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Noticed a lot of people are venting about it and I definitely agree with you folks about Odom.  I was watching the game on TV and I was a bit intrigued how Lamar Odom finished the game. Didn't have anything on this game, was actually flipping between this and the local news. Anyways just wanted to share my crazy thinking here.

Throughout the game the few times he took the ball aggressively to the basket was when they need the points because the Spurs had made the game close. That's fine.

However his play in the last 2 minutes really draws some suspicion.

With that being said, on comes the conspiracy theory lol.

4:53 Lamar Odom made 2 point shot
3:46 Lamar Odom made 2 point shot
3:11 Lamar Odom 3 point miss
1:36 Lamar Odom 2 point miss
1:33 Lamar Odom 2 point miss (Michael Finley fouls)
1:33 Lamar Odom misses FT
1:33 Lamar Odom makes FT
0:10 Lamar Odom misses FT
0:10 Lamar Odom misses FT

When he scored his basket at 4:53 it made the score from 93-86 to 95-86. The game was still in doubt. When he scored his basket at 3:46 it pushed the score from 97-86 to 99-86 pretty much stretching it out and at that time mark imo closes the game.

Now ok, the game was over and whatnot BUT what honestly caught my eye was the fact suddenly Lamar takes over the ball and starts doing his own thing. The miss at 1:36 was off a drive to the basket but for those that saw it didn't it seem to u like as he reached up to the basket to lay the ball in that he instead angles his wrist over as if flicking the ball to the basket? The miss at 1:33 was on a fastbreak in which he drove the ball at Michael Finley and he got up and over Finley and again instead of just letting the ball come off his fingertips like a natural fingerroll (which we seem him do all the time) he again angles his wrist a bit and again winds up flicking the ball off the backboard. Odd that with a big lead and the game clock winding down that he'd drive it one-on-one. I could see if it was a breakaway wide open dunk then yah, we see it all the time. But Finley had gotten back on D and Odom still went right at him...in fact I believe that's why Finley was jawing at him after he fouled him because he was upset that Lamar was still attacking. However, if Odom had not attacked being up 9 with 1 minute left, who's to say how much time would've run off the clock? Whatever the case he made just 1 of 2 FTs. Now, with 10 seconds left didn't it seem like Odom backed himself into Brent Barry a bit? I understand why Barry reached in and fouled, cause shit...if a guy was slowly dribbling back into me I'd go for it too. Almost as if he was enticing Barry to just foul him. It seemed like Barry was going to kind of just hover over him and let the game end, but as Odom drew closer he figures to just try and reach in. And he proceeds to miss both FTs, the 2nd one with horrible form as he drew his right leg back an awhile lot and had completely zero follow-through on his shot.

It just seemed out of sync to me the way Odom finished the game.

Hehe...came up with all that folks...and I'm sober! LOL! Well, gnite everyone!

you guys are ignoring the fact that lamar odom in general has very little thinking when it comes to his game.. he ALWAYS plays this way, jsut doing his own thing out on the court no matter the game situation, which is why he's bounced around from team to team