Barkley called out the refs?

[Rick Von Braun]

Dirk's vagina.

Been ed three straight times.

Dirk's was ed three straight times!

Whoaa... do you have pictures?

[aaronstampler]

That wasn't a joke, he was comparing them to L.A. and Dallas women. He's always eyeing women and lets the viewers know about it. Anyway, the griping is like icing on the cake in this series.

Aside from that silliness, Barkley has dissed the Mavs for still not playiing D, for playing soft when people like Flip Saunders, Jeff Van Gundy, Magic Johnson have all commented on the difference between this year's Mavericks and the Mavericks from even a year ago. I don't put much stock into what he says, he's all fluffy entertainment.

Um...you still don't play D. We shot 54% last night and the refs didn't bail us out with FTs every time we missed. Our big three got into the lane with zero problems all night. You let Ginobili score 26 in 27 mins, and he can't even jump this year. You let an injured Tony Parker get 33 and an injured Duncan get 28 or whatever it was. You're still _ALLAS.

[Shank]

Dirk's was ed three straight times!

Whoaa... do you have pictures?

Can you read?

[doldrums]

Not just Barkley, Charley Rosen(Fox Sports) called the Bowen foul, the wrong call at the wrong time and staed that Nowitzki pushed him equally. Many commentators are mentioning it as well as many ESPN sports commentators who questioned a few calls down the stretch and why they all went against 1 team. These are not upset Spurs fans but upset NBA fans.

[Rick Von Braun]

Can you read?

Nope... this is why I asked for pictures

[doldrums]

Here's what charley Rosen wrote:

However, where he was awarded 21 free throws in Game 3, Nowitzki still made 15 appearances on the stripe in Game 4 (making 14). Nowitzki used all of his familiar tricks to great advantage: Drives both right and left. Fakes and pulls. Spins and lefty flips.

In the fourth quarter and beyond, Nowitzki was defended by Bowen, his old nemesis, and was effectively contained—except for one of the most critical plays in the game: The Spurs led by two with the clock ticking down in the fourth quarter, when the Mavs ran Nowitzki into the high-post and let him go one-on-one against Bowen. Nowtizki drove left while keeping Bowen at bay with a hostile right elbow, and Bowen responded in kind—with neither player thusly gaining an advantage. It was nothing more than an instance of dueling elbows that's commonly seen in playoff compe ion, especially in crunch-time. The referees, however, tooted Bowen for a foul, thereby allowing Nowitzki to tie the game at the foul-line.

A bad call at a bad time.

It should also be noted that while Nowitzki's 12 shots were abetted by 15 free throws, Duncan took 23 shots and was only rewarded 8 free throws. Overall, Nowitzki had 9 rebounds, 3 assists, and 28 quiet points.

[Shank]

Nope... this is why I asked for pictures

Let's see. Someone before you asked for a picture of Dirk's vagina. I posted one of Pop and labeled that it/he had been ed three straight times. Somewhere in there, you skipped a step. But I'll help you out - I inferred that Pop is Dirk's vagina.

[FromWayDowntown]

So you're saying Dirk has a vagina, then?

I mean, I see where you're going, but I think the notion cuts against you somehow.

What we all know is that Dirk has a forearm and that NBA officials will allow him to use that forearm to gain offensive advantage while calling a touch foul on a defender who tries to negate that advantage.

I'm much more concerned with Dirk's forearm than I am with his vagina.

[Buddy Holly]

Does anyone have video of Charles saying that?

[Brutalis]

I'm not even mad. I'm really truely just sad and feel the upmost sincerity towards the Spurs players for playing such great ball and not being treated fair.

[belac2006]

You Dallas fans are just a bunch of overconfident pieces of turds
who cant admit to what actually took place, yeah say what you wanna say about the Spurs having there chances bla bla bla......bicker all you want.
The point is that the game did not have to come to the point to where the officials pulled your of a team out of a hole...but they did especially on that last BS call on Bruce Bowen. This game should've been decided purely on its merits...but it was not. So quit Bull ting yourselves!

[jn77]

Somewhere on this thread I read a post by a Mavs fan that said the officials are keeping the Spurs in this series. Are you high? If it weren't for the piss poor officiating the spurs would be up three to one and we would be talking aboout the next series instead of what Dirk gets away with. I don't mean to get personal, I know that the Mavs have been on the short end once and a while, but the timing of the bad calls is the crucial factor here. The mavs have never been on the short end while defending a championship. Two games lost on account of ridiculous officiating, but the refs are keeping the spurs in the series Bottom line mavs fans Timmy is keeping us in the series no matter how the refs are trying to hold him, and the rest of the guys down. Spurs in Seven!!

