It was laughable...the whole officiating the whole game...hence the laughing.
duh!
Wow...you obviously haven't read that I've posted.
I'M NOT JUSTIFYING OR AGREEING WITH WHAT CRAWFORD DID!!
Yesterday people here were going crazy saying that Duncan wasn't looking at Crawford, that other players were laughing too (they were, after the fact), etc etc. I looked at the video to try to figure out what set Crawford off. That's all I'm saying...
That's all you're saying today, after the fact. After the game you said Duncan deserved it. Forget it.
you love to get cussed out huh?Wow...you obviously haven't read that I've posted.
I'M NOT JUSTIFYING OR AGREEING WITH WHAT CRAWFORD DID!!
Yesterday people here were going crazy saying that Duncan wasn't looking at Crawford, that other players were laughing too (they were, after the fact), etc etc. I looked at the video to try to figure out what set Crawford off. That's all I'm saying...
stop ing saying that Duncan was looking at Crawford. SO ING WHAT IF HE WAS? that does not change the fact that Crawford is a nut who doesn't belong on the court.
you are sounding ing stupid as .
...it's fun to get Spurs fans going sometimes...
wow
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If you add the F word into all of your posts, Leonard, you'll come off sounding tougher.
one of my favorite band names is tornado of urine.
I like "If You See Kay".
If Crawford did this to Dirk than Stern wouldn't have done anything since Stern hates Cuban. We obviously know whose side Stern is on and it isn't the mavs.
You have to infect more threads with your idiocy?
Yeah, he looked at him. So ing what? (like everyone else has asked you)
Is that another rule I didn't know about?
You're wack.
Now this wouldn't surprise me and I wonder from what blog site they got these spread sheets from
Could you please lend me your what if crystal ball? Mavs fans seems to have them quite handy all the time, such as "if" the refs were calling a good game in last year's finals, etc .....
I would like to know what would happen to me if Warren Buffet gave that $30 billion to me instead of the Gates Foundation.
I'm a mavs fan. I think Crawford is an idiot. I think tossing Tim out was quite possibly one of the most ludicrous techs I've ever seen in my entire time watching the NBA. I'm glad Crawford has been suspended the rest of the season, and Tim didn't deserve the giant fine he got.
Leonard, you could learn alot from this guy's objectivity. ^
Wow...you obviously haven't read that I've posted.
I'M NOT JUSTIFYING OR AGREEING WITH WHAT CRAWFORD DID!!
Yesterday people here were going crazy saying that Duncan wasn't looking at Crawford, that other players were laughing too (they were, after the fact), etc etc. I looked at the video to try to figure out what set Crawford off. That's all I'm saying...
You keep saying that like a mantra---"Serenity Now!"
But as soon as you say "But Timmy laughed and taunted him," you automatically justify that prick's ejection of Tim Duncan.
See Leo--you cannot have it both ways.
If there was undisputed proof that Tim Duncan was mocking and humuliating a ref in an intentional manner, that by itself would have to justify Crawford's actions.
So what if many fans argue that Duncan did not do that? Apparently David Stern is also of the same opinion--that's why he threw Crawford out of the game.
You have to understand this is a very emotional subject for Spurs fans. If the roles were reversed and Dirk was thrown out--and the Mavs got a 3rd seed and not a 2nd seed as a result--you cannot dispute that:
1. Cuban would amass the largest fines in sports history within 10 minutes of his postgame comments;
2. Mav fans would meet by the thousands on the grassy knoll looking for the other gunmen after Dirk;
3. The Dallas County DA's office would issue immediate warrants for Joey Crawford's arrest;
4. Guys like you would be innundating the airwaves and cybernet with brand new websites wherein they would dissect the video of the event--frame by frame (move over Abraham Zapruder) to show the direct angle of Dirk's face in proportion to the line of sight to Joey Crawford's view. Some SMU geek would probably publish a paper within a week arguing that he not only solved the JFK murder--but the fact that Joey Crawford's father was in fact the second gunman standing there with Lee Harvey Oswald...
