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Even without Danny C, the Mavs have a tough challenge ahead of them. They have a fired up Game 3 crowd that has been pre-boozed from fiesta, and a spurs Team that has put a dent in the Mavs psyche.
Facts don't lie. Mavs 1-15 when Dan Crawford officiates a playoff game. 52-35 when he doesn't. The fix is in. Thank you NBA. Series will be 2-2 Spurs win tonight Mavs on Sunday. It will go 7 IMO.
Even without Danny C, the Mavs have a tough challenge ahead of them. They have a fired up Game 3 crowd that has been pre-boozed from fiesta, and a spurs Team that has put a dent in the Mavs psyche.
Cry some more!
Good, I'll be at Game 3. GO SPURS GO!
can't spurs and mav fans let one game be played without ing about refs?
how about JUST ONE GAME?
excuses already?typical mavfans
Not that we really needed it, but I'll take it.
GO SPURS GO
As long as we get one of the next two it doesn't really matter to me. It's going to be a long series regardless and the teams are very even. This is really about me just HATING Dan Crawford more than anything else. He is a .
Don't worry, the other Crawford will be along in one of the 2 remaining games.
Didn't Mav Fan also say that Bennett Salvatore was going to give the Spurs Game 1? And we know how that turned out.
I don't like Salvatore much either because he calls about 100 fouls a game and makes the pace dreadful. His only saving grace is he is very consistent in his consistent whistle blowing and he usually favors the home team. Still, it's not good basketball to watch IMO.
Still trying to understand where this line between whining and principled complaints about officiating lies.
So far, I have this:
1. If you complain that Team A shot more free throws than Team B and suggest that it might have affected the outcome of the game, that's whining
UNLESS
your complaint concerns a manifest and overt conspiracy to favor a single star player on another team in a Finals series that your team leads 2-0, in which case, your concern is principled criticism.
2. If you complain that the assignment of an official before the game has torpedoed your chances to win the game and that the league is fixing games by its assignment of said official, then your concern is principled criticism.
Is that right?
Got that right!
That would be refreshing.
you know, if that's true - that Mavs are 1-15 when Dan Crawford refs - then you'd think the mavs coaching staff would take a look at their strategies and adjust. Some refs call a lot of ticky tack calls, some refs let a lot of contact go, some refs love to call certain types of calls, etc, etc. It's up to coaches and players to adjust to the refs, to some extent. It's part of the game.
I expect Game 3 to be close and hope the Spurs win it. If they win Game 3, I expect they will clobber the Mavs in Game 4, the momentum will be in their favor. Mavs best chance to take back HCA is Game 3, IMO. But Spurs need to win both.
For real. At least wait until there is something to complain about AFTER the game.
Since the Mavs have no "real" chance of winning game 3 with D. Crawford officiating, they might as well sit Dirk, Caron and the Jasons.
I have a bad feeling about this.
"pre-boozed from fiesta"
this is why i wish the at&t was downtownish...imagine how rowdy the crowd would be during fiesta if they can just walk in straight from the carnival.
Mav fan's cry more than a fat who ran out of cake
How many of those 16 games were the Spurs at home? That makes a difference in the record. Still - if the shoe was on the other foot I would wonder about that 1-15 record against a particular ref.
Like I've said before - it doesn't have to be a conspiracy. It doesn't even have to be a conscious decision. Just a little bit of lean in one direction can change a game.
There may be more to this particular story. Maybe there were injuries in a number of the games, and it was just the luck of the draw that he caught them. But 1-15 looks pretty bad. What can I say? It has to work both ways. I hate to see any game decided by the zebras.
Didn't the Suns have a long losing streak on TNT games? How exactly did TNT perpetrate this scandal on the team?
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