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Originally Posted by I wanna be like Miikka
Haha yeah you nailed it. I don't know what is worse, NBA reffing or the absurd comments about Lakers being favored. IF anyone actually watched the game there were a ton of garbage calls against the Lakers.
The issue is with consistency with NBA reffing. They didn't favor the Lakers, they are just always inconsistent. Lakers won, so suck it up Laker haters, don't come up with lame excuses.
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That's the answer. I guess it happens in the NHL too. The refs put their whistles away in the OT frame, and the Magic plan was to drive and get Gasol/Odom/Fisher/Ariza fouled out. Had they sent the memo to the magic saying "I don't care what happens we're not calling fouls in the OT frame", maybe they would've taken their open shots instead of driving the lane into a ton of contact, or trying to draw offensive fouls.
I don't think there was favoritism. They just completely changed the way that they called the game in OT, and it just so happened that it benefited the Laker plan (which was to take jump shots) much more so than the Magic plan (get the Lakers fouled out).
Either way I'm the first to admit the Magic should've won this before OT and maybe experience or lack of execution caused them to buckle. They've basically given away 2 games this series, which is why I'm kind of amused at all the "Lakeshow" fans that the Magic are somehow so much worse than them. Funny enough, the Lakers took two more 3's than the Magic that game.