I remember it was bad. Dirk getting countless free throws. Bowen making a critical block where it got called a shooting foul.
Can someone give me a game to game breakdown. Were there any games where the Spurs got the favored calls?
Now dirk..Mavs haven't lost yet..no need to cry.
Duncan fouled out in the pivotal seconds of a game by making Dirk step on Duncan's foot, flail his arms and the call was made by Joey Crawford who was on the complete opposite side of the court, nowhere near under the basket where the alleged foul took place. Basically he saw the flail.
That's why its funny that Dirk will never win a le. Pussies always finish last.
They cost the spurs the series, just to be frank.
we can all be "normal" and put all the blame on the spurs, but that's just not what happened.
yes this is why i put an * by 2006*. the league's agenda included avoiding what seemed like an inevitable spurs-pistons rematch. several series were tampered with (including the Finals mavs fans, before you whine) heres some points about the spurs/mavs series.
scenario for Game 3: series tied a 1-1 going back to dallas. league apparently sees an opportunity give Mavs a 'nudge' (to help eliminate spurs thus avoiding spurs-pistons finals rematch)
outcome of Game 3: after FT attempts being about the 1st 2 games, Dallas shoots 50 FT. the spurs shoot only 32. dallas's 50 attempts is the high for any team in the playoffs that year including miami. Dirk averages 9.3 FT a game for the '06 playoffs; in this game he is awarded 24 freethrows. he shoots only 3-9 from the field, but it doesnt matter because he is bailed out with freethrows virtually everytime he touches the ball. Tim Duncan fouls out of the game (only playoff game hes ever fouled out of i believe, ever) after the notorious call in which Dirk steps on tim's ankle. with Duncan fouled out, most others in foul trouble, Dirk having a non-existant game from the field but was bailed out by being awarded a playoff-high of 24 FT, dallas wins. by ONE POINT. dallas goes up 2-1.
Dirk gets 15 more FT in game 4 as dallas wins again to go up 3-1. Never in NBA history has a perimeter jumpshooter shot more freethrows in a series. noone has ever recieved more phantom calls or gifts than Dirk in that series. Duncan shot many FT too, but he is a low post scorer, the calls on him were legit in fact there could have been even more called, while with Dirk these were calls out on the perimeter after hes simply jump shooting over guys 6 inches shorter, including the best perimeter defender in the nba in Bowen. even if there was no contact at all, the whistle would blow and dirk would get 2 free points. time after time.
the series ended with dirk driving for a 2 when they were down by 3, then getting bailed out by a ticky-tack foul (yet again) on Manu allowing dirk to get another free point to tie the game. on the last play of the game, Duncan gets the ball right under the basket and is hacked as he goes up, but there of course is no call for him.
i can go on and on.
Yes, all this is why 2006 is 10 times worse than 2004 and the 0.4.
That and the fact that a very beatable Miami was waiting in the finals.
I can say for certain that it wasn't the only PO game that Duncan fouled out of. During the 05 first round series against the Nuggets (possibly game three in a similar 1-1 scenario) there was a game that was called insanely close. It was absolutely painful to watch because it was just a damn free throw fest. I remember it simply because of Tim huddling up the troops before he headed to the bench, including a somewhat dejected looking Manu whom he grabbed by the jersey to pull him in.
Anyways, that was three years ago. happens.
Great, now i'm pissed again.All those examples are right on. I still feel that Manu did'nt foul Dirk from behind it was all ball. I'm pretty sure it was very near the end of game 7. Some Mav fan has a pic of manu fouling dirk but that is not the play I am thinkin of. Although the plethora of horrible calls against us through out that series make it hard to remember exactly.
I remember that. Didn't the Spurs pull that game out?
The 06 Finals were perfect; it was hilarious seeing Dallas get a dose of their own medicine. Live by the whistle, die by the whistle.
I'm pretty sure of it. I might be talking out my ass, but I think it was an OT game and damn near everyone was in foul trouble. Ginobili and Parker just kept attacking the rim and fouled Carmelo out of the game not long after Duncan picked up his sixth. Nuggets didn't have a go to scorer after that.
I found it odd that during that series alot of the Mavs fans here were blasting Spurs fans for blaming the refs, then two weeks later those same fans were complaining about the refs in the Finals. Much like this post-season.
I asked then why it was ok for Mavs fans to drop the refs card but not Spurs fans. To this day I have not received an answer.
Curious.
You never will.
By the way, the '06 series was THREE YEARS AGO!!!! Please move on, fellow Spurs fans.
I agree with that and most of us have. I was just noticing the parallels in history between the two years.
exactly, i have no problem admiting the spurs lost in '04 because they mostly played like crap especially after the .04 debacle.
and in '08 we lost because we were simply too old and worn out.
in '09 we lost because of piss poor roster/rotation choices, and because we were even older.
but in '06, we had a damn good team and played very well, and were 100% robbed of a 3-peat due to biased, agenda-based officiating, period.
Fair enough.
The Spurs fouled a lot in 2006 because they had only one shot blocker due to the small lineups trotted onto the floor by Popovich. History has shown the wisdom of putting Michael Finley on a great player, and Fin was the power forward for much of that series. The foul where Duncan fouled out MIGHT have been a bad call, but Duncan wouldn't have had five fouls by that point if Rasho or Nazr had been in there to help patrol the paint.
why are you defending the mavericks? whats the excuse for yesterday, when Dirk got countless phantom calls even with plenty of big denver defenders? anyways your arguement would be valid if dirk was a slasher, and the little spurs therefore had to foul because they couldnt contest, but the fact that dirk was just shooting jumpshots renders your arguement invalid. having small defenders on a 7-foot jumpshooter doesnt somehow justify Dirk getting tons of calls.
Yes,
I remember Dallas was able to win a game from the free the line on some iffy calls.
Outside of 2001 when la just stemrolled everyone you could argue the refs had a huge part in any season the Spurs did'nt win it all. 2002 the refs swallow their whistle as phil jackson es about officials and orders his team to rape Tony. 04 we all know about 04, 06 this dallas series, 08 the no-call on fisher who knows what happens with another chance. And I believe even though we could'nt get far with no Manu the refs ed us again against the mavs just look at game 1 Timmy with 1 FTA on 24 FGA.
Mavs won it all in 2006.
Both teams played hard.
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