jazz hurt themselves. Boozer needs to go strong to the basket against that wuss Gasol. And both Boozer and Mehmo keep leaving the backdoor open. When Kobe (or any other guy) drives to the basket, there is always a realease valve coming from the wing, usually Odom or Gasol. The Jazz seem to keep forgetting about that and leaving the backdoor open for easy dunks. Gasol's points come off easy plays where the defense breaks down. Odom is a fantastic athlete and ballplayer, but even his points come on easy dunks, layups and put-backs due to defensive breakdowns. I still think they have a shot at winning the series but they have to work on those things to get it done.

Solution for the Jazz(choose one):
1. Get yourself a "super star" player, or :ohmy:
2. Move to a bigger TV market, :P

and you to may have the honor of having the refs call a biased game in your favor to help you make it to the next round of the playoffs.

Only alternative:
Be so talented that even biased refs are unable to throw the game. :angry:

It's the NBA guys. Remember the goal... $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ :silly:

I would rather lose a game by 20 points and have it be reffed fair then win one by any number! and have it given to us

I wouldn't worry about it too much, statistically speaking home teams lose in game 7's more often than they win them (at least according to my sports psychology professor from a couple years ago), I think the Jazz have a good chance of doing to LA what they did to Houston last year.

Hengst wrote:

I wouldn't worry about it too much, statistically speaking home teams lose in game 7's more often than they win them (at least according to my sports psychology professor from a couple years ago), I think the Jazz have a good chance of doing to LA what they did to Houston last year.

Oops, what happened to game 6, is it just a foregone conclusion that the Jazz will win?? Better ask the refs ;)

YBNORMAL wrote:

Hengst wrote:

I wouldn't worry about it too much, statistically speaking home teams lose in game 7's more often than they win them (at least according to my sports psychology professor from a couple years ago), I think the Jazz have a good chance of doing to LA what they did to Houston last year.

Oops, what happened to game 6, is it just a foregone conclusion that the Jazz will win?? Better ask the refs ;)

True, I think the Jazz will win at home though. I think the Utah crowd really gets into the Lakers heads. We'll see though. I'm not a jazz fan, just a laker hater :-).