[tetasfromtejas]

You're right. Duncan's crybaby 5-word postgame presser just reeked of class. Bowen yelling directly at the commissioner is nothing but class. Pop dropping little lines about the officials after the past 3 games is all class.

riiiiiggght and this coming from a team that has an owner who walks around with a ing bib wiping the drool off after he complains about the officiating.
All that wad does is stomp his feet and complain

thats why his show tanked, who gives a about an asshole like him and his boring ass tantrums. He is so UNORIGINAL its pathetic.

[jamezyjamez]

Bottom line mavs fans Timmy is keeping us in the series no matter how the refs are trying to hold him, and the rest of the guys down. Spurs in Seven!!

Don't think the other Spurs need anyone holding them down. Seem to be doing just fine at that on their own. Refs are bad - always have been, always will be. This has been the best series I've ever seen (too little to remember those LAL-BOS series very well). The deeper and better team is winning...it's that simple.

[Shank]

riiiiiggght and this coming from a team that has an owner who walks around with a ing bib wiping the drool off after he complains about the officiating.
All that wad does is stomp his feet and complain

thats why his show tanked, who gives a about an asshole like him and his boring ass tantrums. He is so UNORIGINAL its pathetic.

Show me one link, one sentence where Cuban has said a single word about the officiating in this or the Memphis series. And before you go get the post from Cuban's blog, I'll cut you off and tell you that he wrote that before the playoffs even started and it wasn't specific to one team.

"that's why his show tanked". Wow. You're really reaching.

[Leetonidas]

Don't think the other Spurs need anyone holding them down. Seem to be doing just fine at that on their own. Refs are bad - always have been, always will be. This has been the best series I've ever seen (too little to remember those LAL-BOS series very well). The deeper and better team is winning...it's that simple.

I don't think the Mavs are better, but I think their depth is helping them. Along with their youth.

It's more of an even match. If one call goes the Spurs way, we win. It comes down to that. These teams are pretty damn evenly matched. The way Game 3 was, Game 4 shouldn't have ended the same way. A 2-2 series is much more enticing than a 3-1 series.

[Sway]

"Barkley is a Mavs hater from way back...he's just whining like all of the Spurs fans..."

Barkley isnt a "Mavs hater"...I will however agree that he may be a "Dirk" hater. Everyone knows Barkley doesnt like big men that lack toughness.

[spur4life]

Barkley is a loud mouth fool who never won a ring

suddenly you guys wanna start paying attention to what he says, just coz he agrees with you? lol

You don't necessarily have to win a ring to be a gret basketballer...besides he is a HOFer....it shows that you are a basketball novice!!

[DubMcDub]

Barkley is a gambling addict who suffers from severe postgame ups and downs depending on whether or not the bets he took won each particular night.

Who the cares what he says.

[jmard5]

I'm visiting in Dallas this week and even one of the local Dallas sportscastere showed some of the bad calls from the Sat. game against the Spurs and made some sly references as to how Cuban wouldn't be calling the refs names anymore.

A long time Mav player, Ron Harper also allowed as how the Mavs got some breaks.

Nevertheless, we've lost a couple of close games and will probably lose the series.

I just don't get it. Really.

San Antonio knows it. The whole world have seen it. Other teams' fans acknowledged it. Sport sites printed it. Heck, now even some Dallas local sportscasters mentioned it.

Now why won't you Mavs fans trolling here just admit it.

[belac2006]

Show me one link, one sentence where Cuban has said a single word about the officiating in this or the Memphis series. And before you go get the post from Cuban's blog, I'll cut you off and tell you that he wrote that before the playoffs even started and it wasn't specific to one team.

"that's why his show tanked". Wow. You're really reaching.

You ing idiotic ignorant piece of Mav- fan...take a look at this article by Marc Stein!

It's not often that NBA commissioner David Stern hears criticism of his referees during a playoff game.

But it happened Monday night. Stern occupied a mid-court seat just behind the floor-level press section for Game 4 in Dallas.

That made him easy to spot for Mavericks owner Mark Cuban, who shouted his displeasure in Stern's direction during a run of questionable whistles in the third quarter. Stern did not appear to acknowledge the complaints.

