Re: Before I read anything...

Diane B wrote:
> theBZA wrote:
>> Gary Collard <dm@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in
>> news:kiC%j.14113$ED6.12333@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>> I hope that everybody can agree that each team got screwed out of
>>> two free throw attempts in the final seconds due to bad calls, as
>>> that is pretty clearly what happened.
>>>
>>> Any Lakers fan/Spurs hater who will not admit that Fisher fouled
>>> Barry and that he should not have thus gotten two free throws:
>>> dishonest, classless.
>>>
>>>
>> I think every Laker fan here has acknowledged there was contact.
>> Whether it rose to the level of a foul, that's an honest debate. And
>> you studiously avoid mentioning the travelling violation? Why? Do
>> you get some sort of elitist satisfaction at pretending to be so
>> impartial that you can say "both teams got screwed"?
>>
>>
>>> Any Spurs fan/Lakers hater who will not admit that Fisher's shot hit
>>> the rim and thus the shot clock has to be reset, the Spurs have to
>>> intentionally foul Kobe, and that he should have thus gotten two
>>> free throws: dishonest, classless.
>>>
>>> And in conclusion, anybody who will not admit that the outcome of
>>> the game would have been the same* had the last few seconds been
>>> officiated correctly: dishonest, classless.
>>>
>>> There, that will save me a lot of time slapping down idiots over and
>>> over with variations of the same post.
>>>
>>>
>> Preemtive name calling. Classy.
>>
>>
>>
>>> *Technically, the Spurs would have had roughly a 1 in 55 chance of
>>> getting to overtime and thus roughly a 1 in 110 chance of winning
>>> the game.
>>>
>>>
>> You are assuming that OT is a 50-50 outcome. It isn't.
>>
>>
>
> Don't know where you came up with the 1 in 55 chance of overtime - it
> would have been Brent Barry shooting two and he is usually over 80%.

He is talking about if the clock had reset and Fisher or Kobe are shooting

FTs to make it a 3 or 4 pt lead.