Boston took 38 free throw attempts compared to the Lakers 10 last night. 38-10, you have got to be kidding me? There is no way a game should be that unbalanced especially when people talk about Boston's great defense that plays physical and all that othet stuff that the Boston D gets praised for. I already know that Boston fans will say the officiating was fine, but you can not convince me that a team is able to play tough physical defense without committing a foul? It just doesn't add up. Honestly, besides the technical free throw the Lakers get one free throw attempt in the first half???? WOW. Lean Powe got more free throw attempts that the Lakers!!!!!!
As a Laker fan, you obviously have a short memory. The Utah Jazz were 2nd in the league during the regular season in total Free Throw attempts. (behind the Nuggets, while your Lakers were 5th.) Do you know what the Free Throw attempts in that series were? Let me break it down for you:
Game 1: 46 - 30 Lakers + 16
Game 2: 43 - 16 Lakers + 27 (hmmm...interesting)
Game 3: 37 - 28 Lakers + 9
Game 4: 45 - 25 Lakers - 20
Game 5: 42 - 28 Lakers + 14
Game 6: 38 - 25 Lakers + 13
In total, a + 59 FT advantage in 6 games for your Lakers, and that included a -20 night in which your Lakers didn't show up. Right now the Celtics enjoy a +35 FT advantage, and I guarantee you after 6 games in this series, they will not sniff the +59 FT advantage your Lakers held over the Jazz.
Another thing, your numbers dont add up maybe you could make your breakdown a little more understandable. The celts already have more than half the fouls in favor of them and its only games 2. Try again I didnt ever see the Lakers having 28 more throws than any team we faced for 1 game. This from a smothering D that dont foul, how do you play physical and not foul?
He is talking differential. I think he is saying that after the Lakers get the homecourt calls in LA the differential will go down.
You may not have had a 28 point advantage, but you did have a 27 point advantage if his numbers are correct. And out of 6 games, the Lakers had a substantial advantage in 5 of them.
That is a pretty hefty differential, even if the Jazz was the highest penalized team.
And I distinctly remember Lakers' fans on this site telling Jazz fans to quit being crybabies and to quit blaming the refs.
They explained how the Lakers got the calls because they were more aggressive. They said how the Jazz defense was weak because they could not defend without fouling.
They made statements like "bad calls were made for both teams, it all evens out in the end, and the best team always wins in a seven game series."
If the situation reverses itself in LA, the Boston fans will be the ones crying and the LA fans will be saying the same things again.
It all comes down to your perspective.
Blaming the refs is an age old refuge of the loser. It happens after every game. The losers cry about the refs and the winners call them crybabies.
The fans of every team do it.
And the losers always proclaim the game to be the worst officiated game or of the series, or the season, or even that they have ever seen.
I jsut want to point out that I am not a Laker fan. I jsut don't understand how a team can play physical defense without hardly any fouls. You can either play somewhat loose defense and not allow the team to get to the line, but possibly have a high shooting percentage, OR you can play physical and reduce field goal percentage, but increase free throw attempts.
The Celtics were able to do both last night and it doesn't add up. Playing physical hard- nosed defense SHOULD result in some free throw attempts. Plain and simple.
Honestly, Powe got more free throw attempts in 14 minutes than the Lakers got in 48. That is ridiculous.
That Jazz-Lakers game you mention is the 3rd place this year in free throw disparity at just under 2.7 times more free throws that the Lakers got than the Jazz.
2nd goes to the Mavericks over the Hornets with 2.9 times more in their win.
That's still a long way from 3.8 times more, in a six point game.
By the way, the discrepancy is +35 for the Celtics in just 2 games, after they were -95 in the 20 games against the Hawks, Cavs, and Pistons...
Spurcse,
Even the infamous game 5 of the 2006 finals where the Heat got 24 more fts than the Mavs was less than 2X free throw differential (1.96), and this is the 1st time I can remember seeing >3X differential.
Nothing to do with perspective, everything to do with bias.
Last edited by nba is the worst on June 10th at 6:31 AM.
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