A lot of my views are pretty in line with Glassman's but I wouldn't say quite that harsh. I don't think the game was fixed nor do I think Stern benefited in any way with one team winning or losing. Had this happened in Game 6 to get us to a Game 7 then I would be a bit more on board.
My thing is this... through 3 quarters of the game last night the two teams were allowed to bang. Dave says it perfectly when he mentions the amount of free throws attempted by each side. The sudden urge to call a tight game in the 4th quarter was ridiculous. As a matter of fact, I told Nagle before Game 7 that if the game is called tight the Lakers would win in a rout whereas if the teams were allowed to play it would be much more beneficial to the Celtics (which it was).
Basically had refs called the entire game the way they called the 4th quarter the Lakers would have won by 25 points.
I could make up my own analogy about this situation, but I heard Tony Massarotti say it perfectly this afternoon. This is equivalent to watching a baseball game where through the first 7 innings the strike zone was very big, but then at the end of the game the ump decides, ok, I'm taking over, and shrinking it down to nothing. You just don't see that, why would you see that?
I have absolutely no problems with the Lakers beating the Celtics legitimately, and they may have anyways if the refs swallowed the whistles. But.... we'll never know, and it's a god damn shame.
So now where does this rank in dick-punch losses for New England teams in recent memory..... I got it ranked #4....
Ladies and Gentlemen, your top 3 brutal losses (in reverse order).
#3. 2006 AFC Championship Game. Colts 38 - Pats 34
Patriots beating the Colts 21-3 then the Colts offense goes bananas in the second half, there are a few rotten PI's, Tom Brady & Troy Brown doesn't convert a game clinching 3rd down, Reggie Wayne fumbles right to himself, then Brady ends the game with a pick. To make matters worse douche bag Peyton Manning won the Super Bowl two weeks later and held up what should have been Brady's fourth trophy.
#2. 2007 Super Bowl. Giants 17 - Pats 14
To this day I would honestly say I think about this game a few times a week. It will haunt me until the day that I die that the Patriots didn't cap off their historic amazing season. Finally a team with the balls to go for perfection (unlike the pussy Colts - how'd that work out Pollian?) then losing it in the final 90 seconds of the Super Bowl cuz some 5th string WR caught a desperation quacker off the side of his helmet. Historically this is the worst loss in my lifetime since history was on the line. However.....
#1. 2003 ALCS Game 7. Yankees 6 - Red Sox 5
The only game to make me cry like a little girl. Absolutely agonizing defeat when all we knew as Red Sox fans was 85 years of this very same crap.
So in conclusion Celtics fans.... well I don't really know where I am going with this, but now I'm going to go pop in the 2001 Patriots America's Game DVD... I need to cheer myself up.
Friday, June 18, 2010
Game 7 Venting.... Glassman
Anyone who needs to vent after Game 7 feel free and I'll post it... I know Dave needed to, so without further ado, here's his take:
THE NBA: WHERE FIXED CHAMPIONSHIPS HAPPEN
The Fakers. It's not exactly a clever nickname but it couldn't be more fitting really could it? Fake people, fake fans, fake city full of fake boobs, a fake team in a fake league run by a fake commissioner, and most importantly, fake championships.
With that said, here my exact words entering the 4th quarter:
"The refs are actually calling this game even right now. There's been maybe 1 or 2 bad calls either way"
Given what happened, it's amazing that I actually made this statement. But should we really be surprised?
Flashback to January. LA at Boston. Boston up by 1. Seconds to play. Pierce goes to his step back shot but has a hand on Artest as he stops a la Michael Jordan on Bryon Russell. Money and the foul. C's up 3 and will win. Oh wait.. why is Artest in the 3rd row? Huh? The foul was on Pierce. I recently watched this game deciding call on YouTube and it was an even more putrid call than I remember. Artest deserves an emmy for that flop and the ref deserves to be executed for calling it.
Now let's go back to game 7. I had just made my bold statement. C's were up 6 I believe. Gasol takes a jump shot with Glenn Davis in his face. There is no contact. Swish and one. Ugh, AWFUL call. Ok, no big deal. It's just one bad call right? Kobe has the ball behind the 3 point line with Allen defending. Kobe does the move where a player tries to get a foul because Allen's right hand was in the air over Kobe's arm. Foul. 3 shots. Are you fucking kidding me? They call that? In this game?
After everything they've let go? Artest shoulder tackle into Pierce and banks it in. Foul. What the FUCK is going on? And now here it comes...
