Posted by martin:

Posted by Pharzeone:

Posted by martin:

Posted by Pharzeone:

Posted by martin:

Posted by Pharzeone:

Posted by Bonn1997:

Posted by Pharzeone:

Bonn, it's another year of people making excuses for the Mavericks. It is a team of excuses. If it isn't the officials screwing them over in the 06 finals, then its the league fixing it so that they face the Warriors the next year, then it's the Hornets getting all the calls. It is a team with a loser's mentality led by Captain Softie. As the fired Avery Johnson said "we as an organization make a lot of excuses for losing and not enough plays for winning." The owner rather face officals and camera men than his team fight the opponent.

I don't care about the Mavs. I'm disappointed the refs blew a great NBA game and probably the entire series.

Once again how did the refs blow the game? It goes back to the notion that you believe the Mavericks were going to get a stop or the ball back to ensure the victory. You can't have it both ways and say I know it is illogical that the game was over with the no call but then say they blew the game. Melo made the shot? Why did he continue to play and Wright didn't?

Uhm, didn't the NBA admit that the refs blew the call?

Martin, so you believe that the call decided the game. I'm sure that the officials miss a lot of calls during games and make calls that aren't fouls. If Melo missed the shot nobody even talks about this. Next time get mad at Melo for trying to win the game and stop him. The NBA only admitted to not making a call, doesn't explain why come Melo was allowed to shoot an uncontested 3 pointer when no whistle was called. So you just playing if you felt you didn't get a call your way. You try to foul then put up your hands like hey I didn't foul him. Help me here Mr. Official.

It's called displaced anger. It causes you to shove the camera guy when you really want to shove your players. "It's everybody's fault but mine"

Displayed anger? I didn't see the game nor do I even care about the series. I think you got some displaced over-explaining of displaced anger.

As backed by the NBA itself, Melo should never have been allowed to shoot the shot, so everything after that up until he made the shot shouldn't have happened. Wright should have wrapped him up better to make sure the non-shooting foul gets called. After that anything can still happen but it heavily favors Dallas (Dener with 3.4 seconds left down 2 and still having to inbound the ball).

But it did happen. Is the league going to make the series 2-1? I tell you something else. It's going happen again. In another series, to another team, another year and another sport. Officials and umpires miss calls or don't make ones that you hope for. It's irrevelant if you watch the games or not. The fact still remains the Mavericks couldn't stop open layups at the end of the game and couldn't score. The fact is that they allow the winning shot to go off because they stopped before the whistle was blown. They put themselves in a position to lose and did so. Shoving camera men and yelling at the officials ain't going help you find proper ways to defend in the 4th quarter. More excuses not enough answers.

we are talking about 2 different things. The ref blew a very important, very blatantly easy call to make which effected the outcome of the game. That was my only point.

Exactly; whether the refs f'd up big time and whether Wright did are two independent questions. I'd YES is the answer to BOTH questions.

Posted by VDesai:

That was a stone cold shot by Big Baby...not easy at all. He has really proven himself in these playoffs. He could develop into a Zach Randolph type player.

Posted by VDesai:

That was a stone cold shot by Big Baby...

Posted by Pharzeone: