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My reaction is the same.. he's not in the class.
According to Dan Patrick, Chris Paul said something at the scorers table last night about the refs letting the Spurs win.
I don't know the exact statement, but CP3 apparently said, "Its like they got a call at halftime saying let those boys win." To me it means he was saying that the league call the refs at halftime and told them to give the calls to the Spurs and let them win.
What's your reaction?
Last edited by MoSpur; 05-16-2008 at 09:11 AM.
My reaction is the same.. he's not in the class.
i think Buck Harvey's article has the quote.
That was in the Express-News this morning as well.
My reaction, eh! Who cares, it was a heat of the moment type thing and he was likely frustrated. On to game 7.
I can't blame him for thinking he was jobbed. I mean, for 5 1/2 games he was allowed to throw himself into the defender and knock him backwards on his way to the basket... he probably thought that was legal. Suddenly, 264 minutes into the series, the refs start making calls that follow the rules of basketball and it takes him out of his game.
Hopefully he gets similarly jobbed in Game 7. I cannot believe it took that long for him to get a f'ing offensive foul called on him. Of course, that's one of the drawbacks cheering for a team who rarely ever complains about calls after the game... most other coaches would have called CF3 out after Game 1 or 2 and drawn more attention to his bull .
Spurm, I'm sure the Spurs are in communication with the league as much as any other team about the refs. Pop usually just doesn't do it in press conferences.
I didn't realize that the quote was in Buck Harvey's article. If you want to combine the threads, I'm all for it. My bad guys.
I'm still waiting for someone like Thomas or Horry to lay a hard foul on CP3. The Hornets have done it to Bruce, Tony, and Manu. If I were Tony or Manu, I would go up to Thomas or Horry and say, "hey, see what they just did to me, do the same do CP3."
You may be right, and I wouldn't be surprised if there was some discussion at half time last night that drew attention to his tendency to foul on his way to the basket. But it still took 5 1/2 games, and maybe it's just perception, but it seems like whining to the press is more effective in altering the way games are called.
(Not that I'm advocating it.)
It is in Harvey's article:
http://www.mysanantonio.com/sports/c...1054a96b0.html
Buck Harvey: Return to cheap-shot Rob: He's left with one response
Then came a rash of fouls against West and Chris Paul that made them feel as if they had their own Joey Crawford in the AT&T Center. After the two of them had been called for four fouls in about a minute, Paul leaned over the scorer’s table with a smirk.
“It’s like they got a phone call at halftime,” Paul said of the referees. “And they said, ‘Let them boys win.’”
http://spurstalk.com/forums/showthread.php?t=95488
losers make excuses, champions take responsibility.
I'm shocked that the officials suddenly started calling the offensive fouls Chris Paul commits as much as he is.
That could well be that the Spurs told the NBA to watch the film and see how many times he manages to do it and not be called for it. That could have been one of the things on the "watch list" for the refs last night.
If nothing else, this should create some doubt in Pauls mind as to whether he will be called for it or not, and it might put an end to his use of the off arm to clear space in game 7.
If Chandler starts getting called in game seven for moving screens, I'll believe it.
I think a fine is eminent
If he didn't even get a fine for punching Bowen in the balls, he'll absolutely skate on this.
There's no way he's fined. Unless it was caught on game film, it's hearsay; and even if it was caught on film, he said it during a game, not to the media.
He shouldn't be fined. But I do hope NBA officials hear about it.
seriously if dont win game 7, i seriously hope one of our boyz get send him a message heading into the wcf...fokn wanker who needs excuses.
Like the Spurs are going to get calls in New Orleans. Five whistles against West and CP3 in a couple of minutes? There'd be a riot.
Stern will not be happy. CP3 is basically saying that the League is fixed, and after last years debacle with Donaghy, Stern will have little patience with any player spouting an infelicitous remark on the subject.
No, no, no.
If the Spurs don't win, the Hornets HAVE to beat the Lakers.
I cannot handle Kobe getting Finals MVP with another Ring, and Phil Jackson being Sauron the Ringmaster.
I like the Jazz moving on, actually.
And they (the fans) starting the * issue
What a bull man.
We got some favorable calls in the third, but that was not something that was out of cammon practice
of those 4 fouls, only the 1st one on West was questionable.
tough ...it is not like the Spurs did not get ass ed in game 5 in the 3rd Q. Calls even out over a 7 game series.
He's not going to get fined. He didn't say it in his postgame interviews, he said it during the game and to no one in particular. I'm sure a lot of players say a lot of things in the heat of the moment in a game.
I do agree that it's about time those offensive calls were called on him. He does it every single time. However, I don't expect them to be called in Game 7. So if the Spurs are relying on the refs to help them, they're due for a long night.
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