Ep. 486: Cry Foul from The Basketball Jones on Vimeo.
Brew Hoop does the necessary work in pointing out that the Bucks did, technically, miss many opportunities to put the best team in the NBA away, but that sort of mature view, placing the responsibility on the players, is just a bullshit fairy tale when you're playing against the Lakers at home. They don't need the help!
The Yahoo guys focus on the most egregiously bad call in the game, but there were many others. Just horribly officiated, but the Bucks hung in there and are still making this a very enjoyable season and making me glad that I decided to follow the NBA again. Here's Brew Hoop detailing the rest of the officiating -
The game officials (Joe Forte, Marc Davis, Phil Robinson) didn't wear Kobe jerseys themselves, but from start to finish they favored the Lakers. They were bad enough to make some calls that went in Milwaukee's favor too, but even if the score was tied after 48 minutes, nothing really evened out tonight.
The Lakers got the 50/50 calls, sure, but they also got 60-40 calls, 100/0 calls.
Just not good. The worst at the Bradley Center this season, and I've only missed a couple.
There are myriad specific instances, like when Bogut felt the slap heard 'round press row. No call. Or when Kobe got that and-one call on Bogut to bring the Lakers within one in overtime. You remember, the one when he may have traveled, may have charged, and definitely didn't get fouled.
"I don't think it was a foul on Bogut, or whoever they called the foul on. But he's (Bryant) a great player and he's going to get the benefit of the doubt," Charlie Bell said.
Nobody thought it was a foul on Bogut, except the onlybody who matters.
To make matters worse, Los Angeles felt entitled to get calls, you could see that, and despite the foul disparity in their favor, they still griped; both Ron Artest and Lamar Odom picked up technicals for dissent, and at (at least) one point Bryant gave the official the stare-down all the way down the court.
The refs were applauded a few times tonight. Sarcastically, by the crowd.
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