I might be misunderstanding the methods used for this project, but simply reviewing the fouls called and determining if they were "right" or "wrong" is not sufficient evidence to say the game was clean. Yes, in a made for TV movie, refs officiating a game would blatantly call fouls when there was 0 contact. However, this is basketball and there is contact made on every play. Two big holes in their investigation and that I notice watching the game are:
1 - Who the fouls were called on. We had out two best big men foul out on weak calls. Just because Derrick Fisher and Devan George picked up a couple of fouls does not mean that impact of the questionable officiating was anywhere close to even.
2 - The uneveness of which fouls were being called distinctly favored the Lakers. Both teams were playing aggressive. Webber and Vlade were getting bumped all game long. Bibby was getting mugged as he tried to dribble upcourt and nothing was called. Shaq was doing his normal offensive fouls, which were not called. Meanwhile - Vlade, Scot and Chris were getting called for touch fouls. Like I said earlier, there is always contact in basketball, so simply looking at a foul and determining that technically it was a correct call does not determine if the game was farily officiated. The real barometer is if the game was being called differently for both teams, which I feel it was. That doesn't mean it was intentional, but it was being called differently.
