This Series Was Fixed!!

[Charles7]

bumb ubm!

[bfrombleacher]

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You picked the worst...worst possible time...to spam on a Celtic website. I wish you the worst. I'm sorry. You are the worst.

[Bahku]

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You picked the worst...worst possible time...to spam on a Celtic website. I wish you the worst. I'm sorry. You are the worst.

Got that right ... this same person/bot has been doing this for almost two weeks, with a different ID every night, (and at around the same time every morning), and the same lame, meaningless posts ... you'd think they'd get a life by now. I keep reporting, but I'm sick of it. They obviously have to create a new account every day ... what a great use of their time, huh?  

[LarBrd33]

If it was fixed... then they are all fixed... and our 2008 title is tainted due to a "fix". 

Cut and paste from another thread:

My problem with that logic is that it hinges on the improbable idea that the NBA favors LeBron, looks after him, coddles him and gives him the benefit of the doubt because they have some kind of vested interest in seeing him succeed.   And if you're willing to make that crazy conspiracy theory leap... you almost must accept that our 2008 title is tarnished.  Where does it end?  Where does Stern's evil influence start and end?  Did he not give star treatment to Kevin Garnett, Paul Pierce and Ray Allen?... three franchise players... one an MVP.  In 2008, Kevin Garnett was as much a face of the NBA as LeBron.  Was he getting the benefit of the doubt too?  This idea that Stern only fixes it for "other" teams and not the Boston Celtics is kind of stupid, if you ask me.  It's a slippery slope.  If it's fixed, it's fixed... and Stern forced Memphis to trade Pau to LA, forced Minny to trade KG to Boston... and used his minion refs to assure a Celtics/Lakers final with a Boston victory, because it was "in the best interest of the league".

It's nonsense.  LeBron's a beast.  There's no fix.  We lost.  Our 2008 title was legit.

Yes because you are some authority on all things NBA. NBA does protect Lebron. Too say otherwise is just ignoring the obvious There was pleny of example in this game alone. No tech for hanging on a rim, they called KG on that in a different game. Lebron had 0 fouls for a whole game? Give me a break!

Nobody is saying Lebron is the only one to get star treatment. All star players have gotten it but Lebron get protected more then most! 0 fouls in the amount of time he played? This series was the 1st time Lebron has fouled out since joining the Heat. All the evidence needed imo.

Alright man.  Actually, I saw KG hang on the rim earlier during this playoff run for a really long time and not get called for it.  And the fact that LeBron actually fouled out for the first time ever during this series kinda contradicts the idea that he was getting favored... but we're picking nits here.  He's a great player.  There was no fix.  There is nothing I can say and there is nothing LeBron can do that will change your (or any anti-LeBron poster's) opinion here.  Honestly... there's nothing he could do on the basketball court that would change your opinion of him... he's already doing anything possible (best player in the world without question).

[chambers]

Chris Bosh might be a robot, and used his laser beam to put those three pointers in.

They just got the roll of the dice in the 4th quarter.
They had to resort to jacking up three after three and hit enough three pointers to stay in the game.
Lebron hits a monster, Bosh hits a monster.
Van Gundy was 100% right in repeating the fact that we needed Bass to play off Lebron and give him more chances at shooting the jumpshot. He basically got to the line at will and scored 6 of 8 free throws during a short stretch in the fourth. It was rather infuriating watching Bass try and smother him, get beaten and have our help defender show up way too late to do anything except lick Lebrons forearm as he got off a nice layup.

There's simply nothing you can do  when teams are shooting that hot from three point land.

Who would ever pick Bosh to hit 3 of 4 from the three point line?
Them's is the breaks.

[makaveli]

Congrats to miami, the better team won, the C's gave it all...so proud of them

[Bahku]

As I stated earlier, I don't believe this game was fixed, and in fact it was called better than most have been of late ... in part.

But seriously, anyone who thinks Lebron doesn't get any preferential treatment in this league, just isn't watching very closely.

The guy has even come up with his own tailored-made excuse for why he gets away with traveling on every other trip to the basket: "The Crab Dribble".

Please.

He did it tonight almost a dozen times, and it's one of the easiest calls to identify and make, if you know the game and it's rules.

As far as fouls? That's another whole can of worms, but all you need do is watch his stare-down of the official in game five to know who's calling the shots.

