What's the excuse now?

[Booharv]

Biggest waste of talent ever. Dude was going to be a no-brainer HoFer.

I never got to see Tarpley much being an east coaster (I became a Spurs fan from those cheesy Mr. Robinson's neighborhood commercials that were on when I was a kid), I just looked at Tarpley's stats at stats reference, dude had a 22.6 Rebound Rate in 1987-88. He averaged 11.8 rebounds a game that year in only 28.5 mpg (!), plus it looked like he could score too. Damn.

[Findog]

Sorry to hear that FD. I am absolutely shocked that RC benched Caron the entire 2nd half for JJB. You cannot do that to one of your star players. Not only does it create locker room issues and resentment, it crushes their confidence.

I was really amazed to see it play out that way, and I would be stunned if Caron was not hurt.

I can understand benching a guy for a quarter. Jefferson played much better in G2 after Pop called him out. Butler's not a bad guy or a headcase like Josh Howard. Benching him for the entire second quarter would've been sufficient for getting your point across. From what I can gather, the Mavs had a great chance at getting this one and Carlisle stuck with that lineup too long. Barea gave this team a lift but he averages like 10 mpg. He was out there for 31 without a break. Dampier was apparently moving very slow at the end too. This loss is on Carlisle, for what it's worth from a guy that didn't watch the game.

I did manage to see the final 30 seconds or so and saw a clip of Tony Parker pushing off and committing an obvious offensive foul on JJ Barea on one of his clutch jumpers at the end. I'm not ing about that call, as you cannot expect JJ Barea to have the respect of the refs and get that call. In fact, I would bet Parker pushed off knowing the refs didn't have the balls to make that call. The point is, only bad things can happen if you let JJ Barea check Tony Parker in the final part of a game. Marion can't come back in for defensive purposes for those final possessions? He's struggling on the offensive end, but his defense has been fine. He can't bother Parker with his length? If you're checking Parker at the end of the game with Barea, you deserve what you get.

[NewJerSpur]

It was a bad time for Barea to not sell the call. He stumbled a bit a kind of looked over for the call.....might have gotten it if he flew a little bit further or even hit the ground on a delay.

[ShoogarBear]

Obvious offensive foul, huh?

[Ghazi]

I thought Barea flopped on that play. Didn't mind the no call

My gripe is the charge on Dirk when Bonner really wasn't set.

alas, on to game 4 for these MEN in blue