Tonight's Refs Are...

[Trainwreck2100]

There's no way Crawford works as late as game 6 so game 2 is the best game to have him.

[FromWayDowntown]

Unless the league has quietly taken disciplinary action against Joey, he's going to work 2 games in this series if it goes the distance. History says that he'll work either Game 3 or Game 4 and then will work either Game 6 or (more likely Game 7).

Assuming, again, there's been no discipline against the officials from Game 4 of the ECF, I think the odds are pretty good that the 12 Finals officials are:

CREW CHIEFS
1. Monty McCutchen
2. Danny Crawford
3. Scott Foster
4. Joey Crawford

OTHERS
5. Mike Callahan
6. Ken Mauer
7. Derrick Stafford
8. Tony Brothers
9. Jason Phillips
10. Bill Kennedy
11. Marc Davis
12. Ed Malloy

James Capers and Tom Washington might be in the mix. Anyone else seems like a long shot at this point.

[easjer]

What are the issues with Danny Crawford? I always thought he was pretty consistent and generally fair-minded (unaffected by home/road teams).

Not a Foster or McCutcheon fan. Not a Joey Crawford fan either, but credit where it's due, he's been remarkably restrained and even in our games thus far.

But really, yeah, they're going to have to play as cleanly as possible and get a quick feel for where the officiating is headed (ticky-tack, free physicality, moving screens, fouls off the ball or lack thereof . . .) and be rapidly adjusting. I expect the officiating to drive Spurs fans insane (warranted or not).

[T Park]

Just know that there are only 12 officials working this round (unless the league has made a sudden change of its assignments -- it's had 12 Finals officials every year since 1999) and 9 of them will likely work twice if the series goes 7.

Ok Joey in games 2 and 6 please

[TheGreatYacht]

Officiating crew today....

Ken Mauer

2016-2017 regular season stats:
Home team - 57.1 W%, 23.1FTA
Away team - 42.9 W%, 24.5FTA
2016-2017 playoffs stats (4 games):
Home team - 50.0 W%, 30.5FTA
Away team - 50.0 W%, 25.3FTA

Ed Malloy

2016-2017 regular season stats:
Home team - 63.8 W%, 23FTA
Away team - 36.2 W%, 21.2FTA
2016-2017 playoffs stats (4 games):
Home team - 75.0 W%, 29.5FTA
Away team - 25.0 W%, 20.8FTA

Josh Tiven

2016-2017 regular season stats:
Home team - 55.1 W%, 23.7FTA
Away team - 44.9 W%, 23FTA
2016-2017 playoffs stats (2 games):
Home team - 50.0 W%, 28.5FTA
Away team - 50.0 W%, 25.0FTA

[look_at_g_shred]

Maurer was the one that called the phantom foul on LMA iirc

[RD2191]

Officiating crew today....

Ken Mauer

2016-2017 regular season stats:
Home team - 57.1 W%, 23.1FTA
Away team - 42.9 W%, 24.5FTA
2016-2017 playoffs stats (4 games):
Home team - 50.0 W%, 30.5FTA
Away team - 50.0 W%, 25.3FTA

Ed Malloy

2016-2017 regular season stats:
Home team - 63.8 W%, 23FTA
Away team - 36.2 W%, 21.2FTA
2016-2017 playoffs stats (4 games):
Home team - 75.0 W%, 29.5FTA
Away team - 25.0 W%, 20.8FTA

Josh Tiven

2016-2017 regular season stats:
Home team - 55.1 W%, 23.7FTA
Away team - 44.9 W%, 23FTA
2016-2017 playoffs stats (2 games):
Home team - 50.0 W%, 28.5FTA
Away team - 50.0 W%, 25.0FTA

Well, we ain't winning tonight.

[Amuseddaysleeper]

Ugh, brutal refs for tonight. Mauer and Malloy suck!

[Robz4000]

Yeah that's about the worst officiating crew you could ask for. I'd prolly prefer Tony Brothers over Ken Mauer. Ed Malloy is pretty damn awful too.

[DesignatedT]

Scott Foster is worse

[TheGreatYacht]

Hopefully the crowd ain't taking their tonight (like they usually do) and let themselves be heard after every call like the Memphis crowd