First of all, Miami was more aggressive. They deserved to get more calls. The calls were definitely in Miami's favor but they earned that right with the way they were relentless. No complaints on that.......however.....
WTF was that defensive 3 sec call on Duncan! It was a key momentum swing in this game. The Spurs looked like they had settled down and started taking control of the game right up until this call.
The worst part is, it wasn't like Duncan was cheating on D. His man was just coming across half court and it had no baring on the play whatsoever.
I think momentum changed with a run of touch fouls against the Spurs at the end of the Third quarter, while the heat were still allowed to be aggressive on the defensive end. Along with the 1 second, defensive 3 second you were speaking of. When the ref start doing that we should make sure we get our money's worth and start fouling hard instead of regressing and becoming less aggressive.
I didn't think the officiating was terrible tonight
That defensive 3 seconds was pathetic, they got 3 points in that attack.. Referees are too interveining and wanting to show off
Neither did I, just that def 3 sec call was my only gripe.
I'm not ing about the refs. I'm ing about the Spurs reaction to the refs.
Yeah that was stupid. All in all, this trend continues of good officiating, it will only help make the series that much more entertaining from a basketball stand point
Normally I spend a lot of time complaining on the refs but tonight I didn't notice them too much. I was too busy watching Manu dribble like he was in an Argentinian AARP league.
I like the way the games have flow. To many times in the playoffs the officials just keep stopping the game over and over and over, then swallow the whistles in the last 3 minutes.
I'm enjoying these games from a basketball fan prospective.
Best reffed game by Ken Mauer I've ever seen.
I was more pissed off at the constant whining.
Tony was getting manhandled and they got phantom calls for and 1s on chalmers. That started their run.
There were a few hard bumps by the Heat that should have been called. Only one besides the defensive 3 I thought was bad was the one on Chalmers were he shot the floater and wasn't ever touched. Other than that, things were good.
Embarrassing game for the Spurs. Danny Green is the only guy who showed up tonight and the rest of the Spurs were somewhere in the hotel smiling about game 1. , the refs were calling touch stuff but we were still in the game and we blew it.
Zero impact.
As it should be.
Spurs have been packing the paint entire series. Theyre fortunate theyve only been called for one
For a game 2 where the road team is up 1-0, this was a pretty decent officiating job. Miami got a touch of home cooking, but not enough to matter. They didn't make Manu forget how to dribble or pass, or force Parker to turn the ball over 5 more times than he did in game one. Spurs better bring the focus for game 3.
Its funny how the refs called two quick fouls on Green cause he was hot and the lead stretched from 5 to 10. And with a lead like that you can play free. And the asshole wasn't as puckered.
Manu did just say that ... oh i´m gonna translate it.
Source is in spanish here: http://www.ole.com.ar/basquet/tirar-...935306463.html
i´m translating only the ginobili quotes.
“Me voy muy desilusionado, no estoy para tirar cohetes. Perdí un partido de final, voy a mirar el video para repasar errores”,
"I am very dissapointed, for sure not to light fireworks. I lost a Finals game, gonna watch the tape and review mistakes"
“Nos pasaron por arriba del tercer cuarto en adelante. Sabíamos que podía suceder, ellos tienen rachas así”.
"They run us over from the 3rd and on. We knew this could happen, they have these kind of runs."
That´s the first and second quotes, nothing important there but then he said...
Por último, aseguró que no estuvo “cómodo en ningún momento”, y lo puntualizó en un momento del segundo cuarto. “Fue especialmente desde que me cobraron la tercera falta”.
At last he assured that he wasnt "comfortable at any point", and he focused on one point during the 2nd quarter. "Specially after they called the 3rd foul on me".
So going back i have to ask, where any of those fouls ticky tack?
I thought the officiating was okay except for the 3rd quarter. The refs only missed a few calls (two the Heat did and one the Spurs did) and blew just one in the first half (the ball that Haslem knocked out of bounds).
. . .then in the 3rd, they missed several calls against Miami (fouls at the basket), kept calling the Spurs for cheap brush contact, and bailed out LeBron on that charge that they called a block. Not to mention there were two kicked balls that the refs let go for turnovers.
I was fine with the refs except for the 3rd which they officiated terribly. Once they had all that momentum, the flood gates opened up and it was over.
Thanks, Obama
i counted 3 kickballs that they let miami make fastbreak turnovers out of, then when the spurs got a kickball deflection that they actually recovered oh all the sudden refs knew how to call that?
the 3 sec call on TD was awful, and the way they let miami be aggressive on D but called spurs on little contact ticky-tack fouls on the other end was pretty ty.
the mario chalmers and one was weak.
parker, splitter and TD gettting eaten alive in the paint offensively and no breaks all night.
the lebron charge non-call was a nice break for them as well. when you're talking about the heat, they don't need much to get them going. they were dead in the water before the help came.
, i thought the moving screen call on lebron was total garbage. thought it was a pretty legit screen lebron set.
oh well, in the end, the spurs had to many TO's, not focused, manu was on crack, TP and TD were off, and neal needs a summer long defense drill.
/ ing
ultimately though, hats off to miami, a few calls dont add up to a blowout like that. that's on S.A. 100%
Pop pulls everyone with 7 minutes left to send a message. Was the message for the players or the NBA. The kick ball issue was bad, and Parker was getting brutalized. I know everyone is trying to go the high road, but when you watch some of the stuff in slow motion, you have to scratch your head. I know, I know, the NBA has got to move that merchandise.
Several drive by Parker, no fouls; Lebron block on TD with his hands on Duncan's face, no foul. NBA wants to make it a longer series. They know it would be over in San Antonio.
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