Last edited by Man of Steel; 04-18-2007 at 01:38 AM.
I think LEONARD can only understand thesmilies.
Poor Leo.
Spent all that time dissecting the videos to support a really ed up theory i.e., "but Tim Duncan was looking at him when he laughed and I can prove it."
This is what really pisses ,e off about Mav fans.
The entire world has thrown its weight against Crawford.
No one justifies the theory that underlies Crawford's rationale for ejecting Duncan.
Except the ing Mav fans on their own stupid websites who are so damn afraid of Duncan that they latch onto any possible excuse that would cause him to miss the entire fourth quarter going against Dirk and Howard.
Their mangled logic is so twisted and ed up that they show their true colors--a bunch of dip s so hungry for a le that they would stand alone in support of the worst action by an NBA official in modern times.
The way I heard Stern come across on the Dan Patrick show was basically:
It doesn't matter what Tim Duncan does, you can't eject him. He didn't care if Duncan was laughing or mocking or anything. He doesn't want officials impacting the game with technicals.
With Don Nelson in 2003, he was over near midcourt pestering Crawford, Nelson got a technical and told him to go back to the bench, Nelson refused. I don't think asking a coach to go back toward the bench is that unreasonable, and probably within his power, but when Nelson refuses it forces Joey's hand. He was sent in to officiate that game to bring order, and he decided if Nelson wasn't going to listen he was going to get kicked out. At the time, people thought Nelson was out of line. It's coming out now that Stern thought Crawford was way out of line.
I think it's pretty clear that Duncan didn't have any respect for Crawford and was acting accordingly. I don't think Duncan should have been ejected, but I think an official should have the right to tell a player to quit complaining and have him obey. Players miss defensive assignments because they're yelling at the refs for missed calls; I think officials miss calls sometimes because they're distracted by complaining players.
Stop crying about a Duncan conspiracy
It's my duty to put my foot down when the whining on this blog gets out of hand. And that's the case on the Joey Crawford-Tim Duncan issue.
Many of you, dear Mavs fans, believe that this is about David Stern protecting Duncan like he's some kind of NBA golden boy. Please tell me how making Duncan untouchable benefits the league.
Duncan is an all-time great, but he's boring and makes marketing types yawn. San Antonio is a rinky-dink market by pro sports standards, making his Q rating even more miniscule. The TV ratings for the Spurs' Finals appearances resembled breathalyzer results, for Pete's sake.
Stern might be a weasel, but he ain't stupid. If anything, he'd be looking for ways to rig the Western Conference playoffs to make it tougher on the Spurs. The NBA and its TV buddies benefit if the Suns and Mavs play a bunch of 111-109 games in the conference finals, instead of the Mavs and Spurs slugging it out in 88-86 affairs.
The Rabbit-Eared Horse's Rear ref had his wrist slapped before when he made his fragile ego more important than the game. He did it again, and he got what he deserved.
interesting, this same thing pisses me off about lots of spurs fans when it comes to the officiating of games 3 and 4 last year during the wcf. no one really gave a except for the silly spurs fans going ape over it like it was the end of the freakin' world. there was nothing wrong with the officiating in the spurs/mavs series OR the heat/mavs series but out of the two series, there were a couple of non-mavs talking about the latter and no one but spurs fans blathering on about the former. oh, and although i've already state my opinion, tim duncan is a whiny little baby who focuses too much on the foul calls (and who the knows why with his ty free throwing) but no way did he deserve the ejection and i'm happy crawford is out, he's not someone i like to see when the mavericks play
Yeah the spurs actually got more free throws for the series.
with tim duncan garnering more in that series than any other player on the floor...now just imagine if he actually made those free throws, it would've been a different story and the spurs fans might be celebrating four rings with a possible fifth this season (anything's possible in my book this season)...but he didn't and you can all you want about officiating but it's not going to change the fact that even if tim duncan got more free throws than he already gets, it just means he'll miss more
heh, breathalyzer....that's actually pretty good.
I hope for dear God (and likely to happen) for a Suns-Mavs WCF repeat
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