I agree - I felt like my heart was ripped out last night. I hardly slept because I kept replaying the game in my head. And then when I woke up this morning and realized it really did happen - I was depressed all over again.I don't know what I'm gonna do, but I'm gonna have to make a major change. My options are:
a) Downgrade from being a diehard fan to a casual fan
b) Never, ever watch another NBA game for the rest of my life.
Very true, waking up and realizing what happened really felt bad and I'm really pissed that they can get away with this crap.I agree - I felt like my heart was ripped out last night. I hardly slept because I kept replaying the game in my head. And then when I woke up this morning and realized it really did happen - I was depressed all over again.
Refs rule the game.
Punish whispers and defense-oriented teams are in trouble.
Let the muscle play and offense is in trouble.
Simple.
The numbers, in terms of fouls and FTs, are pretty clear. Game 3 was very biased.
I read Manu only played for 27'.
That's not a long time.
I think that the only game that was worse than Game 3 was the legendary Game 3 of the 99 Finals In NY.
Duncun getting a 3 seconds violation on a fastbreak.
What a joke........
I had never seen anything like that on basketball court.
Game 3 was pretty close.
I've been in absolute shock all day. I've just kept going over and over what happened last night. I was never one to blame the refs in this series until last night - it was a nightmare. has been in the league long enough to know to let the guys play the game - they don't call a handcheck in the final minutes of the regular season but they call it last night in a HUGE Game 4 situation.
I can handle it when the Spurs are beaten by a superior team but they haven't been beaten in this series - they have been cheated.
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Spurs will win Game 5.
Why finish off this nice series so early.
Apparently, people are watching.........
Quit blaming the refs. If the spurs played better they would have won. They are getting nothing out of the center position.
There is a problem with the spurs greater than any ref calls and thats having an unreliable weak bench with no fire power and two centers that the coach has no confidence in.
Two centers acquired via free agency and trade, what I have always claimed that other than good drafting the spurs have gotten nothing out of free agency and trades.
I feel the same way.
I can accept a Spurs loss when either the other team is superior or the Spurs deserved to lose because it was their own fault for playing like crap.
They have been cheated twice. That I cannot take.
OK, umm, the Spurs played really in good last night.
In this series, you can't play a real center for a long stretch of time. If Tim Duncan is in, you don't want him on Dirk. Dirk plays as the PF for the Mavs, leaving Duncan to play center.
If you had a center in the game, he would have to cover Dirk or a slashing guard.
I disagree. You play a center if you have a good one.
Dirk Nowitzki in 53 minutes of fourth quarters and overtime this series:
3-for-11 from the field. 16-for-17 from the line.
What?
Numbers don't lie.
In the close games (Games 1, 3, 4), Dirk is 1-for-8 from the field and 14-for-15 from the line. His one basket in close games in the fourth in this whole series was that break away dunk in Game 1.
You know something is wrong when both timvp and manny start threads venting about the calls.
Do you we have a good one?
And if you consider Nazr or Rasho good, you might as well tell me the whole lineup you want out there and the defensive matchups.
I thought Manny was disgusted by Spurs fans arguing about the refs after game 3???
what a hypocrite.
He is not a hypocrite he is just human and vulnerable to changing his mind.
You guys wanna know the thing that really sickens me? The thing that truely saddens me about this whole situation?
Is how Duncan has been treated. Tim Duncan, the greatest basketball player on the face of the entire PLANET...he is being on in favor of a team that has proved absolutely nothing in their entire existence, with a "mvp candidate" that has proved absolutely nothing in his entire career.
It's disgusting. I hope Duncan practices mediation and can channel all of this anger he has to be feeling into dominance on the court.
Because I feel flat out sorry for him. You work all year through foot injuries, you show the entire world 9 straight playoff games of supreme excellence and total dominance, yet you get jobbed. You get blatantly jobbed.
Yes he had a chance to win it, and thats all we could hope for at that point, but he's being treated like Danny Ferry and Dirk is being treated like Michael Jordan.
