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And a pattern. Who cares if the calls go against NVE. Duncan fouling out, Ginobili having an MVP game FOULING OUT AFTER 26 MINUTES!!. It's the pattern.
Yes, that's exactly what I said. <sigh>
Did you even read my post? I was trying to throw you a bone. You're new here and have (had) an opportunity to prove to be an intelligent contributor from another team.
Please read the post 5 minutes prior to yours. Maybe it will clear things up a bit for you.
And a pattern. Who cares if the calls go against NVE. Duncan fouling out, Ginobili having an MVP game FOULING OUT AFTER 26 MINUTES!!. It's the pattern.
Like I said before, reading comprehension much? Did I say ALL the foul calls in crunch time were bogus? I said SOME.
Sheesh. I guess our schools do need more funding.
The irony knows no bounds.
Whatever the reason these are the facts :
Duncan and Ginobili have already fouled out this series. Bowen has had 5 in a crucial time. Has Nowitzki or Terry or Harris or Howard even had more than 4 in a game?
No, now you'll get the argument that Diop and Dampier fouling out = Duncan and Ginobili, even tho the Mavs' strategy is to foul TD as much as possible.
Exactly. I thought about that after posting so let me add now --
NO -- using up 12 fouls doesn't equal having key players taken out of games.
Oh, really? Then explain to me what AJ is doing when he's jumping up and down on the sidelines and halfway on the court with the players during a game...
How'd Bowen foul Nowitzki near the end of regulation in game 4? How does Nowitzki get 24 trips to the line in a game? Yeah, that's legit.
It's not just Spurs complaining about bad calls in games 3 and 4. It has been all over the media the past week or so. Only Dallas homers are too blind to see it.
The way a Mavs fan sees it, that punch to the nuts should have been a foul on Finley's balls.
Charlie and Chance talked this morning with a Dallas media guy and he said that Jason Terry had been suspended 3 times before (when he was in Atlanta) for throwing a punch and the league looks at him as a repeat offender. He also said the video clearly shows that it was a punch and the rules are the rules.
Tough break for Dallas - but all the blame goes squarely on Jason Terry!!
Love it! Exactly. HOW DARE FINLEY'S JEWELS GET IN THE WAY OF HIS FIST!!!!
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcont....22121a6e.html
Mavs, Cuban hit where it hurts
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But it was a punch. The league doesn't tolerate it; can't tolerate it. Terry has no one to blame except himself – at least for losing his cool.
Having been found out, however, after no one saw anything untoward at first, is something Terry can share with his boss.
Had the fist been on the opposition's arm, you can bet a tape would've been overnighted from Dallas to New York pointing out the transgression and calling for justice. "
Man Law #1
You never EVER sucker punch another guy in the nuts!
Mavs, Cuban hit where it hurts
11:47 PM CDT on Thursday, May 18, 2006
It should've been no surprise that Mark Cuban ventured into the film business a few years ago. He's shown a keen interest in the visual arts during most of his time as Mavericks owner.
Ask Chris Webber. Shaquille O'Neal. Yao Ming.
All became subjects of Cuban productions in recent years, productions he was so proud of that he shared them with the league office. Wanted it to see how Webber dragged his pivot foot and the referees never called it. How Shaq always stepped across the free throw line before his shot hit anything. How Yao set moving screens that weren't drawing whistles.
The chicken came home to roost Thursday.
How else to explain the sudden unexpected suspension of starting guard Jason Terry for tonight's Game 6? The league announced late Thursday afternoon that it was benching Terry for punching Michael Finley during a scrum with seconds left in Game 5.
Finley was unusually agitated after the grappling. Terry wasn't assessed a foul on the play. No one seemed to see anything unseemly happen. A jump ball was called.
But the Spurs went Cuban on the Mavericks sometime after the game. They sent a tape to the league office that showed Terry landing a punch to Finley's groin.
It was an easy decision for league disciplinarian Stu Jackson, who earlier in this postseason tossed Miami's Udonis Haslem for a game for angrily throwing his mouthpiece in the direction of an official.
Cuban, not surprisingly, disagreed with Jackson's penalty. A fine was due, he said, but not a suspension.
