The Official Venting Thread

[Slo spurs fan]

I have never saw tiest refs in my whole life. Even FIBA refs don´t suck this much.
If I was Spur player, I would punch that in the face.

[Spurologist]

Already privately seething about the officiating in Saturday's one-point loss, the Spurs probably didn't see much to celebrate Monday. Most notably a delay-of-game technical with 3:43 left in the fourth call. And a foul on Bruce Bowen that allowed Nowitzki to tie the game with a pair of free throws with 8.5 seconds left in regulation.

Official Bavetta made both calls. As Spurs coach Gregg Popovich started to leave the court, he paused for a moment, stared at Bavetta, then waved him off.

“The bottom line is that some things you can't control, and that's frustrating,” Popovich said.

Pop is not the man to say about the officials but his reaction after every ball call showed he was steaming. Notice he generalized his view of the atrocious officiating. He never brings up the officials.

[Buddy Holly]

Someone needs to get fined. You know what I mean.

GO OFF ON THE ING REFS HARDCORE.

[ManuTim_best of Fwiendz]

I hope DIRK NOWITZKI, MARK CUBAN, and the REFS get ANALLY GANG-RAPED on 3 separate occasions tomorrow night in the city, by the same FIVE HOBOS!!

[SA210]

Someone needs to get fined. You know what I mean.

GO OFF ON THE ING REFS HARDCORE.

Agreed.

Man, if only I were on that team, I swear I'd go all out worse than Charles.

[whottt]

My rants....

Brent Barry sucked ass tonight. This needs to pull his head out. Granted...he didn't have a lot of options on that inbound...but he needs to stop firing rockets in crunch time and be more careful with the ing ball. Not everyone things and reacts as quick as he does. Not only did that inbounds suck but he fired a rocket at Parker who was camped on the 3 line, with 3 ing seconds left...that was stupid.

Michael Finley didn't. I apologize Mike. But sorry if I still think you are a Rich Man's Shareef Abdur Raheem... le Kryptonite...

Pop is ing up with the small ball at all times.We are getting killed on the glass in crucial moments.

Duncan needs to stop worrying about the officiating...his little jaunt to the end of the court when he was upset over a call...was game....

Bavetta...Actually this was one of the better reffed Bavetta games I have seen...

Bottom line...yes the Refs effed us again...

Bottom line 2...the opportunity to win the game was still in our hands and we squandered it.

Bottom line 3...Yes the Spurs are capable of coming back and winning this series...Whether they will do it or not remains to be seen.

[whottt]

Bottom line 4...Nick Van Exel....

This piece of crap made me wish we had...I can't believe I am ing saying this...Avery Johnson on our bench to play the point. I will never forgive Van Exel for making me think that...

I have never missed on a player like I did on Van Exel, I am embarrased I thought this guy was going to contribute...this guy is complete ...and it's not just because he's old. He's playing like a complete dum .

[whottt]

Bottom line 5....Please Spurs...don't lose to the Mavs, it'll make their fans look slightly non-stupid(just barely) and that would be a travesty. And I do not know if I will ever be able to recover from it...

I don't care if you get swept by the Clippers or Suns in the next round and get blown out by 60 points a game...but please don't lose to the ing Mavs. I beg of you. I don't care if we ever win another le again as long as
I live...please don't lose to the ing Mavs. *sob*whimper*whine*.

This sucks.

[Melmart1]

I do believe I just witnessed history...

[ponky]

Bottom line 5....Please Spurs...don't lose to the Mavs, it'll make their fans look slightly non-stupid(just barely) and that would be a travesty. And I do not know if I will ever be able to recover from it...

I don't care if you get swept by the Clippers or Suns in the next round and get blown out by 60 points a game...but please don't lose to the ing Mavs. I beg of you. I don't care if we ever win another le again as long as
I live...please don't lose to the ing Mavs. *sob*whimper*whine*.

This sucks.

And with a huge smile on my face from having read this post, I go to sleep.

[rwb]

If anything, I think the next game, being in SA, will discourage the kinds of bad calls made in both Dallas games and we can have a more fairly balanced game. Surely the refs want to avoid a hanging posse. But I can't say I'm in favor of the rude chanting by the fans. It doesn't get anyone's sympathies and in fact only makes people have even less respect for our town. So for you Spurs fans who will be at the game representing the rest of us on national TV, please behave like you have some sense. Because if the crowd concentrates on the calls, so will the Spurs and I don't want their constant state of frustration over it cost us the trophy. Help the team by building them up, not tearing other people down. Help them shake it off and keep their heads on the goal!

[Winnipeg_Spur]

One last thing before I go to bed, I'm ing tired of watching Dampier grab, hold and push Duncan. He even does it when the Mavs have the ball, to prevent Duncan from swatting Dirk's weak shots into the ing fourth row. Yet Duncan's the one who gets called for offensive fouls.

What the happened to the league, the best player on the planet can't even get a fair game called against some piece of scrub. He's still dominating him too, every game he's playing against the officials and he still manages to look like the best player in the series. Oh well, no matter how good you are the only way you can get calls is if you've got an owner who's willing to spend huge amounts of money to intimidate the officials. God, I don't even like Nash, but if the Spurs do lose this thing I'd kill to see Steve completely humiliate Cuban all series long again.