With 4 minutes left in the 4th quarter, Llama Gasol had the ball on the baseline and was being guarded by KG. KG put his arms in the fetal position and turned his side to Gasol as Gasol rose up over him and missed a shot. Foul.
It was with this shot that game 7 was decided. Not because LA had the lead. Not because it was a great shot. No. It was because that call was the 4th awful, attrocious call in a row that favored the Lakers. In a game where players were ripping each others heads off for 3 quarters, suddenly standing next to a player was enough to committ a foul - as long as you were wearing green while standing there.
At that point, I realized the Celtics would not be allowed to win this game. I refused to watch another second of this debacle. With 4 minutes left, I simply walked outside and waited until the game ended. Yep, you read that right and many friends can confirm it. I absolutely, positively refused to watch anymore of a game that was so obviously fixed. I almost went back in once but was told a 100% clean block on Kobe Bryant had been called a foul.
What is even more mind boggling about all of this is that the Lakers were taking jump shots. They weren't being aggressive. 3 of the 4 rotten fouls I named above were JUMP SHOTS!!!!
For 3 quarters, these teams played the same way. Tough defense and desparate, bad offense. Not one thing changed in the 4th quarter and yet take a look at the Free Throw numbers.
1st - 3rd Quarter: LA 14, Boston 11 (rough average of 5/Quarter & 3.7/Quarter)
4th Quarter: LA 23, Boston 6
These numbers are staggering. 23 to 6 in the 4th versus 14 to 11 for the first 3 quarters. Any rational, respectable, human being with half an ounce of common sense can absolutely agree that that reeks of fix. Had Jack Nicholson been officiating, there would've been less foul calls on the Celtics. Yet despite not changing their style of play one bit, the Lakers received more than QUADRUPLE the FT'S in the 4th quarter as they did in any other quarter.
What I want to know is why? I want to find David Stern and beat this information out of him. Why Stern? Why fix this game?
How could you do this to all those diehard Celtic fans who poured their heart and soul into every game? Who lost sleep every night before a game and every night after a loss? To hand another title to the arrogant, bandwagon, cocky, undeserving, condescending, assholes that are the LA Lakers is despicable.
Now hard working, good guys like KG, Paul Pierce, and Ray Allen will end their competitive careers as losers while evil, whiny, arrogant pricks like Phil Jackson, Kobe Bryant, and Derek Fisher walk out as winners? Whatever happened to good things happen to good people?
What's worse is that most of their faggot fans are so busy sucking Kobe's dick that they won't admit that any of their titles were fixed. ARE YOU FUCKING BLIND? 23 FTs to 6?? SIX!!! Sound familiar Kings fans? Until your team is on the wrong end of a fix, you'll never know how it feels. I always thought I understood what happened to the 2002 Kings. I was wrong. It wasn't
until last night that I finally got it.
I will never again watch a live NBA game. I will always secretly root for the Celtics and against the Lakers but I will not watch. This is after 23 years of watching my Celtics faithfully every year. I will never acknowledge this Lakers title or their 2002 one. Ask me how many titles they have and I will answer 14.
In 27 years, I have never, EVER felt this cheated in any walk of life. Everywhere you turn, people are talking about it. I checked countless forums, facebook, and even yahoo answers last night. Every other question is about the refs and the fact that this game was fixed. I guess it is comforting to know that people all over the country are just as outraged and that somewhere... 3,000 miles away... there are millions of people in Sacremento who truly understand.
THE NBA: WHERE FIXED CHAMPIONSHIPS HAPPEN
The Fakers. It's not exactly a clever nickname but it couldn't be more fitting really could it? Fake people, fake fans, fake city full of fake boobs, a fake team in a fake league run by a fake commissioner, and most importantly, fake championships.
With that said, here my exact words entering the 4th quarter:
"The refs are actually calling this game even right now. There's been maybe 1 or 2 bad calls either way"
Given what happened, it's amazing that I actually made this statement. But should we really be surprised?
Flashback to January. LA at Boston. Boston up by 1. Seconds to play. Pierce goes to his step back shot but has a hand on Artest as he stops a la Michael Jordan on Bryon Russell. Money and the foul. C's up 3 and will win. Oh wait.. why is Artest in the 3rd row? Huh? The foul was on Pierce. I recently watched this game deciding call on YouTube and it was an even more putrid call than I remember. Artest deserves an emmy for that flop and the ref deserves to be executed for calling it.
