2008-09-10T07:12:55-04:00 2008-05-30T16:01:54-04:00 4 2008-09-10T06:39:49-04:00 1 1 10 2008-05-30T19:37:40-04:00 http://img.fannation.com/upload/user_profile/image/100/47/thumb/steveo.gif 385 FL El Pollo Loco Palm Coast 10067 I totally agree with Steve Aschburner's comments. It makes me just as mad, as it did him, when they come up with some BS statement. They apologize for a bad call and offer no remedy. They are truly not sorry if they don't try to remedy their shortcomings. Gasol, Garnett, Ray Allen, were all traded for what amounts coupons and lint everplace else. Boston's whole make up is different this year, and they made huge free agent acquisitions as well. How did they go from Ugly Betty to Prom Queen over night? They didn't really give up or spend anything. Lakers were an Elite team once Bynum started to emerge. He got injured, and LA was a middle of the road team again. They trade used toilet paper to the Grizzlies for Gasol, and they became the favoritesto win the West, and climbed back to the #1 seed in the West for the playoffs. Joey Crawford gets placed in two crucial games involving San Antonio (against NO and LA) and they lost both games. This last one had a botched call (no call) in game 4. All while you have the Ref scandal from the last offseason involving fixes and betting; refs betting in Casinos (which they are forbidden to do) and the league looking the other way about it, and these terrible calls/no calls all make us have to ask the question: Is the NBA part of the fix? Orlando would have been the tougher match up for Boston, and they were suspect to a controversial call that cost them game 2. They would have been up going into the final minute of the game instead of down. They win that game, and 3 at home, and you are talking a 2-1 series edge. and you took away their homecourt advantage. They are a young and inexperienced playoff team. Asking them to win 2 home games after dropping 2 on the road is tough, especially when it's against the Pistons. Plus, I think the League would have rather seen Detroit instead of Orlando in the Finals. 1871344 2008-05-30T18:37:51-04:00 1 WA Corndog1311 Puyallup 434684 I was disgusted way back in 1993 when the NBA wanted a Jordan / Barkley finals and every call went against Seattle in the Western Conference Finals. I finally gave up on the NBA after the referees were flippant and blatantly favoring the Lakers against the Kings every year. Then when I came back, the refs were favoring San Antonio over Phoenix. I used to be obsessed with the NBA, but now I would be ok never watching another game again. 1871221 2008-05-30T17:42:01-04:00 3 SC Apollo Moses Mullins 434704 NBA has little credibility with all of the conspiriacy theories and their approach to correcting mistakes. It's a league driven by stars and big markets. Watching the 2004 Finals game one with the Lakers the favorites for victory, David Stern was grinning away in his plush seats wearing a Laker purple color tie. And how can you authorize your officials to turn a blind eye to a clear foul but awarded the Heat and NBA Championship off of a Dwayne Wade Flop! There are so many sublte ways these refs effect the game it downright crazy to think that the set up was to have L.A. vs Boston NBA Finals from day one. K.G. &amp; Pau Gasol &gt; the pennies traded to Wolves and Grizzlies. 1870987 2008-05-30T16:51:19-04:00 http://img.fannation.com/upload/user_profile/image/420/726/thumb/A-seed2.bmp 947 MI Appleseed Detroit 421166 Agreed. But with the game officials still in charge of everything, including technology. 1870561 4 <font size="3">SI.com&#39;s Steve <a href="http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2008/writers/steve_aschburner/05/30/instant.replay/index.html?eref=T1" target="_blank">Aschburner says</a> he tired of the NBA&#39;s monolith approach to officiating issues and its goofy little day-after peace offerings from on high. He&#39;d like to see more instant replay. What&#39;s your take?</font> 2200 18 NY The SI Staff New York City 21244