Selling Fouls?
When is a no-call a bad call?
When the Lakers' Derek Fisher clearly bumped the Spurs' Brent Barry on Barry's last-second shot last night, official Joey Crawford didn't call a foul.
Conspiracy? Not so, writes the Post's Michael Lee: Why wasn't the foul called? Because Barry didn't sell it well enough. Officials don't make calls in the final seconds unless their hand is forced.
Wizards Insider readers aren't buying it:
Confused: Okay so one minute we get on NBA players (Ginobili) for constant flopping, then in turn say that Barry didn't "sell" the foul well enough? Yes, the NBA is slowly becoming the WWE. Scripted.
From left: Tim Duncan, Joey Crawford and Kobe Bryant.Bart: So it was a foul but the player didn't sell it hard enough? Oh please! So now the rule is players have to SELL fouls? Give me a break! If the fix is not in, the NBA really goes well out of its way to make it look like it. Of all the available refs, why Joey Crawford?
Joey Crawford: You wanna fight me?
By Lindsay Applebaum |
May 28, 2008; 2:57 PM ET
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Posted by: Dadryan | May 28, 2008 9:33 PM
Bones was killer with the meds and could talk some serious trash (especially to Spock), but he had no J and couldn't drive the lane.
Sulu, on the other hand, had mad ball-handling skillz.
Posted by: Anonymous | May 29, 2008 1:13 AM
And yet a ticky-tack swipe on a breakaway layup is almost always called a foul.
Sounds like that cheating ref, Donahey or whatever, is alive and well in the boreball association.
Posted by: marksman | May 29, 2008 3:51 PM
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The NBA is a joke. Basketball is a bore. Takes too long in the end.
I was a fan at one point. My old lady andI used to go to lots of Sonics games and Bones was one of our faves. The Glove, Big Smooth. The Hawk. Shawn Kemp!
Too bad those days are over out in the great pacific northwest...
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