This is one of the worst officiated games I've ever seen, right up there with Lakers/Kings and Lakers/Celtics 2010.
Yes, just awful. My eyes are hurting so bad they'll probably start bleeding any moment now.
I suppose we should have expected such a sorry display. The league wasn't going to allow LeBron to be swept or be content with a mere four games of skrilla.
It'll be interesting to see if the attention ****s in stripes continue to try to extend the series and the payday in the next game. The fact that it's back in Oakland hopefully means they'll, for the most part, let the players play and determine the outcome for themselves, especially after tonight's blatant miscarriage of justice.
I would give the edge to the 2010 Celts/Lakers as the worst of all time, and certainly the most painful for Celtics fans. It still bothers me.
The entire crew of refs should've seen jail time for that one.
Ugh. Game 7 was rigged. Celtics should have won that without Kendrick Perkins. That 4th quarter free-throw disparity man....
Looking back, that contest was almost a carbon copy of game 7 of the 1998 Eastern Conference Finals, imo, where anytime someone in red and white got in the lane it was an automatic foul
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That said, while the officiating was atrocious, so was our halfcourt offense, as it always was under Doc, who still doesn't get it, lol
, not to mention Ray failing to haul in a single rebound, always leaking out
, but really, we lost that series in game 3, imo, especially after Artest took Ray out really for the rest of the series, and I've always wondered if Boston would have won at least that game if they moved Pierce to shooting guard and put in Michael Finley at small forward, that way putting a much better defender in Pierce on Kobe, who wouldn't have been able to post up owing to Pierce's height and weight advantage, and Finley wouldn't have hurt us, defensively, because they rarely went to Artest, who was never much of an offensive player, anyway.
Additionally, our offense should have revolved around KG or Sheed, imo, really just keying in on whoever Odom was attempting to defend, lol
. That was the mismatch of the series, to me, and they very rarely exploited it, but when they did it worked every time
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Of course, if Ray had been able to post up at all, we could have just thrown it to him inside against Fisher, but nooooooo
. That was always something that bothered me about Ray, and Pierce, as well - neither of them ever learned how to post up, and let the latter is somehow the best scorer in the history of the franchise?
Give me a break.
I was really hoping that Ainge would have sold high on Perk and Davis during the offseason in 2009, when their respective values were never higher, and replace the former with Ben Wallace. It would have been a lot of fun watching him and Garnett together, imo, but signing Jerry Stackhouse and Joe Smith also would have been great for the bench, in my eyes. Pick up Finley during the year, draft Wesley Matthews, sign Jannero Pargo, etc. That would have been a great team to watch, and I'd like to think that they would have been able to win it all, even with Doc's "halfcourt offense," but we'll never know, now, obviously. Oh well, I guess that there's always 2K, which I haven't played in years, lol
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