I've watched basketball for many, many years, and I've never seen a player do that ... it absolutely stunned me that anyone could get away with it.

I mean, the questionable foul calls are pretty easy to identify, (and ignore, as many seem to do in favor of his "best player in the world" free pass - *sigh*), but that little episode was above-and-beyond anything remotely out of the norm.

Anyway, those who love the guy will never stop singing his praises, or stop making excuses for the things he gets away with that no one else seems to, (must be that free pass again), and those who see him a bit more realistically, will never stop being accused of attacking him out of "blind hatred", (poor thing).

There will always be two sides to this, as there is to everything on any good blog, (or bad one), and I guess that's what keeps the blogging world going round-and-round.

But to even suggest that players, teams, franchises, coaches, et al, never get the benefit of any officiating bias, well, that just puts officials into that "perfect" category, one that none of us fit into, unfortunately ... not even Lebron, or Joey Crawford, (sheesh!).

[fmf2]

I do not believe Miami is the better team.

Although Bosh and Lebron hit big, low percentage shots, no calls at the other end changed this game. Why did the C's only score 15 pointsin the 4th? Why did they shoot ZERO free thows?

Here is just one example. With 7:35 to play, it was 83-82 Miami. Pierce caught it on the left wing behind the 3 point line. Wade clsed out aggressively and fell for Pierce's shot fake. There was contact and a loose ball. As Pierce and Wade scrambled for it, the refs quickly awarded Miami a time out. If it had been a foul on Wade,it would have been his 5th.  

I could go through the entire quarter and point to about 6 calls OR NO CALLS that gave the Heat a big advantage.

The Celtics could have played better on both ends, but I will never accept that the Heat won last entirely because they are "a better team."

[Frontierboy]

Listen.... NBA is a business.... they got what they wanted with the Thunder and Heat in the Finals.

As with any business, you want to do whatever it is to make the most money and this is what the NBA feels can make themselves the most money ( especially in a lockout season when they're trying to makeup for the money they lost)

The Finals will go at least 6 games as the NBA will not allow a sweep.  Also, seeing as OKC is a small market, having the Heat win the championship would bring in more money for the NBA. 

That being said, there's a good chance the Heat win the NBA championship this year

[Kuberski1]

The Heat deserved it, outplayed us in Games 6 and 7.  It's not about fixing, more about our lack of depth finally caught up to us....5 guys only get you so far.  (Man, would have loved to play this series with the whole gang: Avery, Green, Wilcox, JO - now that would have given us much needed depth).

But, no excuses...played fantastically well, but still lost.  Congrats to the Heat, hope you get the cra* kicked out of you in the next round.

[CelticsFanNC]

  FIXED??

  Come on now.  We can't guard there best two players because the players we have at those same positions aren't athletic enough to handle them mostly due to age and injury.  We have Bass on LeBron because Pierce would need ten fouls to guard him all game long.  We can't get a rebound when it counts because KG is our only legitimate BIG and he is chasing Bosh out at the 3pt line.  We got nothing from our bench. 

  The Celtics had a wonderful but also unexpected run to the conference finals where thy lost to a better, yet flawed team.

[TheBigTicket23]

Heat was just better in g6 and g7. Game 2 got Edited.  Profanity and masked profanity are against forum rules and may result in discipline.ed by the refs, sick of that one.

Proud of this team, so facking proud

[Moranis]

I could go through the entire quarter and point to about 6 calls OR NO CALLS that gave the Heat a big advantage.

You could do that the other way as well.  Take off the green tinted glasses.  The refs could call a foul virtually every possession of every game.  No one would want that.  Just the like the refs in the NFL could call holding on every single play.  Again, no one would want that.  The play you are talking about on Pierce was such minor contact it shouldn't be called. 

[MBz]

The celtics had flaws, the Heat exposed those flaws and took advantage of them.  If we had a big guy who could really rebound, I think we would have won this series.  Other then re-signing KG, finding a big body who can hit the boards strong should probably be #2 on Ainge's to do list.

[celtsfan84]

I don't know how much more definitively and clearly the HEAT could have been the better team here.  If everything is "fixed" to help LeBron, why do we have 1 championship and he has zero?  Was it fixed in 2008?

I would be much more willing to believe the anti-LeBron conspiracy theories if they made sense.