TP got away with a clear travel like a possession or two before. (obvious enough for Sean to say he got 2.5 steps, and you know how Sean is) The Norris Cole was a makeup call imo.
I can actually see how the ref could call tripping at full speed. It's much easier to see that he got the chair pulled in slow motion or if he were at a standstill when it occurred (as with post players).
Unfortunate call at an unfortunate time, but it wasn't an egregious error imo tbqh.
That call cost us the game.
I'm more apt to believe that Green and Splitter playing like against the Heat's scrubs and the team missing 7 of their 16 free throws cost them the game, but that's...you know...just my opinion man.
Officials have always had an influence in the game and can control it with ease with foul calls, refs that make bogus calls never have to answer to anyone, there's no investigations, they report to no one and we just brush it aside. The 2002 SAC Kings can vouch for this when the refs jobbed them to the Lakers in order to keep them in the series or else they would have gone home and The Fuhrer Stern would have had a ty Finals that year.
what was I watching? Jordan Vs Bird for the NES
That was Basketball for the Atari 2600, shot with a potato.
Absolutely true. If the Spurs had played with any sort of drive and passion and done the little things that are necessary to win, the call would have been irrelevant.
While I do think there will be some major officiating issue in the coming playoffs, I still don't subscribe to the notion that officials turn games, in general. Great teams play through bad calls, get stops, and find ways to score. If you can't do those things, you don't deserve to win, no matter how egregious the officiating might be.
One of the worst calls you will ever see. And if we somehow make the finals you'll see a whole lot more like that. I would expect that if it was lebron but ing norris cole? Cost us the game.I missed the Heat game thankfully cause I probably would have broke my tv after seeing this. did this really happen or was this photoshopped???
Don't forget portland in game 7, 2000 taking up the ass from the refs.
But when you have the best teams out there, evenly matched, a bad call or two can surley be the difference. It' nice to pretend the game is fair. It was fun to believe in santa and the easter bunny but then we find out it's all a fairy tale.
The Kings definitely got robbed in game 6 but they choked away game 7 at the foul line and some airball 3's in crunch time.
Same thing with the Blazers. They had the lead in the 4th and choked the game away.
You can't expect to just win a game by default you have to actually be the aggressor and take the game. Those teams failed to capitalize when they had the Lakers down and as a result they lost.
Yeah, glad I wasn't watching or I would've broken something. What a load of ing BS.
I was more annoyed with the Spurs' drive and focus all game than I was with that call.
I will never believe game 7 in 2000 was not fixed, it was either the refs or someone got to one of the blazers but that was too fishy.
Agreed! Spurs will have to play with a lead to overcome the refs bias! I threw my TV table when that crap call was called against Leonard!
Leonard stuck out his leg and tripped him but lets be real, it was a game against Miami's scrubs.
unfortunately those who claim the solution to bad reffereeing is to have a bigger lead just don't get it. What lead is big enough to overcome a few terrible calls? 20, 30pts? I know damn well a 10-15 point lead can be erased easily in the NBA. Its just not realistic
I also hate when people say, well the game really shouldn't have come down to that call. No , but guess what, the game just came down to that call. Yes, they should've been up by ten, yes they shouldve made their free throws. We all know this. But that still does not excuse a bad call changing the outcome of a game.
We played so horribly it seemed justified.
Seemed we were more upset with the poor play at the time.
It was a stupefying call however.
I would say at least a 20 pt lead against a Heat team missing 3 starters.
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