Spurs vs. Mavs... will the refs be a series x-factor again?....

[poop]

only in 2006 did we lose cause of the reffing.

in '04 we gave up after fishers bs shot and played like .

[Borosai]

The year is 2009. The championship has already been decided by the gods. Let it go.

[Obstructed_View]

You do remember The Trip Over the Foot, don't you? The one Tim fouled out on?

Describe to me how that's not a series altering call.

I never suggested that one call wasn't bad, but when you compare it to the FACT that the coach benched both starting centers, that one call at the end is meaningless. Besides, it could easily be argued that Duncan wouldn't have had five fouls if there'd been someone other than Horry or Oberto (who was a rookie) in the middle with him. Duncan's first two fouls in that game were on Josh Howard and Marquis Daniels. Duncan had to try to patrol the paint as the only shot blocker through the vast majority of that series.

btw, throwing your opinion out there as fact (that going small ball wasn't the best option against the extremely small lineups mavs trotted out) won't get you any points.

Since you seem to think that Nowitzki + Diop + Dampier in the rotation = "extremely small lineup", I guess I should be grateful that my completely factual and correct assessment isn't to your satisfaction. You might have someone look up the word "fact" for you as well. The only lineup change AJ made was to put Harris in for Griffin after game 1, which makes the lineup exactly two inches shorter. Pop was well into the smallball experiment by the end of the Sacramento series.

[dav4463]

mavs were the flavor of the month back in 06. the mavs and suns were supposed to be the future of the league. rules were changed to keep the spurs and pistons from winning any more les. remember the emphasis on hand checks? that was because precious dirk could not drive to the basket. it bit them in the ass in the finals as d.wade lived at the foul line much like dirk did against the spurs! mavs, suns still have zero les. it will continue. at the end of the year the spurs will still have four les, maybe five, but it is safe to say the mavs and suns will still be stuck on ZERO.