Joey Crawford Might be Coming to Town...

[ElNono]

In my book, the longest we can avoid Eddie Rush, the better.

[VBM]

Dallas @ San Antonio

Scott Foster
Bob Delaney
David Jones


tHERE WILL BE SOME LATE CALL AND CONTROVERSY

Winner...didn't realize it had been posted already.

[FromWayDowntown]

I also don't think Joey's got Game 5 of this series.

There are 3 games tomorrow night (Monday) -- ORL @ CHA, ATL @ MIL, PRT @ PNX. Unless one of today's crew chiefs is going to work a highly-unusual playoff back-to-back, 3 of the 4 chiefs who worked yesterday will work those 3 games. That means, that McCutchen, J. Crawford, Rush, and Derosa. Of those 4, McCutchen, Derosa, and Rush have already worked games in the Phoenix/Portland series, leaving only Joey Crawford as: (a) having worked Saturday; and (b) not having worked a game in PNX/PRT. If form holds, Joey has that game.

That should mean that the crew chief for Game 5 of DAL/SA is one of Derosa, McCutchen, and Rush.

[Bartleby]

I also don't think Joey's got Game 5 of this series.

There are 3 games tomorrow night (Monday) -- ORL @ CHA, ATL @ MIL, PRT @ PNX. Unless one of today's crew chiefs is going to work a highly-unusual playoff back-to-back, 3 of the 4 chiefs who worked yesterday will work those 3 games. That means, that McCutchen, J. Crawford, Rush, and Derosa. Of those 4, McCutchen, Derosa, and Rush have already worked games in the Phoenix/Portland series, leaving only Joey Crawford as: (a) having worked Saturday; and (b) not having worked a game in PNX/PRT. If form holds, Joey has that game.

That should mean that the crew chief for Game 5 of DAL/SA is one of Derosa, McCutchen, and Rush.

Reminds me of a GRE question

[exstatic]

I'm almost 100% certain that Scott Foster is going to be the crew chief for Game 4.

I've said it before, but here's how I get there. There are 8 crew chiefs in this round. The Spurs and Mavs have seen 3 of them -- Bennett Salvatore, Ken Mauer, and Dan Crawford.

There are 4 other chiefs working the Saturday games -- Joey Crawford, Joe Derosa, Monty McCutchen, and Ed Rush.

I presume to things: (1) the league won't repeat a crew chief in a series within the first 4 games (it hasn't done that for as long as I've paid attention); and (2) the league won't have its officials working back-to-backs in playoffs (it almost never does that).

If both of those things are true, it leaves only one possible chief for Game 4 -- Foster.

It also means that for Game 5 and Games 6 and 7, if they become necessary, the the odds are strong that Joey will be the crew chief; at the very least, assuming the Foster guess is correct, we know that Game 5's lead official will come from a pool consisting of today's chiefs.

This. FWD, FTW.
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[exstatic]

I'm gonna try to compile my ref stats but from my last count, the names the Spurs needed to worry about were Eddie F. Rush, Bennett Salvatore, and Jack Nies. I think we are barely .500 when one of these three refs are on the floor.

Our playoff winning pct. with the Crawfords, , and Javie is pretty damn good. I think it's close to .650 or so. I will try to compile numbers to backup my statement.

Nies retired before this year, and supposedly Javie isn't reffing playoff games.

[Aggie Hoopsfan]

I also don't think Joey's got Game 5 of this series.

There are 3 games tomorrow night (Monday) -- ORL @ CHA, ATL @ MIL, PRT @ PNX. Unless one of today's crew chiefs is going to work a highly-unusual playoff back-to-back, 3 of the 4 chiefs who worked yesterday will work those 3 games. That means, that McCutchen, J. Crawford, Rush, and Derosa. Of those 4, McCutchen, Derosa, and Rush have already worked games in the Phoenix/Portland series, leaving only Joey Crawford as: (a) having worked Saturday; and (b) not having worked a game in PNX/PRT. If form holds, Joey has that game.

That should mean that the crew chief for Game 5 of DAL/SA is one of Derosa, McCutchen, and Rush.

Dude you are nails on the ref rotations

I suspect we will see Rush for game 5.

[ShoogarBear]

All things being equal, I'd rather see Joey in a road game than a home game. I get the sense he enjoys sticking it to the home crowd every so often.

[FromWayDowntown]

I suspect we will see Rush for game 5.

We should know with certainty by about 9 am tomorrow.

