Ralph Nader and game 6

[Kelvin green]

My two cents

Even if you thought it was a poorly called game, so what?

There are poorly called games at every level. So we are going to have a congressional investigation into every poorly called game, and who the heck is going to determine it? Congress? they cant figure out their own jobs let alone a referees! Even if we concede it was a poorly called game does that mean there is a conspiracy to keep the Kings out of the championship? don't think so! The Jazz went to the finals two years in a row... There's a big market Heck the viewership of Utah, Nevada, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming dont rival the LA area and the Jazz beat LA. If you believe in ratings you would always have a NY/LA series ( whoops we have one so it must be true)

The refs made a few poor calls so what? I know there were turnovers, steals, missed FT's, missed shots, etc.
Refs do not detemine the outcome of the game. BTW look at the foul stats if the offciating was biased the count for the series would not have been 179-173 ( BTW it was 179 called on the Lakers)

Look at the Free throws made versus attempts for the 16 games the Kings played they shot 479 FT's ad made a whopping 355 . The Lakers shot 438 and made 314 ( BTW the Lakers opponents shot 445 FT's during the same 16 games... the Kings opponents shot only 414) The Kings shot 65 more FT's during their run than their opponents.

Go figure... The Lakers shot .730 in FT percentage and Kings shot .657. yep it was the refs fault that the Kings could not shoot 85% from the FT line, if they had who would be whining? Lakers fans. The Kings shot 42% from the field during the series while LA shot 45%

Ooh lets talk about bias. Dont hear anybosy whining that in game 2 the KINGs outshot the Lakers 38-25 from the line, game 3 it was 35 to 15, and in game 5 it was 33-23. Game six was when it was biased was 40-25.

Go figure the KINGS shot 204 FT's in the series and the Lakers shot 185, but the lakers outscored the Kings from the line 135-134. You think with an extra 19 FT's the Kings couldda scored more.. Did not happen

In the series the Lakers had 4 more turn overs...
The Kings had 52 steals to 46
The Lakers made 40 three pointers while the Kings made 32
During the series the Kings took 35 less shots that the Lakers and actually made 6 more, but obviously not when they needed to.

Game Six
The Lakers were 34-74 from the field yet the Kings were 38-92, whoops... Lakers must have taken higher percentage shots and that was all the refs fault. While I'm sure the refs made the Kings shoot their shots from 2o ft away.

I guess it was was Bavetta, Bernhardt, and Delaney's fault that the Kings shot 2-20 from three point range while the Lakers made 5 more and outscored them by 15 points from behind the arc. (I guess the Lakers dont always take it to the hole with Shaq) If the Kings played better perimeter defense and stopped just 2 three pointers, they would have won!

72 percent from the line is great now isnt it (18/25) If they had shot 88% it would have been a tie, but I'm sure the three refs caused them to miss the 4 FT's.

Wanna know the clincher the Kings out rebounded LA on the offensive board and only lost by one on the defensive side
The Kings had less turnovers, only 3 less blocked shots, and had 7 more fouls. ( Whoops the Lakers had 7 more fouls called on them in game 5 and in game 3)

Refs miss calls! people claim LA goes to the line too much. We heard that all the time about let's see how many other teams... The Jazz? Go figure when you are a power forward taking the ball to the hoop I guess teams back off and let you have the layup uncontested? The Bulls... Jordan never ever got fouled now did he? Who holds the record for the most FT's attempted? bet it was a center!

I am tired of hearing how the NBA conspiracy caused this. Give me a break. The one guy wanted us to do some funky things with stats to see if the refs were biased... Use the stats that are there. The Kings blew it, and the fans and Ralph Nader need to get over it, The Kings had the series and could not finish it. They had the best record during the season and choked in the finals ( Ask the Jazz fans about that with the 2 Chicago series)

Are fans morons not all of them but what I would like to see is before they whine about bias or using stats, that they look at the games and really see what happened!!!