its not hard to pull up yahoo sports and use a calculator
but so you can quit being a chode about it...
Dallas shot 223 FTs
San Antonio shot 235 FTs
the team that had more free throw attemps won every game in the series... except game 7. San Antonio shot 8 more in that game but still lost.
Wade's style of play back then was attack, attack, attack the rim
Mavs were helpless, resorting to fouls, and they got called for it.
If you don't want a guy to shoot 97 free throws, stop fouling him.
Wade shot like 65% FG vs the Pistons in the ECF that year anyway, so it was either he was going to get lots of high percentage buckets, you play amazing defense (LOL MAVS), or you gotta foul him - which is what mavs did.
Wade did attack, but he wasn't always fouled when he was getting calls. That's the point. And the amount of favorable if not absolutely bad calls he got is what is unforgivable.
Who thinks that the excercise bike defense kept the Mavs out of contention?
You're not the chosen brother, Eli. It was Paul who was chosen. You see, he found me and told me about your land. You're just a fool.
they got robbed! Miami wasn't an elite team in 2006, they were lucky the pistons choked and the refs helped them in the finals.
http://espn.go.com/blog/dallas/maver...nti-cuban-bias
Donaghy confirms anti-Cuban bias
December, 10, 2009
By Tim MacMahon
Ex-con/ex-referee Tim Donaghy confirmed what folks in Dallas have long suspected: NBA executives and officials are biased against Mavericks owner Mark Cuban.
Donaghy, who made an appearance on ESPN 103.3’s Galloway and Co. to promote his book “Personal Foul,” said that bias cost the Mavericks games and played a significant role in their collapse after taking a 2-0 lead in the 2006 Finals.
“I think there was numerous games,” Donaghy said. “Obviously Mark was very outspoken in regard to the referees. Referees have personal vendettas that they take out on certain players, coaches and owners. Mark was certainly one of those people.”
Donaghy claimed that Danny Crawford bragged that the Mavericks rarely won playoff games that he officiated, information Donaghy used to place bets against the Mavs. The Mavs have lost 15 of their last 16 playoffs game that Crawford worked.
If Donaghy can be believed, there were two major officiating factors in the controversial Finals collapse that was fueled by Dwyane Wade free throws. He said referees are trained to favor teams that are down in playoff series. And then there’s the anti-Cuban bias.
“It had been told to me behind the scenes that they were actually happy in the NBA office when Dallas was knocked out from the playoffs,” Donaghy said, “because it was less complaints from Mark, it was less e-mails from Mark and it was less work that they had to do.”
Of course, Cuban surely fired off a few e-mails after the Finals.
Cuban’s e-mail response to Donaghy’s comments on Thursday: "My position hasn't changed. But I've already paid for stating it, so I'm not going to repeat it."
A lot of what Donaghy says has to be taken with a grain of salt.
another donaghy claim that is ridiculously easy to point out and say
I mean, even if the officiating was biased to that degree, it does your franchise no good to adopt an excuses-making ethos.
Very true. The only thing that really gets me pissed off in that is
I mean I knew we usually lose with that jack ass as a ref but I didn't know it was that bad. Thats a little much to be just a coincidence.Donaghy claimed that Danny Crawford bragged that the Mavericks rarely won playoff games that he officiated, information Donaghy used to place bets against the Mavs. The Mavs have lost 15 of their last 16 playoffs game that Crawford worked.
i know it's been said but mavericks got in the finals what the spurs got in the semi-finals. Sucks for both teams and the heat made out like bandits.
D-Whistle has the refs in his pocket. That is why the Heat won.
And I do believe that Danny Crawford is anti-mavs. I couldn't believe how many bad calls he made by himself. The nba is rigged. ing joke.
FT shooting was more or less even in our series. In the Heat series, it was way lopsided. They shot 9 more ft's than us per game and Wade shot 97 by himself that series. What we witnessed in the semifinals was ref incompetence, while what we saw in the Finals was ref bias.
Dallas allowed the chance when they couldn't hit free throws down the stretch. It's not like the Mavs weren't getting calls at the end of the game. They had the lead. They were getting calls. Wade made his free throws...Dallas didn't, that's the bottom line.
There was nothing bad about Game 3. The Mavs had a chokehold on this series and that was just a big-time letdown at the end of Game 3. They should have swept this series or at the very least ended it in 5 games but they could never get over that Game 3 collapse and let Miami back in the series.Game 3 should have been a convincing blow-out but for the biased refs, but the fate fooled Mavs and gave the Cheat their alaman. Mavs could have already folded up the series in 3 games and strided towards the championship in goose-steps. D-Whistle got the whistle whenever and wherever someone touched him as though refs mouths were automatically controlled with D-whistle's body as the trigger.
i think the bias was as clear in san anotnio as it was in miami. the freethrows would have been more lopsided if the spurs were a tier team like the heat
^ It's funny how Spur fan is impervious to facts. The FT disparities in the Spur-Mavs and Heat-Mavs series weren't even remotely similar.
How Dallas lost 4 straight in the finals after having a chokehold of the series still baffles me to date. To blow a series like that, man, it's gotta be more than the refs.
They no-showed in G4 after collapsing in G3. You can't afford to not show up in a Finals game. It's hard to get to 4 wins, and you can't just gift a win for the other team. G5 and G6 literally came down to the final play. They lost 3 games in that series by a grand total of 6 points. Could've easily gone the other way, but not the way it turned out.
Cuban deserves unfair treatment. What a head
you're australian so your opinion doesn't count
Spurs had better defense on the mavs than the mavs had on dwade so they didn't have to resort to fouling as much.
I think the Mavs got robbed somewhat but it doesn't because the games are not going to be played again. I do believe that some part of David Stern wanted to make Wade the next Michael Jordan. His experiment failed because the Heat were swept in their le defending season by the Bulls. Wade and the Heat have failed to get out of the first round since 2006. I predict that Wade will not be wearing a Heat jersey next season. He's had enough of being on a ty team so he will probably bolt. Whether you're a Mavs hater or Wade sucker, you have to admit that Wade got calls in the 2006 Finals that Michael Jordan never got.
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Who thinks that the excercise bike defense kept the Mavs out of contention?
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