But maybe the best thing would be for the league to implement an instant-replay function on plays like that. Something like each coach gets 1 challenge in the last 2 minutes of every basketball game or something like that. Because if the refs were able to look at that on replay, they would be able to decide it was the wrong call and the Warriors would get another shot at it. Simple as that. Players shouldn't be able to flop like that and decide a game; it's just not right. Bias or no bias.

I thought it was going to be a no-call, just two guys fall down and the play goes on,'' Fisher said. ''So when the whistle blew, it caught me off-guard as well. ... I don't think anybody was necessarily guilty of anything, but from the angle that Bob had, it looked (Ellis) had his hands to my chest, which he did. But like I said, I wasn't trying to fall down at all in that situation.''

right a no-call... yea like grabbing your knees and rolling around wasn't done to attract attention..

All the Lakers were holding players from what I saw and it looked like Fisher pulled Al down too. I think it was a team strategy and another veteran move by the Fish. I remember last year he pulled a similar move in the playoffs w/ the Jazz fakin an elbow from Diddy. I agree there should be a rule for that or a double foul and  reinbound since they all fell, but I can't knock a playa for beatin the system

hey NBA-

i just saw a great basketball game turn into a huge, sobering disappointment!

let me explain:

i am a fan of (in the following order):

1)athletic challenges and achievements of all varieties
2)basketball- as a participant and as a spectator
3)the NBA
4)the GSWarriors (as a bay area native and resident)

i have been once again enjoying the warriors team and players and the style of basketball they are playing and the success they've been having- in fact it has threatened to turn me into more of a fan than i'd like to admit- watching almost every warrior game in it's entirety, posting comments on sports and fan sites, actually going to a game at the oracle for the first time in about ten years and planning on returning a few more times this year.... i was planning on spending hard-earned money to watch great athletes compete in person, (we sat 6 rows from the court earlier this year as a $pecial treat) i was getting swept up... until tonight, and the conclusion of the warriors/lakers game, 'won' but not decided, by the lakers in overtime.
it was a more than typically thrilling game which was set and headed to a last warrior possession which would either tie, win, or , probably more likely, lose the game. whatever, the game would be decided with the ball in the warriors hands, or maybe the lakers would steal it, but these great athletes would have the opportunity to conclude the last and decisive 4.0 seconds of a beautifully dramatic three hours of epic rivalry during one last play- win or lose, it just doesn't get any better.
but i guess i should thank the ref who made the decision to decide the game for the athletes- i feel like i've been forcefully snapped out of a spell. i have a real life, and more important things to do, than watch a sport whose officiating  ultimately has far  too much to do with the outcome. i love basketball, i love sports, it's something in my life i'm passionate about, i don't think i really have ever had a choice in the matter- but i do have a choice about whether or not to spend 2-3 hours 82 times a year watching the nba, where great athletes (and fans) are at the mercy of referees and officials who greatly influence the opportunities of the players to use and express their athletic skills and gifts and decide the outcomes of the games. referees who are supported by a league that sanctions the influences of favoritism- toward it's "stars", or based on players reputations- either by percieved role/specialty or perceived 'citizenship', and by gifting 'home court' favoritism, and a pecking order of franchises etc...- not to mention the breach by gambling influences- anyways, after this travesty of an ending, enough! i invest my time and money for the privilege of seeing premier athletes competing, and instead i get non-athletes dictating and over-influincing the outcomes; not a smart investment for me.
so, thanks to this "wake-up call" (as opposed to the "make-up call") i'm going to give it a rest and do something worthwhile with my time and money.

