09 playoffs thread

Ed Hochuli misses one call and gets a demotion. Bennett Salvatore has made literally DOZENS of terrible calls and yet he's still out there. I just don't get it. This one was even worse than Dirk's touch on Dwyane Wade back in 2006.

Antoine Wright fall foul

sorry i know last one i swear, but cuban's juvenile frustration with the internet is too funny to not cut/paste:

On Twitter Moron patrol. Blocking venomous idiots. Shame twitter doesnt require real names. FB fan pages dont have same problem #fb about 3 hours ago from web

every cuban twitter and blog post should be required to contain "i sold a worthless company for $5b lol"

this guy im sayin has nothing to complain abt

about 3 hours ago from web http://www.louguzzi.com/beta/images/LogoGoldDollarSignRotating.gif

I would buy a company for five billion lols

http://www.nba.com/2009/news/05/09/spikelee.qa/index.html

Kobe Doin' Work also gives an unfiltered real-time look at the game, with a no-girls-raped running commentary by KB24 himself.

Kobe Doin' Work will be televised commercial free on Saturday, May 16, at 8 p.m. ET on ESPN/ESPN HD

"I think in years to come high school coaches, college coaches, maybe some pro coaches will use this thing for their players. I really believe that."

Actually really curious about this. Plus unprecedented access to Kobe's rapes. Wow the league really went all out on this one.

http://publicola.horsesass.org/files/spike-lee-as-mars.jpg

okay shane battier

ooommfg @ mutumbo + yao on the bench

this needs to become a reality show

this is weird

it will be tied by halftime

rockets are shooting 456% including aaron brooks just chucking shots at the rim

lol i love this series

if this goes 7 games they should just suspend all the starters and give us the brent barry/adam morrison showdown we've all been waiting for

OMG injury everyone on the rockets they become stronger

so amazing

[autotune] so amazing (20x) [/autotune]

wow brooks is ballin

this is insane

haa i luv this lil aaron brooks leprechaun

that catch and shoot is amazing in replay

lool rockets +29 after 3

god artest is an unconscionable chucker

omg just tuned in. wow rockets

artest 0-7 in 3s ??

yeah artest basically threw away game 3 by taking ridiculous jumpers in the last few minutes when houston still had a chance to catch up. the rest of his game is great tho - like he outrebouded pau today!

lol wtf euphemistic espn headline "pocket rocket explodes"

typical Laker lazy sunday afternoon performance.right from that turnover after the tipoff with Ariza carelessly throwing it away, i knew it was going to be a bad day. It's fucked when you know you can beat pretty much any team if you just play hard but decide not to.

not even 6 minutes in and this is one of the worst officiated games yet

lol how did i know joey crawford was there

god can't some genius come up with a way to officiate a basketball game? it's been a big problem in several tight series' this year -- seems worse than usual. And it's usually awful! There just has to be something better than this.

add a fourth official so you can have two in the corners and two near midcourt, give the lead ref power to stop and video review any call w/in certain parameters (end of shot clock etc) esp in the playoffs, let joey crawford and bennet salvatore retire. some of the younger guys like zarba seem better, but yeah, it's a hard game to officiate b/c it moves so fast and there are so many things to watch, but it should be better

i think part of the problem is also that the ref's union is like fuck u guys when it comes to changing things up.

didn't want to be the one to bring up shitty officiating but cosign on the above

i don't whats worse tonight the officiating or celtics defense

i hope kg spends all of halftime inside perk's ear

this is the game without stops

pierce has to find ray sooner

c's going to need threes if they're going to keep backing away from howard and trading baskets

im taking u to the hole barkley its amazing so amazing!

oh yesss

oh noooo

pierce's 4th

I think the best way to solve the referee situation is to give each and every player and coach a whistle. That way if a player or a player's coach feels that the player has been fouled/committed a foul, he may blow the whistle and the appropriate penalty may be assessed.

glen davis!

hack-a-davis strategy

wow perk draws a foul