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A whiner, more than a crybaby, I think.
Chill out.
The refs do not matter in this series. The refs have been doing a great job this year compared to years past, IMO. I think the whole gambling scandal really helped clean up the officiating.
I do not think there will be 50 FT attempts tonight like Dallas had against us a few years back. (A Bavetta game, I think)
A whiner, more than a crybaby, I think.
Chill out.
The refs do not matter in this series. The refs have been doing a great job this year compared to years past, IMO. I think the whole gambling scandal really helped clean up the officiating.
I do not think there will be 50 FT attempts tonight like Dallas had against us a few years back. (A Bavetta game, I think)
Your nuts.
Bavetta and Violet Palmer are some of the worst refs in the league.
Get a clue.
You get a clue, ask anyone who knows basketball and they will tell you that Bavetta is one of the top officials in the league.
Do you see him doing Finals games every year???
Do you think the NBA puts horrible refs in the showcase for the NBA???
TPark, you are a total moron.....you make all Spurs fans look like fat dorks...thanks for that.
You get a clue, ask anyone who knows basketball and they will tell you that Bavetta is one of the top officials in the league.
Do you see him doing Finals games every year???
Do you think the NBA puts horrible refs in the showcase for the NBA???
TPark, you are a total moron.....you make all Spurs fans look like fat dorks...thanks for that.
And you make all fans look like nuts asswhipe.
Bavetta, one of the best refs in the league?
What freakin bottle of jackdaniels are you drinking at work?
Good lord.
TPark, you are a miserable soul, you know that. You should just kill yourself....I would if I were you, seriously....nobody likes you at all, and that should give you a clue, ya think?
Definition?
He's like boutons in the political forum - no one takes him seriously!TPark, you are a miserable soul, you know that. You should just kill yourself....I would if I were you, seriously....nobody likes you at all, and that should give you a clue, ya think?
In a perfect world, that would be the case. But if you take a look at playoff games with Salvatore, Nies, and Rush, you will know what I am talking about.
As much as Joey Crawford get criticized around here for ejecting Duncan last season, our playoff record with him on the floor is excellent. I believe our playoff winning pct. is the highest when either Crawford works a game.
The last two playoff games that Bavetta officiated, the Spurs won the game, including the series clincher against Phoenix last year.
Suck on that TPark!
Jack Nies is the devil. Blind and incompetent.
Bavetta is just old. He is so old he farts dust. I don't think he sees well either.
Princess Pimp won't be heard from again until Friday after tonight.
I agree with Jim that Bavetta is one of the best officials in the game.
I also don't think the measure of an official's ability is the Spurs' record with that official on the floor in playoff games.
thank god i have pimp ignored...i shudder thinking about the kind of idiocy that got is posting.
- Mars
That was Salvatore, not Bavetta in the 50 DAL FT game. I was there.Chill out.
The refs do not matter in this series. The refs have been doing a great job this year compared to years past, IMO. I think the whole gambling scandal really helped clean up the officiating.
I do not think there will be 50 FT attempts tonight like Dallas had against us a few years back. (A Bavetta game, I think)
Really? I thought it was the other way around...
I thought that this game was officiated very very well. Bavetta dida of a job.
If anyone's wondering, I'm fairly confident in thinking that the lead official for Game 3 is likely to be one of these guys: Steve Javie, Joey Crawford, Joe Derosa.
And I'm actually almost certiain that it will be either Javie or Joey.
HaHaHa!!1! The cheating dirty floppers are gonna lose the next game! We have direct orders from Stern to insure a Phoenix reverse sweep!
So you're admitting that you're corrupt?
I guess I can just stop worrying about the possibility that you're just incompetent!
Last edited by FromWayDowntown; 04-24-2008 at 12:04 PM. Reason: your you're problems
of course I'm corrupt. I'm an NBA official. Wake up and smell the make-up Will Smith.
Thanks for the heads up. I have to admit that I was very pleasantly surprised by Bavetta and co - they really let them play. Impressed me, even though I thought they could have been more active. I walked away pretty happy with the officiating.
Hoping for more of that in Phoenix Friday.
I agree, though I've definitely come around to the idea that Bavetta is actually a really, really good official. For all of the kvetching about Bavetta, he's been on the floor for as many good Spurs moments as bad; and I certainly don't think that the Spurs' successes have a damned thing to do with understanding that he's among the best in the business at what he does.
As for Game 3, that's just an educated guess. To this point, every crew that has done a playoff game has had a Finals-level official as a crew chief (at least insofar as the officials who've been crew chiefs have officiated at the Finals level in the past). So far, the crew chiefs have been:
Bavetta (NO/DAL, Gm. 1; SA/PNX, Gm. 2)
Dan Crawford (HOU/UTH, Gm. 1; CLE/WAS, Gm. 2; ORL/TOR, Gm. 3(tonight))
Joey Crawford (LAL/DEN, Gm. 1; NO/DAL, Gm. 2)
Bob Delaney (CLE/WAS, Gm. 1; ORL/TOR, Gm. 2; HOU/UTH, Gm. 3(tonight))
Joe Derosa (ORL/TOR, Gm. 1; BOS/ATL, Gm. 2)
Steve Javie (BOS/ATL, Gm. 1; DET/PHIL, Gm. 2)
Ed Rush (DET/PHIL, Gm. 1; CLE/WAS, Gm. 3 (tonight))
Bennett Salvatore (SA/PNX, Gm. 1; LAL/DEN, Gm. 2)
I'd think the only other officials who might be crew chiefs in the playoffs are Ken Mauer, Mike Callahan, Jim Clark, and Joe Forte.
Of those guys, the Spurs have obviously already seen Salvatore and Bavetta, so they're unlikely (in fact, I'd say it's not possible) to see them again in this series. And we've seen Mauer and Callahan, so they're in the same boat in terms of the other possible crew chiefs.
Of the 8 remaining possibilities, Danny Crawford, Ed Rush, Jim Clark, and Bob Delaney are all working tonight, so you can count them out. That leaves Joey Crawford, Joe Derosa, Steve Javie, and Joe Forte as the possible crew chiefs.
I don't really think Forte will be a crew chief, so I'm eliminating him as a possible lead official for tomorrow night, leaving us with Joey, Derosa, and Javie.
Derosa worked last night in Boston, so I'm thinking a cross-country trip is unlikely for him. Javie also worked last night in Detroit, but DET-PNX is more likely than BOS/PNX, I think.
Regardless, I actually think that Joey Crawford is most likely to be the lead official in Game 3 and I would think that there's a good chance that Joe Forte will be on that crew as well.
We'll see if I'm right or if I'm completely full of crap.
As a side note for those who mentioned him earlier in this thread, Jack Nies has not called a single playoff game to this point.
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