Originally Posted by ThurgreedMarshall (Post 426637)

Can someone please explain to me why all these assholes writhe around in the grass in what is so obviously fake agony? Is it because it takes a while for the ref to decide whether to give a yellow or red card? It's fucking ridiculous.

TM

Originally Posted by ThurgreedMarshall (Post 426637)

Can someone please explain to me why all these assholes writhe around in the grass in what is so obviously fake agony? Is it because it takes a while for the ref to decide whether to give a yellow or red card? It's fucking ridiculous.

Originally Posted by ThurgreedMarshall (Post 426641)

Exciting game. Does anyone know why our third goal was disallowed? They seemed to say the ref didn't indicate offsides, but instead said there was a foul. The only foul I saw seemed to be on the other team. Did I miss something? Anyone?

Maybe the ref just sucked. The call he made on our guy that resulted in a yellow card (presumably a hand (or arm?) ball) was atrocious. The ball clearly hit our guy in the face. And now he has to miss the next game? Is there any chance they will review that and overturn it?

TM

Originally Posted by ThurgreedMarshall (Post 426641)

Exciting game. Does anyone know why our third goal was disallowed? They seemed to say the ref didn't indicate offsides, but instead said there was a foul. The only foul I saw seemed to be on the other team. Did I miss something? Anyone?

Maybe the ref just sucked. The call he made on our guy that resulted in a yellow card (presumably a hand (or arm?) ball) was atrocious. The ball clearly hit our guy in the face. And now he has to miss the next game? Is there any chance they will review that and overturn it?

TM

Originally Posted by ThurgreedMarshall (Post 426641)

Exciting game. Does anyone know why our third goal was disallowed? They seemed to say the ref didn't indicate offsides, but instead said there was a foul. The only foul I saw seemed to be on the other team. Did I miss something? Anyone?

Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski (Post 426642)

the guy who scored/(didn't score) doesn't know, so no one here can help

have there been allegations about political bias in the world Cup with the refs, the way there has been in olympic judging/reffing?

Originally Posted by ThurgreedMarshall (Post 426641)

Exciting game. Does anyone know why our third goal was disallowed? They seemed to say the ref didn't indicate offsides, but instead said there was a foul. The only foul I saw seemed to be on the other team. Did I miss something? Anyone?

Maybe the ref just sucked. The call he made on our guy that resulted in a yellow card (presumably a hand (or arm?) ball) was atrocious. The ball clearly hit our guy in the face. And now he has to miss the next game? Is there any chance they will review that and overturn it?

Originally Posted by ThurgreedMarshall (Post 426633)

You are absolutely right. That's why the call was invented. The whole "trying to draw a foul" phenomenon, which Kobe and Paul Pierce have taken to absurd levels, is a fucking embarrassment.*

My favorite part of the game was when Kobe was guarding Ray Allen near the end of the game. Allen tried to go down to the block to set Kobe up for a pick. Kobe grabbed him. He tried to come back out to receive the ball, Kobe pushed him and then grabbed him. When Allen finally got the ball and made his move to the basket, Kobe fucking hammered him--raked him across both arms right before he jumped and then let him jump. The ref blew the whistle and Kobe was furious, throwing up his arms in disbelief and then getting in the refs face to say that he never even touched him with such passion and anger that I actually believe that he believed he wasn't completely fucking lying.

I can't stand that guy. He's a piece of shit.

It might have been worth it to have the Lakers win, though, if only for the fact that Artest thanked his psychiatrist in his on-court, post-game interview.

TM

*eta: I think this word should be spelled with one 'r.'

Originally Posted by Gattigap (Post 426648)

So a random basketball play-by-play question. I listened to parts of the Finals on the radio, and the play-by-play guy kept referring to a player "turning at the elbow" or "heading to the elbow and shooting" as if the elbow were a reference to a spot on the floor. Assuming that's so, where is that spot?

Originally Posted by Adder (Post 426650)

Where the 3s are:
http://www.jes-soft.com/playbook/fig...ourtzone_1.gif

ETA: Or in video (she's got some issues, but gets the elbow right): http://www.ehow.com/video_2355064_ov...-markings.html

Originally Posted by Cletus Miller (Post 426651)

The 3s are both on the same side of the court. In that pic its the 2/3 at the top of the lane not the 2/3 out beyond the arc.

Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski (Post 426653)

it seems like these games are all being played in one spot. in the past they were spread across several cities. why the change? it seems like this will kill the turf soon.

Originally Posted by LessinSF (Post 426647)

And you give me shit for (correctly) commenting that the NBA is corrupt, unwatchable, and basically an abomination that causes shitheads to kill each other over shoes.