* if the warriors had won in the same manner i would have been just as disgusted- i would have asked the refs for a gift receipt, or maybe just asked that the "win" be donated to the miami heat or the memphis grizzlies or put to some other use...

tonight was such a shame, both teams are good, competed great, put on great show, and i have to thank the players from both teams, it aint nothing you could do.

in the future, maybe the nba could use a double foul type call to untangle a broken play and reset so that the game can be decided by PLAYING!!!

ridiculous

as a whole gets on my nerves. another classic story of a player who can SUCK on our end, can't make a funny looking lefty rainbow to save his life, and can drain big shots with the jazz and lakers to continue to haunt us. i just knew that last play would have took it to 2OT or at the least been a good look or even won the game with an And1...but here comes Fish once again with a tackle on Monta...I mean come on, his swoll body can't sustain getting bumped, if that, by Monta? and too true about him tackling Monta to the ground, if anything he tripped on his way back and tried to use Monta as an anchor to stay up...BS

ok, i just had to vent.
i didn't blame fisher, the refs should see through that crap, just like bowen gets away with murder, etc...
blaming d-fish is the smaller issue, the responsibility flows from the top.
but then imagine if players got to call their own fouls, like at the park, lol

"Kobe Bryant and Derek Fisher combined to sink 169 of 208 free throws last night as the lakers beat the warriors 171-118 to improve their record to 62-0..."

the good news is that i think fisher did get dinged when AH3 landed on him in the aftermath of 'the tackle'... then the writhing and moaning-  well, he plays football... but he aint no football player.

we should all be pissed about it, but u gotta admit, d-fish was pretty smooth getting that call. 10/10.

"when the little talent you have quit returning dividends long ago, yet your thirst to stay in the public eye drives you to continue running around in a world of legitimate stars, performing dubious acts of attention-getting."

i know it's a stretch, but i HATE Derek Fisher, and i don't HATE too many people.

Derek Fisher has been my least favorite NBA player for as long as i can remember (yes, even when he played for us, which was a joke - Fisher will always be a Laker, so it's perfect that he'll end there).  few players have had their limited achievements exaggerated to the extent of Fisher's, based inequitably on who everyone thinks he is off the court.  i couldn't give a $#&%, because on the court he's a cheat & a hack & a self-promoter, none of which are admirable qualities for anyone to espouse in any walk of life.

every missed layup last night was a little bundle of joy for me.  you can literally see his eyes and body praying for a foul every time he goes to the hoop.  he's almost completely abandoned the goal of actually focusing the ball into the basket.  

the guy CAN HIT WIDE OPEN 3-POINTERS, and somehow, because of "what a nice guy he is," and the "turmoil he experienced in his family life" this has turned him, publicly, into a whole slew of basketball things he actually is not.  the fact that he left his recovering daughter's bedside to make a very public display of his return to the Jazz during the playoffs last year is a JOKE, and anyone who wanted to treat that as "father of the year" credentials needs to be choked.  

the guy drives me mad.    

all championship teams know how to cheat a little bit. fooling the refs to get calls is part of the game. the dubs do it too. not getting the call last night is no excuse for losing the game... they got beat plain and simple... Warriors go on to win the championship! you heard it here first.||

The warriors shouldn't have put themselves in that position in the first place by hitting their free throws.  

Secondly, props to odom and that foreign dude who hit those 3s.  

Third, I absolutely HATE the lakers (and I went to school at UCLA too), but D-Fish is one of my all time favorites.  it's just too bad that when we had D-fish he had to be option 1 or 2, as oppose to his role on the lakers, playing defense and being option 4 or 5 (spot up j's).  

Still, refs shouldn't have called it, let the play run.  seriously, there was what, 4 seconds anyways.

i too wrote the nba. I did not even see the game--but after seeing so many similiar star flops, overreactions, star stare downs to earn their call, and favoritism---I had to speak out. The nba will turn into the mlb if they lose integrity and turn a blind eye to justice in officiating. i have more to say but got to run. God has a way of evening everything out in the end.peace out fellow fans.

The correct call is a foul on Fish.  If called as such, due to the foul taking place prior to the ball being inbounded, not only does Monte get 2 shots, but the Warriors get the ball back with the same 3-4 seconds on the clock.  

And noone has mentioned yet (as far as I've read) a positive that can come out of all of this. Now I'm not going to say I'm over it or anything because I still feel sick from monday night, but with the attention that this play has gotten, maybe this is the point where Fisher stops getting away with this kind of shit. Before he might have had already had a reputation as a flopper (not any real noteworthy ones though), but you've gotta think refs will now see this infamous play in their heads every time they even think of Derek Fisher.
Who knows, the Warriors might have lost a terribly important game, but perhaps a perennial flopper has been exposed for good (and the whole NBA will benefit).