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Just like Paul getting 3 FT from half court when everyone knew that the Spurs would intentionally foul?
Mavs fans were saying that the Spurs should have made sure to foul him so there was no questions asked.
Funny.
Heh...that didn't take long, did it???
Just like Paul getting 3 FT from half court when everyone knew that the Spurs would intentionally foul?
Mavs fans were saying that the Spurs should have made sure to foul him so there was no questions asked.
Funny.
Updated.
NBA admits refs’ error that cost Mavericks
By Stephen Hawkins
The NBA admitted officials were wrong when they didn’t call an intentional foul the Dallas Mavericks were trying to commit before Denver’s Carmelo Anthony made a game-winning 3-pointer Saturday night.
Dallas had a two-point lead and a foul to give when Denver inbounded the ball with less than 8 seconds left. Antoine Wright was clearly trying to foul Anthony, and bumped him twice.
But the whistle never blew and Anthony swished a 3-pointer from in front of the Dallas bench with a second left that gave the Nuggets a 106-105 victory and a 3-0 series lead.
“At the end of the Dallas-Denver game this evening, the officials missed an intentional foul committed by Antoine Wright on Carmelo Anthony, just prior to Anthony’s three-point basket,” Joel Litvin, NBA president of league and basketball operations, said in a statement issued by the league about two hours after the game.
In the aftermath of the scandal involving former referee Tim Donaghy, the NBA has begun publicly acknowledging certain officiating mistakes.
Donaghy is serving a prison sentence for betting on games he officiated and taking cash payments from gambling associates for information to help them with bets.
A day after Game 4 of the Western Conference finals last year, the NBA said a foul should have been called against Derek Fisher of the Los Angeles Lakers on the final possession. That could have given San Antonio a chance to win the game and get even in the series.
Fisher jumped and came down on Brent Barry in the final seconds of a two-point game. No foul was called and Barry missed badly on a 3-pointer as time expired.
Mark Wunderlich, one of the three officials for that game last year, was part of the crew for the Denver-Dallas game Saturday night and was the one closest to Wright and Anthony.
“I’m almost as disappointed for Mark as I am for us. … It’s a call he makes 100 percent of the time,” Mavericks coach Rick Carlisle said after Saturday’s game.
Added Wright: “I was positive a whistle was coming, just like everybody else was positive the whistle was coming. I made a play on the ball like I was told in the huddle, and the call wasn’t made. … I’m upset like everyone else in this locker room, and I feel like we have a right to be upset.”
Link?
I for one said it was a bad call.
What's with Spurs fans always putting in Mavs' mouths? Like when you say the Mavs and their fans think beating the Spurs is just as good as winning a championship? Uhhh, not really, get off the high horse.
2006 NBA ing champs.
That vid BB put up shows me a defender who bodied up and then CLEARLY put up his hands and backed away after the contact. The NBA is apparently afraid of Mark Cuban going out there and throwing a hissy fit to the point that they don't care about what actually happened.
Okay, genius.
heat already won their le, wade got his first. trophy is with them get over it.
It is sad that Ghazi has the answer to his own questions.
Obviously would have rolled over the Celts too.WERD...we should just go ahead and claim that 5thfor the Spurs.
San Antonio Spurs = 2008 NBA Champions
I guess it is true that the Spurs won every series they didn't play.
San Antonio Spurs = 2008 NBA Champions
Meh, just 1 Mavs fan and 1 Rockets fan.
There is plenty more where that came from sons. 2006 Champs; says it all.
If Bennet Salvatore is in the building...bad officiating will occur.
Interesting...didn't the league replay a heat-suns game this year because someone incorrectly was fouled out?
San Antonio Spurs = 2008 NBA Champions
You really think that Spurs team last year with a hobbled Manu would have beaten the Celtics in the finals
What a joke, even if they tied the series they still weren't beating the Lakers, that was obvious.
Just in..
I'm guessing that the flagrants like on Artest really had players worried. Congrats Stu Jackson you ing idiot."What do you want me to do?" Wright asked after the game. "Do you want me to Derek Fisher him, just take him out, and then I get a flagrant foul late in the game? I can't blatantly run through the guy, I have to try to make a play on the ball and that's what I felt like I did. I didn't want to jeopardize my team in any way by making a foolish foul."
Dude...sarcasm >>>>> you.
Antoine Wright shouldnt have stopped playing...you NEVER stop playing until you hear a whistle. That and...why didnt he just tell the official beforehand that he was going to intentionally foul. This is all on the Mavs/Wright.
I'm shocked. The NBA admitting a mistake. I can't believe this. They never admit their mistakes.
Thank god.. I expect the worst from Spur fans, that is usually what they give.Dude...sarcasm >>>>> you.
Heh...nobody was getting by the Celtics last year, anyway.
He should have wrapped him up- no need to cremate him but just make sure it is obvious and he can not get a shot off.
I would be willing to bet the ref did not know the Mavericks had a foul to give and thought he was letting late game contact go.
Well the Spurs would have given the Celtics a much better run then the Lakers did... but yeah nobody was beating them last year.
Ok, a few points:
1) Could Wright have fouled him harder? Yes, but also given how the calls had gone during the night that was more than enough to warrant a foul. He body pushed Melo twice and that should have been more than enough for a call given the standards set in during the game. Plus, as illogicial as this might sound, a ref should know that a team has a foul to give and is trying to use that. Usually they do actually.
2) One of the reasons people are blaming Wright is why he raised his arms up or stopped playing? The answer seems obvious to me, he wanted to make sure he wasn't fouling Melo during the shot attempt which would have given the Nuggets 3 FT attempts.
3) What pisses me even more is that they could have easily reversed that call on the floor. The refs got together, and with help of video could instantly have made that call for a foul, set the clock and get the game going. This is one of the reasons why they can use video now, and it was somewhat of a consequence of the Fisher call last year.
4) The NBA refs continue to be simply awful. After the Donaghy scandal, and the Fisher incident the league said they were going to improve. Yet Artest gets ejected twice for inexplicable reasons (other than his reputation maybe), Rondo fails to get ejected twice, they blow an obvious call in a crucial moment and fail to correct it when they could and should. It's not that Bennett Salvatore is a crooked ref or part of a conspiracy or whatever; he is simply awful.
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