Spurs vs. Mavs... will the refs be a series x-factor again?....

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Originally Posted by BUMP

once again. Tim Duncan shot more free throws than the entire Maverick team that series.

If he actually made them then they wouldve advanced easily, instead having to pull the ref card and "series altering" bullshit.

Fail.

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Fail indeed, with the way Tim was getting mugged for 40+ minutes a night, the whole Mavericks team should have fouled out.

Instead, they decided Tim and all his hardnosed attacking in the paint, deserved only slightly more freethrows than Dirk and his attacking with ...... fadeaways and freethrow line jumpers over much shorter defenders? Yeah, those fouls they gave Tim are totally bs compared to the bullshit they handed Dirk.

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Originally Posted by BUMP

once again. Tim Duncan shot more free throws than the entire Maverick team that series.

If he actually made them then they wouldve advanced easily, instead having to pull the ref card and "series altering" bullshit.

Fail.

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Game 1: Duncan: 5-6 Mavs: 19-28
Game 2: Duncan: 12-14 Mavs: 35-43
Game 3: Duncan: 5-8 Mavs: 39-50
Game 4: Duncan: 7-8 Mavs: 28-32
Game 5: Duncan:10-15 Mavs: 16-19
Game 6: Duncan: 8-10 Mavs: 17-20
Game 7: Duncan: 17-23 Mavs: 28-31

http://www.nba.com/playoffs2006/series_sasdal.html

So if you know how to add the final FT made/attempts would look like this:
Duncan: 64-84 Mavs: 182-223

I think someone needs to go back to math class. No way did Duncan shoot more FT's than the entire Mavs team.

FAIL!

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Originally Posted by Jimcs50

Refs will not be noticed. Best team will win.

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no brainer

only in 2006 did we lose cause of the reffing.

in '04 we gave up after fishers bs shot and played like shit.

The year is 2009. The championship has already been decided by the gods. Let it go.

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Originally Posted by z0sa

You do remember The Trip Over the Foot, don't you? The one Tim fouled out on?

Describe to me how that's not a series altering call.

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I never suggested that one call wasn't bad, but when you compare it to the FACT that the coach benched both starting centers, that one call at the end is meaningless. Besides, it could easily be argued that Duncan wouldn't have had five fouls if there'd been someone other than Horry or Oberto (who was a rookie) in the middle with him. Duncan's first two fouls in that game were on Josh Howard and Marquis Daniels. Duncan had to try to patrol the paint as the only shot blocker through the vast majority of that series.

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Originally Posted by z0sa

btw, throwing your opinion out there as fact (that going small ball wasn't the best option against the extremely small lineups mavs trotted out) won't get you any points.

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Since you seem to think that Nowitzki + Diop + Dampier in the rotation = "extremely small lineup", I guess I should be grateful that my completely factual and correct assessment isn't to your satisfaction. You might have someone look up the word "fact" for you as well. The only lineup change AJ made was to put Harris in for Griffin after game 1, which makes the lineup exactly two inches shorter. Pop was well into the smallball experiment by the end of the Sacramento series.

mavs were the flavor of the month back in 06. the mavs and suns were supposed to be the future of the league. rules were changed to keep the spurs and pistons from winning any more titles. remember the emphasis on hand checks? that was because precious dirk could not drive to the basket. it bit them in the ass in the finals as d.wade lived at the foul line much like dirk did against the spurs! mavs, suns still have zero titles. it will continue. at the end of the year the spurs will still have four titles, maybe five, but it is safe to say the mavs and suns will still be stuck on ZERO.