TZ Minus 4 - Thursday Footnotes

by section214 on May 15, 2008 9:02 AM PDT in News Comment 6 comments

Marty Mac chimes in regarding Ron Artest. MacNeal has Artest at $8.45 million for the coming year (ditto Hoopshype), while nearly everyone else (Amick, shamsport, etc.) has him at $7.4 million.

TZ's playing Dr. Frankenstein again, this time with Robin Lopez.

The state of the Dallas Mavericks (and how it pertains to Josh Howard) from Kevin Sherrington and the Dallas Morning News point of view. And what's a rumor without a poll -

Poll

Josh Howard for Ron Artest and Quincy Douby

Yes

447 votes

No

263 votes

710 votes | Poll has closed

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Checked in on the Utah Jazz SB site this morning

They seem pretty angry about last night’s game and the “biased” officiating. Two points on this issue:

First, although the Lakers are a common enemy for Jazz and Kings fans, seeing complaints from Jazz fans about officiating would make a LOLZcat cry. Malone/Stockton, anyone?
Second, if Mehmet Okur could hold his rebounding position against Pau Gasol twice in the last 90 seconds, instead of getting pushed into the first row, the Jazz likely win that game. Everyone do me a favor, LOOK AT PAU GASOL. That’s not muscle tone he’s sporting – there’s no excuse to have that guy push you out of position for the two most important defensive rebounds of the season.

I’ll agree, the officiating was pretty poor, but the Jazz had every opportunity to win that game. If Okur and Boozer take control of the boards in the last few minutes, the Jazz win that game by 5.

"Boo Lakers! Boo Kobe! Go Kings! Go Giants! Boo Dodgers!" - my 5 year-old daughter - 4/15/08

by otis29 on May 15, 2008 9:36 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs

Yeah, I don't know why Memo didn't go up for the board when Gasol got the putback.

He’s been a beast on the boards for the last month. Either he was trying to draw the foul (I don’t know why), or he really was thrown off. Either way, the refs called the fouls pretty evenly. It was the ones they didn’t call that drove me insane.

They had their shot to win. Many opportunities to go ahead, but they just couldn’t do it.

by Basketball John on May 15, 2008 10:51 AM PDT up reply actions 0 recs

is

it anything new to have complaints on officiating after a Lakers game?

by kingsTV on May 15, 2008 11:24 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs

131-74

Freethrow disparity in L.A.

i love how the Media is acting like this never happens

by kingsTV on May 15, 2008 2:34 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs

Interesting

TrueHoop picked up the Howard/Artest trade poll (which is in part why we approaching the 600 vote level). So one would assume that we’re picking up voters that are Mavericks fans, Kings fans, Artest fans, Howard fans. It’s tracking at almost 2/1 in favor. Could this be one of those trade rumors that both sides like?

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by section214 on May 16, 2008 9:03 AM PDT reply actions 0 recs

They're not in super favor at Mavs Moneyball

But the poll is leading in favor of the trade as of 4:15 pm PST on Saturday May 17th.

No mistakes in the tango, darling. Not like life. It's simple. That's what makes the tango so great. If you make a mistake, and get tangled, you tango on

by pookeyguru on May 17, 2008 4:12 PM PDT up reply actions 0 recs