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Yeah, he's a freakin' misfit. One smile in 2002 and a laugh in 2007. OH MY!
WHat a trouble maker. The leauge better work to get this under control right away.
Yeah, he's a freakin' misfit. One smile in 2002 and a laugh in 2007. OH MY!
EDIT: Nevermind, you're right.
Joey...DID YOU ORDER THE CODE RED?!?!?
Wow, I wish i could listen to ESPN radio, this could be the big talking points of sports radio tommarow.
Well, it's not quite that bad. I haven't completely cracked the formula yet, but the league has something resembling a formula for assigning officials to playoff games.
I can't remember the last time that one official worked more than one game in a first round series. In the first round, there are usually something like 34-36 officials working. A few of those are younger officials who are weeded out after the first 4 games in each series have been played. The officials who call Games 5-7 in the various series are those who are calling games in the conference semifinals.
In the conference semifinals, the same official will usually not work more than one game in a series unless the series goes 7 games. The second round usually has something like 28-30 officials working, but again, the officials who aren't going to call the Conference Finals are done by the time the Game 4's have all been played.
In the conference finals, there are generally about 18-20 officials working, and again, the non-Finals officials are weeded out by the end of the Game 4's. In that round, the same official will work more than one game in a series, but that usually is reserved for the officials who get the last games of the Finals. In 2005, for instance, Bavetta, Joey Crawford, Bernie Fryer, and Ed Rush each worked 2 games of the Heat/Pistons ECF.
In the Finals, there are only 12 working officials. Each calls one of the first 4 games. Some combination of the Game 1 and Game 2 officials call Game 5; some combination of the Game 2 and Game 3 officials call Game 6; and some combination of the Game 3 and Game 4 officials call Game 7.
I don't think the Spurs are going to see a great deal of Joey Crawford in the 2007 playoffs, though if they make a deep run, seeing him becomes absolutely inevitable unless the league takes some sort of disciplinary action against Crawford or otherwise decides that he's unfit to call the Conference Finals and NBA Finals, which strikes me as unlikely.
Does anyone know what Parker, Ginobili's, and the rest of the team's comments were after the game? Or did none of them speak on the matter?
The face of the NBA bad boy!!!!
As Tim was moving in to the tunnel (still at courtside), he isn't saying a thing. Mic e Tafoya (ESPN reporterette) asks him a question to which he clearly says: "Nothing!".
What I wonder is if it is as Tim is moving off the court that Mad Dog Crawford continued to mouth off at Tim.
Tim is too much a class act to get bent out of shape for nothing. Crawford, on the other hand, has a rep as a real hot-head.
So c'mon, didn't the frigging SA TV stations have any audio to back this up?
The lack of substantial reporting on this story is really, really odd.
I believe Tafoya said that Tim had some choice words to descrive Joey Crawford. I assume that is where the "Joey is a piece of " comment came from.
The face of the NBA bad boy!!!!
On a sidenote: Even before Duncan's ejection, was anyone else getting a little angry with the Spurs and their letting the officials get to them? Specifically, Parker and Bowen. I remember one timeout, Pop was calling Bowen to look at him, not the official and to focus. Another time Bowen had to pull Duncan and Parker away from the officials. Spurs really need to stop this whining. Though as a biased fan I believe they do have a case more often than not...I think it really hurts them and just makes the refs that much more pissed off at them.
ESPN will play it down. They're in the Mavs' pockets.
Yea hopefully in the playoffs they just focus on playing. Let Pop and PJ work the refs.
On a sidenote: Even before Duncan's ejection, was anyone else getting a little angry with the Spurs and their letting the officials get to them? Specifically, Parker and Bowen. I remember one timeout, Pop was calling Bowen to look at him, not the official and to focus. Another time Bowen had to pull Duncan and Parker away from the officials. Spurs really need to stop this whining. Though as a biased fan I believe they do have a case more often than not...I think it really hurts them and just makes the refs that much more pissed off at them.
Son, we live in a world that has courts, and those courts have to be guarded by men with whistles. Whose gonna do it? You? You, that Ginobili guy? I have a greater responsibility than you could possibly fathom.
You weep for Oberto, and you curse the league. You have that luxury. You have the luxury of not knowing what I know. That Oberto's foul, while tragic, probably cost Dallas points. And my existence, while grotesque and incomprehensible to you, scores Dallas points.
You don't want the truth because deep down in places you don't talk about at parties, you want me on that court, you need me on that court. We use words like carry, travel, block. We use these words as the backbone of a life spent defending something. You use them as a punchline.
I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a man who rises and sleeps under the blanket of the very freedom that I provide, and then questions the manner in which I provide it. I would rather you just said thank you, and went on your way, Otherwise, I suggest you pick up a whistle, and call a game. Either way, I don't give a damn what you think you are en led to.
Timmy: "If Joey wants the camera time he is going to call the techs."
Wow, Timmy!
I have never seen Timmy talk so much to reporters. He must have been really mad.
And I saw where he said the swear words after being ejected. I missed that before.
Always a good joke when done correctly.AHF.
To me that was the quote that will if anything help the spurs if they see him in the playoffs. Joey will be so stubborn that he will want to prove Tim wrong about the above statement. Come to think of it wasn't Tim a physocology major in college?
CIA Tim?
Audio of Tim's postgame comments? They have been on every station.
awesome.
No, courtside audio of Crawdad's supposed "wanna fight" comments is what I'm looking for.
No dude, the CIA was Pop. He wanted to play small ball so he bribed Joey before the game to eject one of his tall players.
Just re-iterating the obvious, but Tim did say "You're a piece of , Joey!"
Anyone got a link to video of the whole thing?
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