Ok ladies and gents...gonna update this.
**FIRST off - Dallas vs Lakers had me officially convinced - absolutely love the Lakers (had to change my avatar even though I love my car just as much
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VERY VERY aggressive gameplays, which is the way the game should be played from the start. Excellent defense, excellent offense, 2 fights broke out (and almost a third, which i will get to later), and finally, lakes killed the mavs 110-82.
Although I don't support trash-talking, fights, feuds, I can completely understand where the Lakers are coming from with their frustration. For starters, the coaches are just assholes that game - calling all sorts of unnecessary technical fouls and not catching fouls where they need to be called.
Second off, the Mavericks play dirty as hell, they know how to "fake" a foul like a pro - a perfect exam of that would be the 4 personals against Fischer. How do I know this? Well, I record all the plays and rerun them for pick moves and screens for my own intermurial basketball team at the university and if you rewind, slow-down and play it, you can see Terry and Burea committing all sorts of push fouls that were either never called or missed calls.
As far as the feud, it really wasn't too much of a lose for the Lakers, seeing as how the rejected players really didn't have any strong impact on the team as a whole. Blake is a just a ball-pusher, Brown is another guard amongst the many but I will say he has some good assists. The greatest lose for the Lakers was the elimination of Barnes. That dude is a seriously under-valued player. He MAKES plays. I don't know why Phil doesn't put him to closer to front. I think he has a lot to offer to the team.
Mavericks, well, Terry was one of their starting 5, so if they get suspended till or even through playoffs, they're going to be at a serious lose. And then Haywood, well, he's another valuable player for the Mavs. Overall I think the fight hurt Mavs a lot. Because not only did they lose valuable players but they lose the game as well and screwed up the game alltogether.
A third fight almost broke out between Nvinski (idk how to spell his name but he's the big white center player) and Kobe. Kobe was going for a layup and he intentionally pushed and fouled him. Navinskit said something to him and Kobe said "I understand" which was really a show of good sportsmanship because he could have just as easily got in his face and wrecked havoc, instead, he made the two free-throws and continued to wreck them on the court.
Also, if you look at Buera at some of the replays, all he does is wrap his opponents hands between this arm and body disallowing them to spring or screen for any decent picks. I believe he was doing that shannon brown because he got eliminated and there was a shot of him looking at Buera like "WTF R U DOING?!"
All-in-all, great game. Love to play and watch super aggressive games. Sometimes fights and feuds are just part of it because of the passion of the players for the game and is really inevitable especially in the face of crappy refs. I sure hope they don't use them for the NBA Finals.