For what it's worth, I think the 2nd and 3rd officials for Tuesday come from a pool consisting of:

Tony Brothers
Sean Corbin
Marc Davis
Ron Garretson
Eric Lewis
Ed Malloy
Bill Spooner
Derrick Stafford
Tom Washington
Leon Wood

[easjer]

Once again, FWD owns regarding refs and scheduling. Impressive.

[PublicOption]

its funny how the people here already knew just by the ref what kind of game it will be.




THAT IS ING PATHETIC.......why do we watch this ?

[Avitus1]

that bald ot! Spurs FTW!

[shelshor]

Dallas @ San Antonio

Scott Foster
Bob Delaney
David Jones


tHERE WILL BE SOME LATE CALL AND CONTROVERSY

For what its worth:
http://phillyref.com/basketball/nbar...arefs.html#r32
David Jones was born in Ft Worth & lives in Gainesville

[badfish22]

Wait after all this hes not going to ref.

[DPG21920]

Wait after all this hes not going to ref.

[EricB]

Davey jones?! Oh brother....

[slayermin]

our playoff winning pct. is like .670 since pop

It's .619, according to basketball reference.

According to my count, since 2001, here is our playoff record with these refs:

Scott Foster (4-2 .667)
David Jones (1-4 .200)
Bob Delaney (13-7 .650)

And I guess the hate on Joey is warranted. We have lost 5 out of our last 7 playoff games when he's in the house. Overall, since '01, our record with him is (11-7 .611).

Some other notable refs and playoff won/loss since 2001:

James Capers (8-1 .889)
Greg Willard (9-2 .818)
Sean Corbin (4-1 .800)
Dan Crawford (18-6 .750)
Derrick Stafford (8-3 .727)
Bavetta (17-7 .708)
Joe Forte (8-4 .667)
Steve Javie (13-7 .650)
Mark Wunderlich (7-4 .636)
Mike Callahan (14-8 .636)
Joe Derosa (10-6 .625)
Ken Mauer (8-5 .615)
Jim Clark (6-4 .600)
Tom Washington (6-4 .600)
Bernie Fryer (11-8 .579)
Monty McCutchen (6-5 .545)
Ron Garretson (10-9 .526)
Tony Brothers (2-2 .500)
Bill Spooner (4-4 .500)
Jack Nies (7-8 .467)
Bennett Salvatore (10-13 .435)
Eddie F. Rush (8-14 .364)
Tim Donaghy (1-2 .333)
Zach Zarba (0-1 .000)

Since '01, Salvatore and Rush have worked 45 Spurs playoff games between them and 3 together. If my count is right, in 42 playoff games, if one or both of these refs are on the court, we are (17-25 .405).

Makes you wonder, doesn't it?

[Harry Callahan]

Donaghy reffed 3 SA games from 2001 to 2007, and to top it off the W-L is 1-2. If this is accurate, how in the world could the conclusion that SA got preferential treatment ever be drawn as it relates to Donaghy?

Makes no sense.

[slayermin]

Here are some more stats about the refs tonight:

Referee........W-L Pct.-......Avg FT Diff.-.....Avg FTA.....Avg Opp FTA.....PT Diff Avg.....PF Avg.....PA Avg
Scott Foster (4-2 .667)...........-1.3............25.2............26.5............... 3.0............92.3.............89.3
David Jones (1-4 .200)...........0.2............28.6............28. 4...............-5.4............90.2.............95.6
Bob Delaney (13-7 .650)........4.8............25.9............21.1.. .............2.8............95.0.............92.2

[Solid D]

Decent crew - shouldn't be too many ticky-tacky fouls called.

[awktalk]

Do not forget, Crawford's only sin was not the no-call against the Lakers. He also THREW TIM DUNCAN OUT OF A GAME FOR LAUGHING ON THE BENCH!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lu1Wz5JQEz8

[Fpoonsie]

Do not forget, Crawford's only sin was not the no-call against the Lakers. He also THREW TIM DUNCAN OUT OF A GAME FOR LAUGHING ON THE BENCH!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lu1Wz5JQEz8

Tha ?! How was ST not ALL OVER THIS?!?!?

[badfish22]

Tha ?! How was ST not ALL OVER THIS?!?!?

[jimo2305]

http://rofljock.com/dallas-mavericks...antonio-spurs/

[DesignatedT]

joey crawford is such a ing joke. i cant even stand looking at that guy.