I was getting sick of watching LeBron's stat line from the game scroll on the bottom of the Mavs OKC game and how none of the major media outlets were scrutinizing the officiating. Clearly we lost for more reasons than the officiating but it limits how aggressive a team can be without question.

I got to googling about LeBron's flop and I came across this Lakers forum. The posters on the thread were calling out the refs worse than even the Knicks fans were.

http://forums.lakersground.net/viewtopic.php?t=144925&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=25

It starts about half way down page 2 and continues for another 8 pages.

Although there wasn't much to feel good about yesterday, esp Shump, at least its somewhat validating to know its not just us Knicks fans who were in disbelief at the officiating.

Some of the posts that stick out-

defense wrote:
Hey guys Im going to do play by play

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Triumph wrote:
The Knicks should just not come out for the 2nd half in protest. That would be hilarious.

ODZ wrote:
I've seen some BS ref officiating in my life, but this is one of the biggest screwjobs I've ever seen.

Murdock wrote:
What's the point of New York even showing up at the half?

This is ridiculous.

I KNOW that Lakers fans wouldn't be cheering such an obvious screwjob of an opponent.

Miami is a disgrace to the league and sports in general.

RyderzDelight wrote:
Wow. Zebra's really coming out with some BS calls.

eureca wrote:
I think he had Shumpert on him and LBJ got a switch. The fact that everyone on the Knicks is in foul trouble off horrible calls doesn't give Woodson much options. If Carmelo is in foul trouble so he can't put him on Lebron.

Its sad because the Heat talent alone don't need help, but they are getting a lot of it. It might not even be that they want the Heat to win a finals series its that they have to make sure the Heat are in a finals series so that they get their tv ratings for every round including the finals. There's more quiet riggings and then there's the first half where the refs already put it away.

And watch the 2nd half they probably will give the Knicks random free throws so that it doesn't look as bad knowing that the Knicks won't win this one now.

dont_be_a_wuss wrote:
Chandler is learning the hard way, it's not OK to hit a woman.

lakergal16 wrote:
LeBron's signature fadeaway is his hairline.

loweyecue wrote:

Bonn1997 wrote:Sometimes the calls will favor one team. At least it happened in a game where it didn't matter. If it makes a difference in the outcomes of any of the remaining games, that would justify anger.

C'mon Bonn, how can the first game of the series not matter. You know the stats on how often teams that won't the first game go on to win the series. In many ways it's the most critical game of the series for setting tone. If we pull out Game 2 it will be a mini miracle. If not this series is over.

Whoever can't see this has a wrong view of last night. Our collective sould was CRUSHED that 2nd quarter. It was THAT horrible. I tell you, I've been a fan for long, but it something like this happens again, I'll quit on the NBA as it really has no use watching a rigged sport and the battle or ratings instead of true competitive basketball.

Knicksfan wrote:BS with that stupid bravado. I hate it when people simply used the cliched "don't blame the refs, blame yourself". Thats BS to simply throw everything that actually happened in the game away and blame yourself when at one point the FT differential was something crazy like 33 to miami, 7 to New York. Fans hate officiating and critizise them during the game, but yesterday was an aberration, the kind of game that really makes you think it was rigged. Just because it happened in the middle quarters and things unraveled after that doesn't mean the referees had no hand in that unraveling.

dont_be_a_wuss wrote:
Chandler is learning the hard way, it's not OK to hit a woman.

BasketballJones wrote:

Bonn1997 wrote:Whining about refs and momentum is what losing teams do. You want to stop the momentum? Don't shoot 3 for 15. The refs may have messed up 2% of the calls favoring the Heat. At what point do you put the responsibility on the players for the other 98%?

Please provide data, including sample size,. for this assertion.

loweyecue wrote:

Bonn1997 wrote:Whining about refs and momentum is what losing teams do. You want to stop the momentum? Don't shoot 3 for 15. The refs may have messed up 2% of the calls favoring the Heat. At what point do you put the responsibility on the players for the other 98%?

Yeah, we have to go through the Refs and the Heat to beat them. Dallas did it last year. I am not making excuses for the players but when the bias is so strong it's much harder to fight through it. That was a really lopsided game, but I do think the Refs impacted the outcome.