Thursday, January 22, 2009

Cavs Game Thoughts

You can look at once again poor free throw shooting in the 1st half, or Coach McMuffin' poor decision to continue to play zone on sharpshooters Mo Williams and Wally Z, but the thing that stuck out the most for me was the piss-poor job the officials did last night. How many non-calls/favorable calls did Monty Mccutchen and Derrick Stafford give LeBron and the Cavs? And how many non-calls/bad calls did they whistle on the Blazers (i.e. Joel Przybilla's charge taken on LeBron with a no call and then out of the set LBJ hits a three, or any of Jerryd Bayless' fouls)?

I immediately thought that the refs were trying to CTS (Cover the Spread for all you non Sportsbook handicappers). The Cavs were a only giving 1.5 (originally from 1.0 in the mourning) and who wouldn't be all over that? If I were in Vegas, I would have taken the Cavs. One has to wonder if Monty Mccutchen or Derrick Stafford had something in this game as well as I CERTAINLY thought so after watching the Blazers comeback to take a temporary lead in the 4th... Rewatch the 4th if you can stomach it and tell me that this game was rigged...

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