Suspensions on the horizon?

[Lurker]

  If the game was called "correctly" the physical style of play would not be allowed and the Lakers would benefit and the Rockets would suffer.

If both teams are allowed to play the same level of physical play then the game is being called fairly.  If you want to get into "correct" then every team would foul out in the first half with all the "carry"s, extra steps, moving screens, arm/hand checks, etc.  IMO fairness and equality in the way the game is called...for BOTH teams...is more important than interpreting the rule book to the letter.

YOU just want the game called in a style that benefits your team the most.  That is a far cry from calling it "correctly".

[westkoast]

Well, the League agrees with most of you, in that both Alston and Fisher will be watching the next game from their respective hotel rooms. Both suspended for one game.

Kobe and Artest, however get to renew their quest to show each other the erotic parts of their elbows as often as possible.

Again though, why didn't Rondo get suspended for the same play?  Smacking the back of a players head is just the same as shoving him full force into the scorers table.  Clearly another attempt by the league to extend a series for ratings no?

Bold is pretty much on point.  I wonder who takes one to the chops first.  I am going with Kobe Bryant 4 minutes into the 1st quarter and he most likely will deserve it.  Meaning I REALLY hope Battier gets him in the jaw.   Ish talking on the court is fun and part of the game....when the other guy does it too.  How are you going to try to jaw at Shane "Im the nicest player ever" Battier the entire game?  Heat of the moment jabs here and there, happens.  If you've sat close at a pro basketball game or been to a street basketball tourny, youve heard it.  The entire game tho?  Even me (Kobe's biggest fan on the board) was like ENOUGH WE KNOW.

On a side note JoMal, since you are a bean counter, I am giving up on math.  They calculated everything they could about Kobe's offensive game and it meant nothing.  "Math is fail" as the xbox live junkies would say.

[Reality]

Bob Horry on NBA-TV tonight. 
Perhaps he will weigh in on the suspensions.

[WayOutWest]

YOU just want the game called in a style that benefits your team the most.  That is a far cry from calling it "correctly".

I don't want anything of the sort, you guys just want to argue points that were never made.  My ONLY point is that the Rockets benefit more if the game is allowed to get physical.

[Lurker]

YOU just want the game called in a style that benefits your team the most.  That is a far cry from calling it "correctly".

I don't want anything of the sort, you guys just want to argue points that were never made.  My ONLY point is that the Rockets benefit more if the game is allowed to get physical.

So this means what in LALA speak...

If the game was called "correctly" the physical style of play would not be allowed and the Lakers would benefit and the Rockets would suffer.

My interpretation:  My team benefits...and the other suffers...if the game is called correctly.  Being called correctly means no physical play which is the style my team is best at. 

[WayOutWest]

My interpretation:  My team benefits...and the other suffers...if the game is called correctly.  Being called correctly means no physical play which is the style my team is best at. 

Less contact the finess team benefits, more contact the physical team benefits.  The rules are written to benefit scoring teams, because that sells tickets, the Lakers/Nuggets/Mavs are a scoring teams.  The way the rules are/were enforced Shaq/Kobe Lakers would defenately benefit and the current Lakers team would not, I'm not complaining I'm just saying that is how it is.