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Originally Posted by TripletDaddy
A thought I posted earlier on CB....but not sure why the Yao Ming thing is an issue.
Cube complained about illegal screens. So the league told the refs to crack down on Yao's illegal screens, not his legal ones. In my mind, that is a non-issue. Coaches do the same thing during the course of a game....the refs cant see everything, so the coaches point stuff out and sometims it changes how the game is called.
As for Game 6, anyone who wants to slag on Game 6 please first walk everyone through Game 5, which, uopn replay, showed that the ball last touched Webber. Instead, the kings get the ball, bibby takes it, and hits the three to win at the end of the game.
Should have been lakers 3-2 going into Game 6, not vice versa.
i have no problem thinking that game 6 was a gift to the lakers...because they got robbed at the end of Game 5 on a call.
It is a slippery slope to go down when you selectively point out one game or one call as evidnetiary of conspiracy.
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You really think the problem isn't or wasn't more widespread than just Donaghy?
I know through a conversation I had with a retired NBA ref many years ago, that he mentioned the plague of gambling amongst NBA referees long before the Donaghy issue came to light. He told me it was a major problem and also told me that there are many personal vendetta's that certain NBA Refs have against certain players. The Jake O'Donnell vs. Clyde Drexler feud was just one of many.
Why people are trying so hard to suspend their belief in the reality of something like this actually having happened more than they'd care to admit or would like to believe? In my opinion, that just doesn't make sense.