Video: It Was Goaltending, But Who Cares?

From a legal standpoint the fact that Pau Gasol goaltended is moot because the goaltend would have never occurred if the clock was started on time because time would have expired before andy goaltend took place. Thats all I’m saying…

The Seed: what you said is technically right, but if they had beaten the Spurs that year (they had a chance, Amare and Nash were obliteratign the Spurs, they had no answer, and Duncan was in a slump the entire series) who would they play… a sucky Jazz team that only advanced to the conference finals because they played the WARRIORS, and then an even worse Cavaliers team. That’s trophy-time baby.
But back then, the excuse was that the nba COULDN’T BREAK THE RULES, no MATTER WHAT!
So why now is the NBA bending them like they were silly putty?

goaltending?!?!
you guys are crazy! he went up for the block and just scratched the rim… nothing to call… rim didn’t even moved a bit.
ppl saying about Lee, but Turko’s passa wasn’t that great… the kid grabbed it already under the board and had to adjust himself to it.
he could have done it… missed it… ok.
funny to say that this should be a goaltending in the same match as one of the WORST call ever!
if somebody does what dwight did, blocking a shot from INSIDE the rim on my pickup games… we would throw him out cause he would be disturbing the game…
in the nba, 3 referees, and nobody saw it.
great fu(k up.

This wasn’t even a goaltending. Just read the damn rules, they’re on the internet.

i’m getting so sick of this sh*t. kobe honestly feels that if he drives the lane and doesn’t score, he should ALWAYS be going to the line. if the ref doesn’t blow the whistle, whether there was a foul or not, you can guarantee that 24 is gonna act like an arm-flapping, whiny b*tch. has anyone ever in the NBA had this much talent and acted like so much of a spoiled prince? two of the “fouls” called on pietrus and then turkoglu in the last five minutes were HORRIBLE. F Kobe. F the Lakers.

Sorry I’m late today, but it needs to be said that if this situation is reversed and it was a Lakers players’ shot that was in question, two things would have happened 1) the internets would have ended about 4 seconds after the play happened from the tears of rage that would have come through in the terse words typed out and 2) SLAM would have ceased to exist in it’s current form as the epicenter of jackass basketball fans worldwide. Only one of those would have been bad.

ha meloman i was thinking exactly the same thing last night.

Two wrongs dont make a right. But honestly I dont think the officials saw the goaltending either times.

To me the refs arent bein biased. It looks as if theyre makin the right calls to me.

The only solace I have from a Lakers championship is that Eboy may kill himself, and Slam will be a more intelligent place.

cosign Jukai

Nah, Jukai, your team commited basketball suicide the day they signed Steve Nash, so I can always take solace in the fact you’ve rooted for a true basketball pu*sy for the last 5 years or so.

maybe when the hysteria dies down, we might realize that some interesting things happened last night. for eg.: 1) lewis’ hot hand forced the lakers to change their defensive strategy, which opened up turkoglu, which got the magic on track again offensively )and 2) the magic have slowed kobe down, at least temporarily. all this goes to say… i wouldn’t write the magic off until they actually lose a game at home

See, like right there, I don’t know why it took you 10 minutes to type that response.

My only question is should players be able to just throw the ball off the backboard and then if there is incidental contact with the rim or the backboard get two points for it?

A follow up question, if dwight howard was quicker to the rim on that play and his hand grazed the rim does he get called for offensive basket interference? I think the answer is no , reason being the ball was a mile off the rim and therefore pau hitting his pinky on the rim in no way affected the trajectory of the ball. No goal tend.

Goaltend did not decide the game, Defensive adjustments by the Lakers ablity to slow down Howard changed the game. Howard really has no offesnive moves, great teaching pat.

if the shoe was on the other foot, all Laker fans in the world would have simultaneous heart attacks while copying Kobe’s “i”m so pissed I’m gonna smack a chair at the end of regulation” routine…but since the knife missed the jugular, now nobody should give a fcuk, right?

lee didnt blow that shot. that was just a hard shot. don’t be an idiot….

Sure Lee missed the alley oop with .6 of a second remaining,but the Magic lost in OT. The better team won. At least ORL made it interesting. LA in 4.

#1 How is this format of 20303 homecourt for the Lakers? #2 I’m watiching these Finals as strictly a fan of the game w/ no preference of a winner. #3 You can not equate a non call in the 1st qtr with a non call with .06 left in the 4th qtr. #4 Every player cries about a call even when they know they weren’t hit inorder to get a call later. #5 You can’t compare the number of calls the teams get overall you have to break it down by qtr and who was aggressive. #6 Great play call at the end, it wasn’t on the coach.

I hope no one thinks I’m knocking lee or saying it wasn’t a tough shot cause I don’t mean to come off like that in the least. I’m just saying when pau grazed the rim the shot was already decidely not going in.

Magic in 5.

I think EVERYONE is grossly understating the 3 games in Orlando. The Magic are going to pretty solid and it’s quite possible by the end of the week all this hysteria will have died down tremendously. If this was a 2-2-1-1-1 series, I’d say the Lakers would close it in 6, but with this format? The Lakers held serve. That’s all they did.