Welcome to it's illegal to breathe on Dirk night

[zepn]

Dude, you're ing terrible at this.

Dude, still need help finding your car? Are pussy farts still funny to you? What are you, 12?

If "this" is what you value then I'm GLAD I'm terrible at it. You come here for snipes and fart jokes, not basketball conversation. You're a waste of thread space. Get the out.

[samikeyp]

Oh pssssshhh what a load of garbage!

it just seems to me like you guys ate your greasy tacos too fast and spewed diarrhea all your keyboards.

You're just mad because you thought it was actually illegal to breathe on Dirk which would have ruined your post-game plans for him.

[Cry Havoc]

I was glad to see the Spurs just stop talking to officials and play the game. They're a much better club when they do that.

I did think that there was a pretty stark disparity between the amount of contact that it took, last night, for Dirk to get to the line and the amount of contact the Mavs were permitted to inflict on Duncan. That was true even when Dirk ventured below the free throw line and into the lane in the first half. In the second half, they appeared to clean it up.

I do think that both Joe Forte and Tom Washington -- each of whom waited for a Dirk miss to call a foul, at least one of which didn't appear to be there -- were guessing a bit. Forte was terrible for the most part last night -- what appeared to be phantom fouls on a Dirk miss, on Terry's end of the half shot, and on the mysterious defensive 3 when it sure appeared in the building that less than 3 seconds had elapsed on the shot clock.

+1

Pop was getting upset at one point. When that happens, you know something isn't right. The two extremely late phantom fouls on Dirk were absolutely atrocious calls, and an over the back against Dampier was actually called a foul on Bonner.

The refs were the only thing keeping the game from being a complete blowout in the first half. But the Spurs stayed aggressive and continued to take over the game, and the refs decided to let things go in the 3rd and 4th quarters.

I only fear what the officiating will be like in Dallas.

[baseline bum]

The no-call on Dampier's "screen" on Bowen that freed Barea for the three was garbage. That would have been a holding call in the NFL.