LeBron James clearly fouled going to the basket by Hamilton in the closing moments and the previous series before that Rasheed Walace Wallace pushes Anderson Varejao to the floor to before he shoots... Curios to hear your thoughts...
2007-05-24 22:51:51 · 13 answers · asked by tgreer7802 2 in Sports ➔ Basketball
It's the playoffs, those Detroit bad boys will take your lunch money if you let 'em. The Refs might write citations, but won't stop the robberies... I thought 'Sheed OBVIOUSLY pushed Varejao earlier in the 2nd quarter, but they didn't call it then- so he can't expect to get that call in the final seconds.
2007-05-24 23:20:24 · answer #1 · answered by Proto 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Hey I admit I am a Piston fan upfront! I will say that Lebron probably did get fouled on the last play, but the officiating has been terrible all the way around. How many traveling violations can Larry Hughes and Lebron get away with? LEBRON IS NOT M JORDAN! Hughes also palmed the ball late in the fourth quarter and got away with it. RIP was getting mugged alot as well. One foul on Chauncy was BS too. He got all ball on Varejo(sp?) and they called a foul. It is going both ways. It just happens that they blew that one that effected the final, but maybe the calls in the Cavs favor kept the game close. You never know. I realize refs are human and make mistakes, but sometimes you wonder about the entire rigging thing.
2007-05-25 19:17:39 · answer #2 · answered by Ryan W 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, If the call that wasn't made when Walace threw Varejao down, and the foul made on James was called it would have been a different game.
Not to mention several other calls. I almost couldn't watch with this kind of officiating.
2007-05-26 18:11:06 · answer #3 · answered by Raymond L 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In situations like those, you can't bail out a team by calling ticki tack fouls. Hamilton's defense was superb. He was in front of Lebron all the way and had position, Lebron forced the shot. On the Rasheed play however, that was a bad call. He pushed Anderson Varejao to create space. But I agree with Kenny Smith, that on situations like that when the game is on the line you can't flop and expect the referees to bail you out. You need to play real, solid defense in the closing seconds of a close game. (I'm not a Pistons fan. Yeah..it was a push but it was not so hard to cause Varejao that reaction. He flopped and got buried for doing it)
2007-05-25 06:22:58 · answer #4 · answered by taz 2 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Well... Yes and no. Yes because of the slomo cam. But no because:
In Varejao's case, as beef and other commentators have said, the probable reason is that he often goes down with no apparent reason, the result is a wrong foul call.
The referee probably thought he was faking it.
In Lebron's case, referee's sight probably got obscured. Also, it was hard to tell if it was foul without the slomo replay.
And in that loss, the cavaliers should blame themselves for letting that huge 12 point lead slide.
Also. there's the factor of home court advantage physical and mental factors that lead to that call.
2007-05-25 06:25:45 · answer #5 · answered by mister_analization_2004 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
if they were fouled or not it does not matter..
the Cav's were up by 12... they let it go.. they allowed the pistons to make it a game
....they should have held on to that game from that point on... they robbed themselves.... if it was close the entire game i might say yes they were robbed....but they lost a 12 point lead...
how does a team w Lebron james on it go from a 12 pt lead to a close game
i think the cav's coach robbed them too....the plays he called at the end of the game were stupid.... he was thinking his star could finish the game..did he not learn anything from game 1?...
2007-05-25 08:40:06 · answer #6 · answered by Pistons fan 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Both times it was clear that the refs are on Detroit's side. They were SUPPOSED TO call those. THose weren't even questionable.
Lebron and company shouldn't wait til last seconds, they have the capability to outscore Detroit by 10-12 points, but its like they come out of the locker room, in the second half, half dead or something... I don't get it.
2007-05-25 08:35:11 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
No and stop whining why does lebron think every time he has the ball hes foul grow up and play like a man guess were not witnesses this year. and if i can remember varejo was flopping all game the nba needs to start calling flops. they also had a 12 point lead at half what happen to the lead guess we played with there emotions.
2007-05-25 06:03:59 · answer #8 · answered by Beef 3 · 2⤊ 2⤋
second game we threw away, we had like three chances in the last seconds to win and just got away bounces. Detroit will hopefully play the exact same all series, bc then we will win the next 4 straight
2007-05-25 07:04:05 · answer #9 · answered by billy j 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
yeah, but it was sasha who robbed his own team! hard to imagine someone hesitating a shot, with the clock winding down and with a relatively open look. i'd rather see a fight for the loose ball, than a turnover committed. anything can happen had he completed the shot attempt.
2007-05-25 06:24:41 · answer #10 · answered by pure playa 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