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If officiates, it will be called fairly and the Spurs will lose by 10.
but i thought the spurs were floppers.......
If officiates, it will be called fairly and the Spurs will lose by 10.
are u saying its only FAIR officiating when SPURS lose ?
Isn't it already a late start? gggggooooooooodlord we'll b up to 2am
I can deal with the 9:30 start time verses 10:30. This one should be over around 11;30, 12 at the latest.
No, but usually calls a fair game, and that favors the non-cheating team.
He probably is right. They will probably call everything under the sun against us tonight and will end up losing due to all this complaining and stuff.
It looked intentional to me. That was a dirty play in my opinion and as a Spurs fan I am a little ashamed because of it. I know the Suns are crying and the coach sounds like a wuss, but that was uncalled for.
I cant wait til the trolls are gone. Come on Spurs!!! Put your foot on their throat tonight!! Send them back to phoenix broken!
Aw man give me a f;ing break dude. Non-cheating. I'm starting to wish they would suspend Bowen so when you guys lose tonight we can see what your complaints will be tommorow. "Oh me oh my the camera spends too much time on Eva" That is clearly not fair. Gimme a break!
Even if it was intentional... that's a legal play, and actually a foul on Nash... so I can't call it dirty either way. Just smart, veteran basketball
You got a link or something?
Tell me about it....WAAAH WAAAH! Why are you playing like its not the regular season san antonio!!!! You're supposed to give us space to run n gun!!! You're CHEATING!!
I would fine Bowen $5, 000.
He would be watched closely. Even benefit of doubt on players he is playing against.
That was a stupid foul because witch hunt is getting larger and more vociferous.
Not a chance that he gets suspended. I have yet to hear a single NBA analyst say that it was a dirty play. After the Amare thing there's no way Bowen does that on purpose. Besides, for all the talk of Bowen being such a nagging defender, Nash was the defender and initiated the contact by getting in Bowen's space. The officials still rewarded Nash by calling the offensive foul on Bowen. That should really be the end of it. if they suspend Bowen then they need to go back and retroactively suspend Manu and Nash for making contact in that area. Suspending players for infractions not in the rulebook sets a very dangerous precedent and will get the conspiracy nuts going strong.
Bowen didn't get suspended for kicking Ray Allen, which is the most overtly intentional thing I've ever seen him do.
Unless they determine that Nash's shoulders begin at his knees, the best they can do is upgrade it to a flagrant and fine him.
At this point, a suspension would be remarkably unfair to the Spurs. If they were going to suspend Bruce, the league should have at least given 24 hours notice of that punishment. I can't remember a situation in a playoff setting where a suspension was announced on the day of a game. It's not as if this situation was unknown to the league on Saturday night. It's not as if the league didn't work at all yesterday -- or couldn't have worked. Suspending a guy for a playoff game less than 12 hours before tip off would be, I suspect, unprecedented.
David Stern has handed down suspensions over the weekend for precisely that reason in the past. Was it the Stackhouse flagrant on Shaq?
I have to say that the thing that is most discouraging about the entire situation to me is that it says to teams: the more you complain, the more we'll listen. Phoenix is bent because they haven't been able to impose their style of play on the Spurs. I don't think that has anything at all to do with officiating. It has everything to do with the Spurs being adept at taking away the Suns' ability to get out in the open court, to get wide-open looks at 3, and to break down defenses in the half-court with Nash's penetration. Since Phoenix can't impose its style, the Suns' nearly-unanimous retort is to complain about the physicality of a series in which there really hasn't been that much physical play and hint that officials are screwing them over.
That the league is willing to listen to this nonsense is troubling. Play better.
Still a fine is saying bruce is guilty of something ....dang it..he's playing basketball and if he is fined for that then so be it ! And if they hand down fines to bruce then they should chalk up marion, amare and nash to that list for hurting manu,fin , and parker!!! They cannot single out bruce...!!!
The sooner you admit that Bowen cheats, the sooner you'll be back on the road to good karma. Otherwise I expect some serious Dirkage and another HUGE Texas playoff choke. Of course nothing will ever surpass the greatest (and I must add most well deserved) playoff series loss in World History.
If called fairly? Then Kurt Thomas and Raja Bell will foul out in 6 minutes!Just shut up, ok?
I love Suns' fan intimation that the only way the Spurs can beat their team is with bad or corrupt officiating.
Heaven forbid that anyone ever give the Spurs credit for actually being a great basketball team, capable on their merits of beating any team in this league.
It must really suck to think that the only way your team loses is because of some vast conspiracy against it.
If you want to win, play better.
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Nobody in this series has been fouled more times with fewer whistles than Tim Duncan.
Tim Duncan is historically a huge whiner.
Tim Duncan has, for the most part, shut his mouth and played ball.
Tim Duncan's team is winning the series.
Maybe there's a lesson to be learned here by Phoenix and their fans.
If you put it that way, the lesson would seem to be that whining tends to pay off. Particularly when one whines on the floor AND in the media.
Exactly. Now they are frustrated and upset and want to start point fingers at anyone they can trying to get any kind of advantage they can.
The squeaky wheel gets the grease.
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