Now let's go back to game 7. I had just made my bold statement. C's were up 6 I believe. Gasol takes a jump shot with Glenn Davis in his face. There is no contact. Swish and one. Ugh, AWFUL call. Ok, no big deal. It's just one bad call right? Kobe has the ball behind the 3 point line with Allen defending. Kobe does the move where a player tries to get a foul because Allen's right hand was in the air over Kobe's arm. Foul. 3 shots. Are you fucking kidding me? They call that? In this game?
After everything they've let go? Artest shoulder tackle into Pierce and banks it in. Foul. What the FUCK is going on? And now here it comes...
With 4 minutes left in the 4th quarter, Llama Gasol had the ball on the baseline and was being guarded by KG. KG put his arms in the fetal position and turned his side to Gasol as Gasol rose up over him and missed a shot. Foul.
It was with this shot that game 7 was decided. Not because LA had the lead. Not because it was a great shot. No. It was because that call was the 4th awful, attrocious call in a row that favored the Lakers. In a game where players were ripping each others heads off for 3 quarters, suddenly standing next to a player was enough to committ a foul - as long as you were wearing green while standing there.
At that point, I realized the Celtics would not be allowed to win this game. I refused to watch another second of this debacle. With 4 minutes left, I simply walked outside and waited until the game ended. Yep, you read that right and many friends can confirm it. I absolutely, positively refused to watch anymore of a game that was so obviously fixed. I almost went back in once but was told a 100% clean block on Kobe Bryant had been called a foul.
What is even more mind boggling about all of this is that the Lakers were taking jump shots. They weren't being aggressive. 3 of the 4 rotten fouls I named above were JUMP SHOTS!!!!
For 3 quarters, these teams played the same way. Tough defense and desparate, bad offense. Not one thing changed in the 4th quarter and yet take a look at the Free Throw numbers.
1st - 3rd Quarter: LA 14, Boston 11 (rough average of 5/Quarter & 3.7/Quarter)
4th Quarter: LA 23, Boston 6
These numbers are staggering. 23 to 6 in the 4th versus 14 to 11 for the first 3 quarters. Any rational, respectable, human being with half an ounce of common sense can absolutely agree that that reeks of fix. Had Jack Nicholson been officiating, there would've been less foul calls on the Celtics. Yet despite not changing their style of play one bit, the Lakers received more than QUADRUPLE the FT'S in the 4th quarter as they did in any other quarter.
What I want to know is why? I want to find David Stern and beat this information out of him. Why Stern? Why fix this game?
How could you do this to all those diehard Celtic fans who poured their heart and soul into every game? Who lost sleep every night before a game and every night after a loss? To hand another title to the arrogant, bandwagon, cocky, undeserving, condescending, assholes that are the LA Lakers is despicable.
Now hard working, good guys like KG, Paul Pierce, and Ray Allen will end their competitive careers as losers while evil, whiny, arrogant pricks like Phil Jackson, Kobe Bryant, and Derek Fisher walk out as winners? Whatever happened to good things happen to good people?
What's worse is that most of their faggot fans are so busy sucking Kobe's dick that they won't admit that any of their titles were fixed. ARE YOU FUCKING BLIND? 23 FTs to 6?? SIX!!! Sound familiar Kings fans? Until your team is on the wrong end of a fix, you'll never know how it feels. I always thought I understood what happened to the 2002 Kings. I was wrong. It wasn't
until last night that I finally got it.
I will never again watch a live NBA game. I will always secretly root for the Celtics and against the Lakers but I will not watch. This is after 23 years of watching my Celtics faithfully every year. I will never acknowledge this Lakers title or their 2002 one. Ask me how many titles they have and I will answer 14.
In 27 years, I have never, EVER felt this cheated in any walk of life. Everywhere you turn, people are talking about it. I checked countless forums, facebook, and even yahoo answers last night. Every other question is about the refs and the fact that this game was fixed. I guess it is comforting to know that people all over the country are just as outraged and that somewhere... 3,000 miles away... there are millions of people in Sacremento who truly understand.
Thursday, June 3, 2010
NBA Finals and more random thoughts
Warning: I'm pretty jacked up for tonight's game so everything written below has a bunch of swears and foul language... if this offends you, too fuckin' bad :)
The NBA Finals kick off tonight after another ridiculous 76 day lay off. Hopefully by August the season will be wrapped up... here's a list of some random thoughts and opinions to help ya kill a little time at work.
