Spurs-Thunder, Game Two. This one folks'll be talking about for years to come. Commentator Chris Webber rants away about the 'foul' on Waiters but I suggest if the refs blow the whistle there, they call a technical foul on Ginobli, which they don't want to do which is why they let it play. That said, the Spurs had plenty of opportunities to score and they had a time out, they could've backed out of that play at any moment and reset. Personally, I don't have a problem with the refs on this play. It would've been weird no matter what happened, this way the refs can say the let the players play.
Kyle Lowry had a great season for the Raptors but did something to his elbow late in the season and hasn't been the same since. But in Game One against the Heat, he wills the Raptors to a comeback...but they still lost. This series is gonna be so weird: in round one the Heat annihilated the Hornets in games One, Two and Seven and utterly floundered around with no consistency in the other 4 games. Lowry is way off his game but he can still do stuff like this. This series is gonna be weird.
After the Cavs broke the record for made 3's in an NBA game (not just a playoff game, any game; that record isn't owned by Steph's Warriors but by Lebron's Cavs), commentator Charles Barkley suggested the Hawks needed to...well, cheap shot the Cavs. (I mean, isn't that what he's saying?) This was almost scandalous but we live in Donald Trump's America now so this kind of rhetoric doesn't even register any more. Personally I just think its the ramblings of an old guy from the old school that used to do things different back in his day. I grew up watching his day and I sorta know what he's talking about: they would've gotten mad, shoved each other a little bit, pretended to have a fight, refs would've busted in, fines would've been handed out....and then the better team would've dropkicked the worser team in the next game just like always (which, incidentally, is what happened in Game Three of this series).
....And leads to this: Teague with the frustration foul on Lebron late in Game Three. Watch Lebron: he plows into the audience, then you can see him think, 'Man, fuck Teague, I'm gonna kill that guy!' He rushes back onto the court then you can see him think, 'Oh damn, I almost crushed that guy's spine...better remember to send him an autographed picture or something.' Dangerous play by Teague, it happens, probably best not to make a big thing about it but he almost got the fan killed! Seems like this ought to be a bigger deal, especially in light of Barkley's comments. But, it won't be, Trump's America, yadda yadda yadda.
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