I know it's cool to hate on the NBA, but I do think it would be much more watchable with better officiating. Throwing yourself into a defensive player is not a foul on the defender. Neither is it a shooting foul when a guy puts his arms underneath another player's arms and then lifts his own arms up and then tosses the ball in the direction of the rim. I don't really blame players for this crap, because they wouldn't do it if the refs wouldn't continually bail them out. Also pretty funny for all the hullabaloo over Boston grabbing the #1 seed, they went and lost both home games to a pretty crappy Chicago Bulls squad.
Tough break for the Jazz but that was absolutely the right call. Diaw was not shooting when the foul was committed.
Crafty move by Isaiah Thomas - when falling over, pull the other guy down on top of you so it looks like he tackled you, and get a foul called on him.
Holy crap, somebody mixed some Clumsification Pills in the Spurs' gatorade. Never seen so many unforced flubs while attempting a simple pass, dribble, open layup, etc.
Good move by Popovich to put Leonard on Harden for so much of the game, and to have whoever Harden was guarding take it at the rim (never seen Danny Green drive so much).
No way I thought the spurs would win going away. Dantoni had lost the team, apparently. I knew Pop was the better coach, but this was a Houston meltdown of massive proportion.
Yeah, cool, 20% of the starters in the East Finals also played at UT Austin. Hook 'em! P.S., and looking forward, since each of the 4 teams standing start one Longhorn each, this year's NBA Finals will feature starting lineups of which 20% played at UT Austin, and this year's NBA Champion will feature one Longhorn as a starter, no matter who wins.
Yeah, I'm ok with that. Although San Antonio fans, and especially Boston fans might disagree with us.
San Antonio was in at least a decent position to do something about that until Zaza happened. At least karma got him back next game, small consolation though that is.
Spurs playing pretty well here but Golden State having the 4 most talented guys plus the Spurs being down three players is starting to show.
Cleveland's defense in the first 2 games has been nothing short of putrid. It's as if they think this is an All-Star game. Golden State is literally running the Cavs out of the arena.