- The 2-3-2 playoff format really ought to go away in all sports, and especially in basketball where home court means more. I could argue that the road team has a tougher challenge to wrap things up at home since game 5 is at home instead of game 6 but then again eff the road team, how about you earn home court advantage. Instead I'll steal this directly from Larry Bird, the home team *should* play game 5 at their place. This is often a tremendously important game that can tip a series in one team's favor. It's stupid that this game is played by the team with the worse win/loss record. All NBA series up to this point follow the much better 2-2-1-1-1 format. From what I understand the reasoning is for the national media to travel less. If I were David Stern I'd hold a press conference announcing the cancellation of the 2-3-2 format. When the first whiny ass media member stated to me that this isn't fair for them, I'd pause, cough gently, clear my throat for a solid 30 seconds then calmly say, too fucking bad you pussy... then walk away.
- I was watching a show on the 1960's Boston Celtics and really I couldn't be more impressed. You look back and see 11 titles in 13 years and you just figure, well they had the best team and players therefore back then you just plow through the competition. However the Celtics didn't always have the best record in their own division. They twice finished 2nd and in 1969 finished 4th. During this time frame though the Celtics went a perfect 9-0 in Game 7's. SICK
Just about every season in this run they had to go through Wilt Chamberlain the most dominant scorer in NBA history.
The best moment to me is in this clip after the 1969 NBA Championship: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j26xl9HP758
If you skip to the 7:06 mark you can see abc's interview with Bill Russell. You can tell the man poured his guts out as he's at a loss for words to start the interview. This was Russell's final game and just hearing him speak I can't see how any teammate wouldn't want to run through a brick wall for the man.
I rescind my Lakers post as the greatest dynasty in NBA history!!!!
- Just kidding about the last remark, it's definitely a very open debate. I thought of a point that I missed in my write up....
Basically everyone (especially in this area) has to realize the question is NOT who has had the better of the Celtics-Lakers rivalry. We know this answer, but instead which team has had the most success in franchise history....
always think of the good stuff afterward, oh well
- Turning my attention to a few things in baseball that piss me off....
1. Jim Joyce - I won't beat this to death, just call the guy out, a fucking perfect game trumps you trying to call a close play safe. It's not about you ya tard. You shouldn't have had to even apologize, just call him out to begin with.
2. Bud Selig - Not overturning the call... pretty good decision (thick sarcasm)... baseball is so gay, I hate hate hate hate the stupid purist bull shit.... Pitchers hitting is worse than watching nascar, the lack of replay is unacceptable, the lack of accountability in the steroid era both in the game and in the media is a joke... I still love the game but I kind of feel until I have kids of my own who start playing little league or softball, baseball may slide down and stay at #3 or #4 on my sports radar...
3. I heard Bobby Valentine on ESPN boasting about the wonderful parity in the MLB. Which is fine, he's right a lot of teams are doing really well. He then pointed out that the last 5 world series champs have been different (White Sox, Cardinals, Red Sox, Phillies, Yankees)... sure that's great
Then the dink says well the NFL has the same teams every year... pauses... except the Saints last year....
Well, Mr. Valentine ... The year before we had the Cardinals in the SB for the first time ever, 2 years before that the Bears and Colts for the first time in a trillion years, the year before that the Seahawks for the first time, the year before that the Eagles for the first time in forever, the year before that the Panthers for the first time ever, the year before that the Bucs for the first time ever and Raiders first time in forever, 2 years before that the Ravens first time ever, year before that Titans first time ever and Rams first in a while, year before that Falcons first time ever....
As a matter of fact here are the NFC Champs going backwards... I'll stop once the same team has been there on my list 3 times... Saints, Cardinals, Giants, Bears, Seahawks, Eagles, Panthers, Bucs, Rams, Giants (there's 2), Rams (2), Falcons, Packers, Packers (2), Cowboys, 49ers, Cowboys (2), Cowboys (3).... 18 years it takes and 13 diff teams played in the SB
Translation... shaddup Bobby
- I guess it's always relative but man right now the Lakers are so far #1 in my team hatenicity it isn't even funny... then again football is about 3 months away... the Colts will probably reclaim this spot... as for the Yankees - read above, baseball is fading mcgee in my mind
- My prediction for the finals is the Celtics will win in 6... the Lakers are still a soft, fruity, snively, showtime wannabe, lame ass, oooh look at us we are a celeb team... I don't want to hear about how they dismantled the big bad tough Suns or the Jazz...