[whottt]

I just reread this thread...TimVP, Sparky...WTF...why are you guys so surprised at the officiating in this game? It was Bavetta...No brainer that it was going to be a crappily officiated game....and the Spurs should know this too.

whottt after game 3:
If the good refs are ing up I don't even want to think about what's going to happen when get Salvatore and Bavetta..bar none the tiest refs in the NBA.


Anyway...this wasn't the worst Bavetta game I have ever seen(because there was actually one blown call in our favor, a rarity for a Bavetta game)...but it probably is the costliest...



Anyway...Bavetta aint compared to Bennet "I fouled David Robinson out in 12 minutes" Salvatore...


Salvatore is the worst NBA ref...and we still got him coming up. Spurs cannot worry about the officiating anymore...they are guranteed to get one more horribly officiated game...they gotta play above the refs...because the fatal bullet(Salvatore) is aleady in the gun.

[refhater]

What's tough to swallow is that the Spurs have the best record in the west this year. They are the defending NBA Champions. They have three all-stars on their team. Dallas has one all-star on it's team. So we keep thinking year after year that at some point we're going to get the same calls the Lakers did when we were trying to overtake them. However, that's just not the case. I'm sure any Mav fan will admit that at the worst this series has been officiated evenly. Well that's not what the Spurs faced when we beat the Lakers. So it's really only cheating the Mavs. It's as simple as this, if Dirk drives and gets a call then Tim should get a call on his drive. If Dampier fouls on a shot then Rasho should get the same call. Devin Harris gets a three point play, Tony gets a three point play. I didn't see the Mavs get two delay of game penalties tonight. The other night Tony didn't get a trip call and Dirk did. Two all stars - should be the same call. Just be consistent and don't give free throws to win the game if he doesn't even shoot the ball!

[whottt]

Spurs have also drawn extremely ty ratings in their two finals appearances...

While we can debate all day if there is a bonafide conspiracy...

But there is no doubt that Stern doesn't want to see the Spurs in the finals again and will be happy if they don't make it.

[fyatuk]

Phil Jackson earlier this season said that Cuban has refs scared in Dallas.

Is that like the bad calls that were inevitable in Utah with Malone and Stockton playing. That always pissed me off. But that might have had more to do with Malone and Stockton being the sneakiest people I've ever seen.

[fyatuk]

Star treatment? How about just calling it everytime Dampier fouls him?

No kidding. Looked like Damp and Diop were both trying to bend TD over and impregnate him through the forth quarter. And honestly, how can you call Manu elbowing Nowitski while fighting for rebound position on a made shot, and not call Dampier completely pushing Bowen out of bounds, or Dampier bending duncan over with a high forearm and riding him out to the free throw line?

Consistency man, consistency!

[Manuismysex]

We can blame it on this and we can blame it on that...but at the end of the day our team has not performed to the necessary quailty. End of story. I agree that sometimes the refs can make mistakes, but that's just stupid to place them as the scapegoat. Overall, do you think the Mavs are a better team this year? I'm real dissapointed in the Spurs, right now.

[fyatuk]

We can blame it on this and we can blame it on that...but at the end of the day our team has not performed to the necessary quailty. End of story. I agree that sometimes the refs can make mistakes, but that's just stupid to place them as the scapegoat. Overall, do you think the Mavs are a better team this year? I'm real dissapointed in the Spurs, right now.

True. If Finley doesn't drop that out of bounds play, if Parker hits that layup, if Duncan hits those weird jump shots he almost always does.

The Spurs killed themselves. At worst the refs were an accomplice.

And it's been like that the whole series. Spurs are uncharacteristically not executing down the stretch. That's pissing me off more than anything.

[ManuTim_best of Fwiendz]

I REPEAT...I hope DIRK NOWITZKI, MARK CUBAN, and the REFS get ANALLY GANG-RAPED on 3 separate occasions tonight in the city, by the same FIVE HOBOS!!

[alamo50]

stop Adjusting Our Game Pop!
Play Spurs Ball Damned!!!

[1Parker1]

I'm simply in shock this morning. I kept going over the game over and over again. And it absolutely amazes me. Tim Duncan goes into the 4th quarter with 2...count it 2 fouls, and then within the 4 minutes, he has 5 all of a sudden? Dirk has made ZERO, count it ZERO clutch shots in the 4th quarter of this series. , the MAVS as a whole have made ZERO clutch shots in this series. The one game, Game 1, where the refs allowed them to play the game, without calling a foul and getting the Mavs to the FT line, what happened? Mavs choked.

What pisses me off is that I honestly don't think the Mavs are a better team than the Spurs.

[1Parker1]

Oh, and I've officially joined the AHF bandwagon. Pop's insistence on small ball game plan is not helping the cause. He needs to realize that yes, while it may be putting up points on the board, it's allowing hte Mavs to score 100+ points and outrebound the Spurs in crucial seconds of the game.

[101A]

Spurs +8 in steals.

Turnovers even.

[T Park]

No more ing small ball. This is not what won 63 games. Pop, you are a ing idiot. Play another big. Duncan is not going to defend the post by himself. You need shotblocking to counter this , not speed. Quit adjusting to Avery. It's pathetic. You're playing right into his ing hand. Someone needs to knock some sense into Popovich. Pathatic. Totally pathetic.

If we lose this series, it's on Pop just as much as it's on New York

Yup.

Too bad we don't have a said center to put next to Duncan.

Then your arguement would go from stupid to decent.