Thanks for the video. Let me start off by saying that that Game 7 loss to those pansies was by far the worst loss I've ever had to deal with as a sports fan. I'm a Browns fan, and an Ohio State fan at the college level, so I've had my share of heartbreaking losses. I love sports, and I realize that every game has a winner and a loser. Some days my team will get outplayed, and that's just the way it goes. So when my team loses a huge game because they got outplayed, I am certainly disappointed, but I can get over it.
This loss to the Lakers was absolutely disgusting, and I don't know if I'll ever get over it. Heading into Game 7, I was completely convinced that we'd win - no doubt about it. Seeing KG, PP and RA huddled up and talking on the bench at the end of Game 6 made me that much more confident that nothing could stand in our way in Game 7.
IMO, we could literally win every game for the rest of the regular season, and sweep thru the first three rounds of the playoffs, and I still won't be happy. No - I want those punks again, and I want to destroy them. Until we win #18 (preferably over the Lakers), I won't get it out of my system.
David Stern is hands-down the most corrupt commissioner in sports, and the media doesn't even do anything about it. It's unfortunate that no one in the media has the cojones to call a spade a spade. Players and coaches try from time to time, but they're just handed out $25,000 fines on the spot. At some point, I think players/coaches just decide that they're making a lot of money under the current - albeit horribly corrupt - system, so they don't want to rock the boat.
I've played sports at the college and professional level, and I've never seen a game so clearly RIGGED as this one was. I'm not sure how someone could watch that 4th quarter and not be convinced that something dirty was going on. As soon as the buzzer sounded, I turned the TV off, and didn't watch ESPN for a week.
To be honest, many of our games against the Cavs in the last few years have been officiated even worse than this game was. But we were so much better than the Cavs that we were able to win anyway.
Technically, most of the fouls called on the Celtics were indeed fouls. But this is where the confusion stems. How come the Lakers weren't called for ANY of the same fouls? The Lakers clearly couldn't score on us legitimately, so David Stern had his puppets give the Lakers so many free throws that there was no way they could lose. And they still almost lost, because we were that much better than them.
People always retort by saying that the refs didn't cost the Celtics the game, it was the inability to rebound. Sure, we didn't play a perfect game. If we'd made every single shot, and gotten every single rebound, it wouldn't have mattered what the refs did. But it was the NBA Finals, and we were playing a solid, runner-up level team. No one plays a perfect game. By the same token, the Lakers didn't play nearly well enough to win - they choked all night long, and couldn't hit a shot to save their lives (except the Fisher and Artest daggers). Their best rapist, I mean player had one of the worst playoff games of his career.
I don't bring up my playing experience to brag, but just to show that I've heard the "refs can't cost you a game" myth my entire life (and don't think for a second that David Stern doesn't realize that the majority of sports fans will automatically use that myth as soon as anyone questions the officiating). The reason coaches and players say that is because you can't control what the refs do. Ideally, they'll be fair, and the better team will win. But because there's nothing the players and coaches can do about the refs, they focus their energy on things they CAN control. But when it comes down to it, the refs certainly CAN cost a team a game. In a game between two relatively evenly matched teams, the refs can easily make Team A have to out-play Team B by 15 points in order to win by 1. How is that fair? This is what David Stern has the refs do in certain situations on a regular basis, and the Celtics clearly fell victim to it.
And sure, there are always things here and there that Team A could have done to still win the game despite the biased officiating. But why did they have to do that? That's the point a lot of us are trying to make.
TP for the thread, and June can't come fast enough.
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