And if I'm wrong... Nagle... I will come back here and write a big long post about how horribly wrong I was and how great the Lakers are... I don't expect to write anything, go celts!
The NBA Finals kick off tonight after another ridiculous 76 day lay off. Hopefully by August the season will be wrapped up... here's a list of some random thoughts and opinions to help ya kill a little time at work.
- The 2-3-2 playoff format really ought to go away in all sports, and especially in basketball where home court means more. I could argue that the road team has a tougher challenge to wrap things up at home since game 5 is at home instead of game 6 but then again eff the road team, how about you earn home court advantage. Instead I'll steal this directly from Larry Bird, the home team *should* play game 5 at their place. This is often a tremendously important game that can tip a series in one team's favor. It's stupid that this game is played by the team with the worse win/loss record. All NBA series up to this point follow the much better 2-2-1-1-1 format. From what I understand the reasoning is for the national media to travel less. If I were David Stern I'd hold a press conference announcing the cancellation of the 2-3-2 format. When the first whiny ass media member stated to me that this isn't fair for them, I'd pause, cough gently, clear my throat for a solid 30 seconds then calmly say, too fucking bad you pussy... then walk away.
- I was watching a show on the 1960's Boston Celtics and really I couldn't be more impressed. You look back and see 11 titles in 13 years and you just figure, well they had the best team and players therefore back then you just plow through the competition. However the Celtics didn't always have the best record in their own division. They twice finished 2nd and in 1969 finished 4th. During this time frame though the Celtics went a perfect 9-0 in Game 7's. SICK
Just about every season in this run they had to go through Wilt Chamberlain the most dominant scorer in NBA history.
The best moment to me is in this clip after the 1969 NBA Championship: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j26xl9HP758
If you skip to the 7:06 mark you can see abc's interview with Bill Russell. You can tell the man poured his guts out as he's at a loss for words to start the interview. This was Russell's final game and just hearing him speak I can't see how any teammate wouldn't want to run through a brick wall for the man.
I rescind my Lakers post as the greatest dynasty in NBA history!!!!
- Just kidding about the last remark, it's definitely a very open debate. I thought of a point that I missed in my write up....
Basically everyone (especially in this area) has to realize the question is NOT who has had the better of the Celtics-Lakers rivalry. We know this answer, but instead which team has had the most success in franchise history....
always think of the good stuff afterward, oh well
- Turning my attention to a few things in baseball that piss me off....
1. Jim Joyce - I won't beat this to death, just call the guy out, a fucking perfect game trumps you trying to call a close play safe. It's not about you ya tard. You shouldn't have had to even apologize, just call him out to begin with.
2. Bud Selig - Not overturning the call... pretty good decision (thick sarcasm)... baseball is so gay, I hate hate hate hate the stupid purist bull shit.... Pitchers hitting is worse than watching nascar, the lack of replay is unacceptable, the lack of accountability in the steroid era both in the game and in the media is a joke... I still love the game but I kind of feel until I have kids of my own who start playing little league or softball, baseball may slide down and stay at #3 or #4 on my sports radar...
3. I heard Bobby Valentine on ESPN boasting about the wonderful parity in the MLB. Which is fine, he's right a lot of teams are doing really well. He then pointed out that the last 5 world series champs have been different (White Sox, Cardinals, Red Sox, Phillies, Yankees)... sure that's great
Then the dink says well the NFL has the same teams every year... pauses... except the Saints last year....
Well, Mr. Valentine
As a matter of fact here are the NFC Champs going backwards... I'll stop once the same team has been there on my list 3 times... Saints, Cardinals, Giants, Bears, Seahawks, Eagles, Panthers, Bucs, Rams, Giants (there's 2), Rams (2), Falcons, Packers, Packers (2), Cowboys, 49ers, Cowboys (2), Cowboys (3).... 18 years it takes and 13 diff teams played in the SB
Translation... shaddup Bobby
- I guess it's always relative but man right now the Lakers are so far #1 in my team hatenicity it isn't even funny... then again football is about 3 months away... the Colts will probably reclaim this spot... as for the Yankees - read above, baseball is fading mcgee in my mind
- My prediction for the finals is the Celtics will win in 6... the Lakers are still a soft, fruity, snively, showtime wannabe, lame ass, oooh look at us we are a celeb team... I don't want to hear about how they dismantled the big bad tough Suns or the Jazz...
And if I'm wrong... Nagle... I will come back here and write a big long post about how horribly wrong I was and how great the Lakers are... I don't expect to write anything, go celts!
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