OT Sheed and Bonzi talk about 2000 WCF Game 7

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I remember Horry smacking Bonzi right across the shooting arm on a baseline 15 footer. The ref was standing right in front of the play, and pretended like nothing happened. The ball came up about 4 feet short of the rim. "play on, there was no contact".
 
As a season ticket holder, we were invited to the Rose Garden to watch the game on the big screen. Twelve minutes away from the finals. Portland would have ran over the Pacers. Oh well. I too have never watched the game.
 
Whyachi said:
I remember Horry smacking Bonzi right across the shooting arm on a baseline 15 footer. The ref was standing right in front of the play, and pretended like nothing happened. The ball came up about 4 feet short of the rim. "play on, there was no contact".
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It was as if the refs were fans, watching the fourth quarter instead of calling it.
 
Kano John said:
Talk about being in an ultimate high at the end of the 3rd quarter to a complete basket case by the end of the game - that was me!
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I had a sinking feeling pretty quickly. I couldn't watch most of the fourth quarter. I was outside shooting baskets in my driveway and checking in every few minutes (and wincing).

Sheed's Pistons beating the Lakers in the finals a couple years later was SO FUCKING SWEET.
(But it didn't make up for that Game 7, of course.)
 
Natebishop3 said:
It was really hard for me to take the NBA seriously after what the refs did to us and then watching them completely screw Sacramento.
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When that 4th quarter happened, my dad was convinced the refs were betting on the game and that Dunleavy was maybe in on throwing it. Probably total bunk, absolutely paranoid thinking... the NBA refs of the 1999-2000 era would have never stooped so low as that.
 
I was there in LA surrounded by Lakers fans. I remember Shaq clotheslining Steve Smith, all the Blazers stopped because it was such an obvious foul. Not called.

After the game, remember, Sheed was the only one who talked to the media.

But I don't want to hear anyone talk about it.
 
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I wonder what Rasheed is talking about at first. Dale was not on the team when we lost to the Lakers in the 2000 WCF. Maybe he was thinking of Brian Grant?

Their memory doesn't seem to be very good. The core of the team was kept together from the 1999-2000 to 2000-2001 season. The main move was trading Jermaine for Dale Davis and Grant for Kemp.

And remember the Blazers had the best record in the league that year, till they traded for Rod Strickland.
 
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Whyachi said:
I remember Horry smacking Bonzi right across the shooting arm on a baseline 15 footer. The ref was standing right in front of the play, and pretended like nothing happened. The ball came up about 4 feet short of the rim. "play on, there was no contact".
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Or Steve Smith being CLOTHESLINED by Shaq, and everyone walking to the line, and only Kobe realized no whistle was blown and he dribbled down and dunked. Remember that? Also, the 472,825 times that Rick Fox hacked Sheed on the baseline turn around? Second most rigged series ever after the Lakers vs. Kings series, honorable mention to Wade and Shaq beating Dallas with Wade shooting 2 trillion ft's a game. Ah the open sewer levels of corruption of the late Stern era.
 
beast crnjo said:
I wonder what Rasheed is talking about at first. Dale was not on the team when we lost to the Lakers in the 2000 WCF. Maybe he was thinking of Brian Grant?

Their memory doesn't seem to be very good. The core of the team was kept together from the 1999-2000 to 2000-2001 season. The main move was trading Jermaine for Dale Davis and Grant for Kemp.

And remember the Blazers had the best record in the league that year, till they traded for Rod Strickland.
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Rod Strickland was a great addition. The problem was Damon Stoudamire. He was always the weak link mentally on that team. MONSTER ego. I think Rod Strickland and no Stoudamire might have made that team find another gear still. I remember on Drexler's number being retired game, Stoudamire was sucking balls, so we put in Strickland and he got like 12 assists in record time and they were talking team assist records and stuff and on the sideline there was Stoudamire whining and complaining to Dunleavy until he was put in and he then proceeded to chuck a million shots and lose us the game. I can't recall if that was the same season as 2000 WCF or the one after. Also, we had Jermaine in the 2000 years, we got Davis the next year. That was another huge mistake Dunleavy made, pulling Jermaine early when he was frustrating and enraging Shaq.
 
Idog1976 said:
Or Steve Smith being CLOTHESLINED by Shaq, and everyone walking to the line, and only Kobe realized no whistle was blown and he dribbled down and dunked. Remember that? Also, the 472,825 times that Rick Fox hacked Sheed on the baseline turn around? Second most rigged series ever after the Lakers vs. Kings series, honorable mention to Wade and Shaq beating Dallas with Wade shooting 2 trillion ft's a game. Ah the open sewer levels of corruption of the late Stern era.
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Has any outraged Blazer fan ever put together a video showing all the bad (no-)calls?
 
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