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Yep. I believe I just laughed it off in the game thread. just the league taking care of business, so no reason for me to have an aneurysm over it.
I missed the Heat game thankfully cause I probably would have broke my tv after seeing this. did this really happen or was this photoshopped???
Yep. I believe I just laughed it off in the game thread. just the league taking care of business, so no reason for me to have an aneurysm over it.
wow just wow
Sad to say it did really happen, and I believe it changed the outcome of the game. Literally the worst call I've seen since game 6 of the WCF. Pretty disgraceful eh??
Kawhi Leonard hacked him. If you didn't see that, then you're a blind Spurs homer.
which game changing call in game 6 WCF is close to this? I have pretty bad memory
What should be troubling about that is that the call was made by Jason Phillips, who had been chastised earlier that week for not calling a foul on Kobe's "block" of Rubio at the end of a Lakers/T'Wolves game. Two instances of really bad judgment late in games (even Spoelstra seemed to admit that the call was iffy after the ame) by am official who the league believes is one of its best. Phillips has spent most of this season as a crew chief, which would seem to suggest that he was in line to work late into the postseason. He has been demoted more recently to just a crew official on at least a few nights (Joey was the crew chief of the Miami game), but Phillips is apparently still considered by the league to bea really good official at this point. I have a feeling that officiating -- and, more particularly, the inexperience of officials who are going to be asked to make huge calls over the next couple months -- is going to be a big story during the coming playoffs. I hope I'm wrong, but the league's publicly-knowable assessments of its officials aren't reassuring.
Yeah it happened, Kawhi needs to play better defense because that was such a dirty foul. And this guy is supposed to be the second coming of Bruce Brown HA! That's a riot!
/Sarcasm
more troubling is didn't NBA apologize for that Rubio nonfoul, and of course did they apologize for this?? I doubt Stern would apologize to Spurs ever again. The feud is obvious
You know it's a disgusting call when Joey Crawford runs away from it
like that youtuber said, this is more disgusting that the kevin ware play
Well it's going to be hard to find any call this ridiculous, but I remember Kawhi getting clubbed over the head and not getting a foul call for one. Tim uncharacteristically spoke about the officiating after the game. Remember a lot of no calls against Manu as well. Probably nothing like Cole simply falling over and Kawhi getting a foul called on him because he was in the vicinity. It's was actually really great defense on Kawhi's part. Thought we had the game.
If that call isn't made, Spurs get the ball with about 30 seconds left, up 3. The game should not have been that close, but that call kept Miami alive and allowed Bosh to hit the game winning three. You may as well expect any 50/50 calls to go the other way when the Spurs play the Heat/Thunder/Lakers. In the UFC, Dana White always tells fighters don't let it go to a judges decision. The Spurs have to play the same way. If you are up by 10 or 20, it is a lot harder to let the officials determine the outcome. I realize that is easier said than done, but that is how it goes in this league.
You should quote that tbh...I'll bump this at the necessary time.
not sure I agree with that.
a couple of bad calls can easily help a team erase a 10 pt lead
Yeah... was with a group of friends who aren't into sports, but I made them watch the game anyways and even they were perplexed at the call.
Sadly, yes. If I remember correctly, that was apart of a 3 game streak(or at least 3 games very close to each other) where Kawhi had fouls called on him towards the end of the game. Again, IIRC, he did commit the other 2 fouls, but not this one. This was a clear BS call. Oh well, I wish we played better that game. We played bad that game, we should've pounded that team out, but people had/have lingering injuries, no Manu & banged up Tony. We still should have won this game, regardless.
He should be warned or fined for flopping, but he won't be.
Calling the game straight up for rookie or star would go a long way to fixing the problems with officiating.
Spurs FO doesnt care. Otherwise they would say something, Cuban style.
Used to happen to Bruce Bowen also. The best thing to do is to keep your hands up so the refs can see where they are.
I broke my remote control on that call.
And that is why the league is a joke. Big money leads to "special" officiating and year after year of Stern trying to suffocate scandals. Officiating in the NBA is a farce.
I still love to watch my Spurs but I've become less and less attached to the NBA and will probably only tune in seriously to watch the playoff games this year. It sucks to watch games knowing that your small market team will never get a fair shake. The "darlings" of the NBA are already legitimately good teams so it's unfair that a rival needs to win games by a double digit margin just to take the refs out of the equation. Not even remotely realistic that a small market team could field a team that could consistently beat the Heat by 10 points.
The league is only a hair above the WWE with it's agenda of promoting the big city markets and their "superstars". NBA "entertainment". There's truth in that.
I still can't get over this one. No not the ejection, but the foul on Oberto.
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