Oh, well. Live by Netflix, die by Netflix.
Cuban isn't the only NBA team boss who sends the league office tape. He's just made his team one of the biggest exercisers of the practice.
Now the Mavericks' great opportunity to move past the Spurs in the playoffs for the first time is in great jeopardy. With Terry and the home court, where the Spurs haven't beaten the Mavericks in two games during this series, it seemed like tonight's game was theirs to lose. With Terry in civvies, it will be the Spurs' to lose. This will test coach of the year Avery Johnson and his staff like they haven't been all year.
What, after all, are they to do? Return Adrian Griffin to the starting lineup? Griffin teamed with Terry until it became apparent after Game 1 that the team was better with Devin Harris joining Terry in the backcourt and trying to run past the Spurs. Griffin hasn't even played the last three games.
How about starting Marquis Daniels? Johnson has had to defend Daniels as being one of "his guys" because he seems so often to have little patience for any Daniels miscue, as was the case early in this series, when he snatched Daniels after a horrible turnover and foul.
Or how about return Jerry Stackhouse to a starter's role and sacrifice all that microwaved offense he brings off the bench? The bench is short of scorers as it is.
Of course, the NBA conspiracy theorists among us are probably saying that this is all a grand scheme by the league to somehow ensure that the most-anticipated matchup of the postseason, which is living up to expectations and then some, keeps going until the deciding Game 7 in San Antonio.
But that's pure poppy . Don King isn't running this show. And the way these playoffs have been going, what with all the overtimes and buzzer-beaters and nail-biters and upsets, the league doesn't need to orchestrate any theater.
The bottom line is that Terry, one of a locker room full of good guys for the Mavericks, lost his cool for a split second and, as a result, got what anyone else who committed the offense he did would get: a game off.
It wasn't Raja Bell clotheslining Kobe Bryant, which Bell did foolishly in Game 5 of the Suns' opening-round series against the Lakers to draw a Game 6 suspension. It wasn't Ron Artest elbowing Manu Ginobili in the head in the opener of the Kings-Spurs series, which cost the historically feisty Artest a Game 2 appearance. It wasn't Miami's James Posey bum-rushing Chicago's Kirk Hinrich, which cost Posey a game in the Heat-Bulls opening-round series.
But it was a punch. The league doesn't tolerate it; can't tolerate it. Terry has no one to blame except himself – at least for losing his cool.
Having been found out, however, after no one saw anything untoward at first, is something Terry can share with his boss.
Had the fist been on the opposition's arm, you can bet a tape would've been overnighted from Dallas to New York pointing out the transgression and calling for justice.dallas PAPER
Can not believe that artcile is from dallas paper
cuban will buy that paper out
There's no doubt about that, and I think it's curious that Mavericks fans are exorcised over the fact that the Spurs asked the league to examine the tape. Cuban was sending the same sorts of tapes to the league last year, complaining about Yao Ming's moving screens. I'd be hard-pressed to believe that the proliferation of travelling calls in Game 4 wasn't preceded by the delivery of a tape from the Mavs to the league office complaining about Tony Parker travelling. Every team asks the league to look at something from time to time. This is hardly unusual and Mavericks fans, of all NBA fans, should know that by now.
It's been a long night, but I think Cuban was also complaining on the radio yesterday that a tape was sent in.
what gets me is that cuban makes remarks about how ginobili didn't do anything about it. IS it the MAN thing to do... to stand up for his team mate and ask another man ...."hey don't mess with my man's nuts" or was he suppose to retalliate? and punch terry in the nuts too?
That's as ironic as anything.
Oh, well. Live by Netflix, die by Netflix.
I thought Cubes swore that Finley was laying on Terry's head when the punch was thrown. That photo sure makes it appear that Terry is in process with the punch and Finley appears to be getting up.
I understand some of where Cuban is coming from, but taking a completely non-objective position about what happened and then, in essence, giving your guy a pass for acting stupidly is ridiculous.
Much to you guys' disbelief, this is how most Dallas people I've talked to feel. Ball your fist, throw it, get suspended. No questions asked. Cuban's just a blind homer, much like just about everyone on here.
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