Tuesday, May 26, 2009

The Daily Banned Action: Cavs Complaining About Foul Calls

LeBron James is a tremendous player and he would remain an elite player even without the preferential treatment he gets.
(For more, go to: http://www.nba.com/bulls/news/smith2_090406.html?rss=true)

Over the last three games, Dwight Howard, Hedo Turkoglu, and Mickael Pietrus have been routinely called on fouls in which little to no contact occured, or (which hapeens very often) LeBron initiated the contact. For the Cavs to lament that the Magic shot 51 free throws, they can only blame themselves. For one, if they did not want to purposely hack Dwight Howard they could have easily avoided a substantial number of those freebies. For another, they did not have to hip check or hand check Hedo Turkoglu when he is 30 feet from the basket. Lastly, Dwight Howard was fouled far more than was called and every time a foul was called, post-whistle hacking was a regular occurence by the likes of Anderson Varejao.

2 comments:

  1. Can u believe that foul called on MP?!?!?!?

    I agree with the noncall on that Dwight Howard alley-oop attempt but the refs would have gave LeBron that call.

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  2. LeBron gets the calls because he is hammered every time he gets in the lane. Pietrus clearly tripped him on that last play.

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