I challenge ALL STAT-FREAKS to show me the last time two playoff games were decided by a foul call on the same player who has made no field goals in either of those two fourth quarters.
CHALLENGE.
It's bogus. Ludicrous. And every player in black and silver knows it.
Will this be the end of Duncan's line? Will he rebound? Let's hope so. I hope they awaken the beast. We've seen the real duncan lately, now we're about to see a BEASTLY duncan.
That's what pisses me off the most.
Out of all people, Tim Duncan doesn't deserve this . The refs are treating him like a rookie, he is getting no respect, and neither is the rest of his team. They are calling absolute .
Tim is having a monstrous series. He is dominating in every category: points, assists, rebounds, blocks, FG% and his FT% isn't bad either.
I'm starting to think to myself, what does it take to beat the Mavs + refs???
I thought the Spurs played a of a game last night, they had Tim, Parker, and Manu all around 30 points. If it weren't for such , Manu wouldn't have fouled out. What other team can get 90 points from 3 players????
Just TP and TD combined scored more than Detroit last game.
If you looked at the Spurs box score last night, you would have thought that they absolutely destroyed any team.
Nothing much more to add here, but Cuban and his rant after Game 1 eliminates any justification the Mavs had in criticizing our fans. Having said that what's done is done and now I can do some meaningful stuff like voting in our primaries, supporting the troops in Iraq, spending the day with my son and eating at Chipotle's tonight.
We have three les and they can't take those away from us.
I haven't been on here since before the game yesterday. And I have just a few things to say.
The Spurs are playing good basketball just like Dallas is, the only difference is the calls favor Dallas. Harris does the same little layup drill and gets the call while Parker gets not even a second look. Dirk flops, gets his foul and Duncan earns his points like a man in the paint wondering where his calls are and if they'll ever come.
It's not about who's playing who. It's about calling it both ways for both teams, or just not calling it at all.
All I want is a fair shot, that's all the Spurs need.
No ing doubt man, no ing doubt.
I have no ing doubt that the San Antonio Spurs are hte superior team in this series. I have no doubt that 99.999999% of the times the superior team will win a 7 game series.
If they let us play, just LET US PLAY, we will destroy these fluffy pansy pussy ponies like the ing collection of scrubs that they are. I want blood, I want destruction, I want mavericks to slam so hard into a brick wall they choke harder than they have ever choked before.
I was hard on barry last night, but that. This team has not choked, this team has played bad ing ass.
Let us play, and we will destroy their asses!!!!
If we win game 5, we can win game 6. If we win game 6, we can win game 7.
We are not out of this. We have had a chance to win game 3 and 4.
hark--THE BEAST AWAKENS!
The thing about Duncan that's amazing right now is just how consistently he's playing. Look at the last four games: 31, 28, 35, 31; shooting 50% or better EVERY GAME. He's having one of the best series of his career, and all this after a season full of injuries. This guy deserves so much better right now...
That's what pisses me off the most.
Out of all people, Tim Duncan doesn't deserve this . The refs are treating him like a rookie, he is getting no respect, and neither is the rest of his team. They are calling absolute .
Tim is having a monstrous series. He is dominating in every category: points, assists, rebounds, blocks, FG% and his FT% isn't bad either.
I'm starting to think to myself, what does it take to beat the Mavs + refs???
I thought the Spurs played a of a game last night, they had Tim, Parker, and Manu all around 30 points. If it weren't for such , Manu wouldn't have fouled out. What other team can get 90 points from 3 players????
Just TP and TD combined scored more than Detroit last game.
If you looked at the Spurs box score last night, you would have thought that they absolutely destroyed any team.
The Pistons might get the same screwing the Spurs are getting, Alvarez. I'm sure the Commish would salivate over a Dallas/Miami finals matchup.
Okay now if the Spurs can blow these es out in Game 5, how tight do you think they'd be in Game 6?
yeayah.
Win Game 5. Steal Game 6.
Then it's on.
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