Kobe's first free throw of the game >>7:28 mark of the FOURTH - His 27th and 28th points... LEGIT? *wanna hear from the purists

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People need to understand that Kobe is one of the most physical palyers in the game. he loves contact. Sure he wants the call but he puts his nose in there more than most bigs
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As for conspiracies?

Kobe makes more aggressive moves than almost anyone else in the league, and regularly gets more FTAs than most. Every NBA player who makes agressive moves will get fouled more than the less aggressive players, and more fouls will go un-called, partially by design. If they called every foul commited against the aggresive, elite players, the games would be unwatchable, and tediously long.

By and large, the officials do OK with foul calling, IMO, my gripe is with the other rules that go unenforced. Travelling, missed entirely too often, and not that hard to call.
Off hand clear-outs, give some fans the impression that moderately good players are better than they actually are...
Moving screens, 3 seconds, carrying the ball while dribbling, all go uncalled far too often.

At least this season they seem to be let flopping go without calling the phantom fake foul. Not completely, but better than past seasons.

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This is a nebulous thread = the Spurs themselves only shot 7 foul shots and Duncan and Parker were also getting flogged! Kobe did surely deserve some calls but it goes both ways.

Points in the paint were fairly close (LAL 48 and Spurs 44) so both teams were taking inside pretty well at times. (Mihm in particular made some nice moves)

It was equal opportunity = very bad officiating on both sides, both superstars (and Parker is also rapidly moving into that territority with his improving game) should have had at least half a dozen more FTs. That is if in fact, one believes in the premise of superstars calls - I would just like to see the games called better, the whole league has game after game of bad if not horrible, and seemingly biased officiating!

The NBA per a column I wrote recently for Hoopsworld free side (http://www.hoopsworld.com/article_16416.shtml) = has to take a look at the officiating, it has gotten sublime.

Bonus Rant - why do the NBA officials frequently continue to make nebulous "superstar" calls or call the game so differently for the home versus the road team on many occasions? It seems that even among legends like Dick Bavetta, Joey Crawford, and Jack Nies there are some issues that are not discussed openly enough about their consistentcy in making calls at least. At least in the case of at least the last two on this list, the NBA lead officials are in many fans views, seemingly intent on shaping the game or calling attention unto themselves rather than simply calling the game.

The "quick whistle thing" also needs examination, as the best referees control the situation with competence rather than quick ejections for often bizarre reasons. I personally am not also so judgemental of the job Violet Palmer (who probably gets alond with Crawford the most "hate" NBA diatribes on chatrooms) does on a night in an night basis; but on at least a few occassions this year (in my opinion) she has missed some critical calls in games.

The NBA is too good a league and the games too close to have an opinionated or dare I say, on a very rare occassion, have a potentially biased referee so influence the outcome of games, but sadly we hear all the time of teams "having to play through the officiating" or how games are seemingly "stolen" by the officials in one way or another from fans, players, owners (i.e. Mark Cuban), and even coaches.

The NBA players and coaches have enough with trying to beat the other team without trying to guage and interpret how or why the referees are calling the game on any particular night - so is it in fact time for a progessive summit by the NBA "headshed" about some of the referee situations/or at least perceptions for the good of the game?


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The game was called pretty fair overall.

Neither team was getting to the line and they let the bigs bang, which is what basketball is suppose to be like.

The only bad was how they let Bowen tap, grab and undercut Kobe.

You can't compare this to anyone else because no other defensive player on either team was doing this.
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Did you see how the minute Pop went off on the refs that the VERY NEXT play after the Time out the Lakers get an offensive foul call on them?

And Kobe's 0 FT's through 3 qtrs? It's not like he wasn't driving all game.

Even Lamar had like two and-1 plays that were ignored.

The flagarant was pure BS. Lamar had all ball and while contact was there (it was a foul) NOWAY was it a flagarant.

Top it of with that 3 pointer that they put up as a 2 -

I rarely go after the refs. Even the Detroit game I didn't think it was too bad. But last night it was just aggravating. I haven't been that pissed at the refs in years. I felt like smashing my TV. I was beyond pissed at them last night.

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