Stern's seat, incidentally, was in a section typically reserved for Eva Longoria when the Spurs are at American Airlines Center.

Tony Parker's girlfriend was moved to higher-up seats on the opposite side of the floor to accomodate Stern and new NBA deputy commissioner Adam Silver.

-- Marc Stein in Dallas

[ponky]

You ing idiotic ignorant piece of Mav- fan...take a look at this article by Marc Stein!

It's not often that NBA commissioner David Stern hears criticism of his referees during a playoff game.

But it happened Monday night. Stern occupied a mid-court seat just behind the floor-level press section for Game 4 in Dallas.

That made him easy to spot for Mavericks owner Mark Cuban, who shouted his displeasure in Stern's direction during a run of questionable whistles in the third quarter. Stern did not appear to acknowledge the complaints.

Stern's seat, incidentally, was in a section typically reserved for Eva Longoria when the Spurs are at American Airlines Center.

Tony Parker's girlfriend was moved to higher-up seats on the opposite side of the floor to accomodate Stern and new NBA deputy commissioner Adam Silver.

-- Marc Stein in Dallas

Wow, way to do a hack job on Stein's article. You left out the part about the fact that bad calls went both ways...shall I post it for you? He never once mentioned bad calls favoring the Mavs.

HERE IT IS, the relevant part:

The Spurs actually started far sharper Monday night than they did in Saturday's 104-103 disappointment. They rediscovered Tony Parker, who finally shook off his twin thigh bruises to go back at Harris and register a slump-busting 33 points, his career playoff high. They even seemed poised to survive Manu Ginobili's sixth foul with 2:28 to play and a string of questionable whistles that enraged both teams at various points. Yet when Duncan couldn't convert with a jump hook over Dampier at the regulation buzzer, you could sense that the Spurs -- increasingly looking more creaky than experienced -- wouldn't be able to keep up for five more minutes.

OH YES, YOU FORGOT THIS PART FROM THE SECTION IN WHICH YOU TOOK THE ABOVE EXCERPT:

Something similar happened late in the fourth quarter, when San Antonio's Bruce Bowen was called for a foul on Dirk Nowitzki with 8.5 seconds left in regulation and the Mavericks trailing by two.

As Nowitzki set about sinking his two game-tying free throws, an incredulous Bowen faced Stern's section and could be heard shouting: "This is terrible."
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BTW, Cuban was at the game as a fan, he wasn't speaking to the media, he was yelling about calls like most fans do at the game. Kinda like when the Spurs went all puerile and started screaming "Javie sucks"

[Shank]

You ing idiotic ignorant piece of Mav- fan...take a look at this article by Marc Stein!

It's not often that NBA commissioner David Stern hears criticism of his referees during a playoff game.

But it happened Monday night. Stern occupied a mid-court seat just behind the floor-level press section for Game 4 in Dallas.

That made him easy to spot for Mavericks owner Mark Cuban, who shouted his displeasure in Stern's direction during a run of questionable whistles in the third quarter. Stern did not appear to acknowledge the complaints.

Stern's seat, incidentally, was in a section typically reserved for Eva Longoria when the Spurs are at American Airlines Center.

Tony Parker's girlfriend was moved to higher-up seats on the opposite side of the floor to accomodate Stern and new NBA deputy commissioner Adam Silver.

-- Marc Stein in Dallas

I believe you were already called out on this, Nancy. Marc Stein made one ing note about this in over 2 weeks of playoff play. You really think Cuban was the only one yelling at Stern during Monday night's game?

You and all your pussy Spurs friends HONESTLY ING BELIEVE THAT THE GAMES ARE BEING RIGGED IN THE MAVS FAVOR? THAT'S HOW YOU THINK, YOU PATHETIC PIECE OF ? Take a step back and look at yourself for the sniveling, sucking piece of dog you really are. Pull your ing head out of your ass.

[SPARKY]

The Mavs have been whining about the refs for years. Spurs fans question Nowitzki getting 50 FTs over 3 games and they're the whiners? Please. Mavs fan doesn't even know their own team if they think the complaints of Spurs fans are somehow beyond the pale.

[smeagol]

Barkley is a gambling addict who suffers from severe postgame ups and downs depending on whether or not the bets he took won each particular night.

Who the cares what he says.

Sure, you don't like what he says so he is an addict.

Stupid troll.