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joey crawford sucks... enough to get tim duncan to cuss him out.
Z injured? What a shocker.It's not like the Cavs are playing with a healthy unit out there. Wallace and Z are both out of game shape, missing the X factor Delonte. I hope they make you eat your words.
Ben Wallace is shot.
Delonte West as your difference maker really should be a bit scary.
Good luck to them, but I just don't think they have the guns.
joey crawford sucks... enough to get tim duncan to cuss him out.
Phil has 11 championships.
(2 as a player and 9 as a coach)
Pop would have just said it shouldn't have come down to a 1 pt game against the Pacers.
that would be a bad move. we will end up with league officiated by referees who keep second-guessing themselves and end up swallowing their whistles or be influenced by fans because it's the 'popular' thing to do.
Yeah, that was a very smart move. Basically they force it to happen, bad call or not, if it happens on both ends of the floor on the same way... you have to call it, isn't it?
Any link to the postgame?
Crawford again? So int he playoffs he swallowed his whistle on the Fisher foul and now gets easy trigger??? WTF???
Brown's got a lot of nerve ing about this, when his team benefited from a similar "bad" call on the previous possession. It was the exact same play, and the exact same "bad" call on both ends. Get over it.
So it's possible to have a basketball game taken away from you with .04 seconds remaining? Who woulda thunk?
LeBron should've missed the second FT.
Let's get rid of the refs and let the players call their own fouls.
But who are they going to blame their losses on?
... and lose by a point.LeBron should've missed the second FT.
No blood no foul. At least thats how it was when I played B-ball back when.
Players of these days are so pampered and spoiled they have forgotten what it's like to just "PLAY THE DAMN GAME"
On the 2 calls, I agree that it should have been a no call. However if there was really a call that must have been made there was a alot more contact on the Pacers play then with the Cavs...
So Mike Brown en about this is all LOL
Microcosm of NBA officiating.
One bad call followed by another egregious (make up) bad call.
They were almost identical plays on both ends of the court. If you call one you should probably call the other. Although I would have hoped neither play would be whistled in that situation.
What about the one that went against the Pacers?
What does that mean? How many games have the Pacers lost this season by only a handful of points.
The Pacers aren't as bad as their record indicates.
They have taken on the Celtics and Lakers (beat both teams), and now the Cavs.
I agree with this and I think that while its tempting to spew venom at Joey, in this case, he did the right thing -- something he might not have done without having been rebuffed by the league for the Barry no-call, frankly.
Look, the call that favored Lebron wasn't made by Joey. It was made by Bennie Adams on the baseline. Had THAT call been made by Joey, I think pointing the finger of blame at him would be warranted. That looked like a hideously bad call and one that, I think, was made ONLY because Lebron James was the intended target of the lob.
But my point is this: with Adams having chosen to make that call, the game precedent had been set. I don't like make-up calls and think that officials who try to even things out usually end of making more problems than they solve. But in that particular instance, you had practically identical plays and it would have been very difficult to explain why one was called a foul and the other wasn't. I think Crawford knew that and I think that he realized that he had to make that call. If it had been deemed a foul on one end, it had to be called a foul on the other end.
Joey's call on Lebron wasn't a make-up call, I think -- it was fulfillment of the wish that officials at least be consistent.
I'm no Joey Crawford fan, but I think in this instance he did exactly the right thing.
And Pop's mantra, moreso than the one-play thing, is that teams should only worry about what they can control, which doesn't include officiating. Good teams can overcome bad officiating by executing on both ends. In that sense, teams lose because they don't execute and not because of poor calls.
Oops! My mistake.
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