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Have nothing against them
Ken Mauer
James Capers
Ed Malloy
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Jason Phillips
Have nothing against them
Malloy looks like he's Mafia..
Ken Mauer
Ken Mauer
2012 Playoffs: 12th game
Career Playoffs: 137th game
Career Conf. Finals: 23rd game (2nd in 2012)
Road Teams: 24-39 since 2007; 4-7 in 2012
Spurs
All-Time Playoffs: 12-7
Road Playoffs: 6-4
Conference Finals: 2-1
2012 Playoffs: 2-0 (1-0 on road)(won Game 3 at Utah; won Game 2 v. LAC)
2011-12 Regular Season: 0-3 (lost at OKC, lost at MIA, lost at UTH)
Thunder
All-Time Playoffs: 2-3
Home Playoffs: 1-2
Conference Finals: 0-1 (0-1 at home)(lost Game 4 2011 WCF v. DAL)
2012 Playoffs: 2-0 (won Game 4 2012 WCSF at LAL, won Game 2 2012 WCFR v. DAL)
James Capers
2012 Playoffs: 9th game
Career Playoffs: 52nd game
Career Conf. Finals: 4th game (2nd in 2012)
Road Teams: 14-13 since 2007; 2-6 in 2012
Spurs
All-Time Playoffs: 10-2
Road Playoffs: 6-0
Conference Finals: none
2012 Playoffs: 2-0 (won Game 3 at Utah; won Game 4 at LAC)
2011-12 Regular Season: 3-0 (won v. GST, won at TOR, won v. UTH (April))
Thunder
All-Time Playoffs: 1-0
Home Playoffs: 1-0 (won Game 2 of 2012 WCFR v. DAL)
Conference Finals: none
2012 Playoffs: 1-0
Ed Malloy
2012 Playoffs: 9th game
Career Playoffs:31st game
Career Conf. Finals: 4th game (2nd in 2012)
Road Teams: 9-17 since 2008; 3-5 in 2012
Spurs
All-Time Playoffs: 1-1
Road Playoffs: none
Conference Finals: none
2012 Playoffs: 1-0 (won game 2 v. UTH)
2011-12 Regular Season: 2-2 (lost at MIL, lost v. SAC, won v. DAL (March), won @ PNX (April))
Thunder
All-Time Playoffs: 1-0
Home Playoffs: 1-0 (won Game 7 of 2011 WCSF v. MEM)
Conference Finals: none
2012 Playoffs: none
General Thoughts:
* fairly inexperienced crew at this level (compare to Game 3 crew where each had worked at least 85 playoff games, including double-digit conference finals games). My general inclination is to believe that inexperience, combined with a hostile environment like OKC's arena is a big benefit to the home team -- officials are more likely to be carried away with the emotion of the crowd.
* Malloy has had a very rough 2012 playoffs, but continues to work, which either suggests that the league hasn't been swayed by the considerable criticism he's faced -- particularly for the calls in his two games in Miami -- or has set up its schedule and won't deviate from that, no matter how bad he's been. Malloy is also a Joey Crawford disciple (they both attended the same high school in Philadelphia, though many years apart); I've long thought that he's chosen to follow Joey's style.
* Mauer may have taken over for Steve Javie as the elite official you'd most want to have on the floor for a road playoff game; road teams consistently have their best winning percentages in games Mauer has called (7-4 in 2009, 6-7 in 2010, 5-4 in 2011, 4-7 in 2012). For whatever it's worth, one of the Spurs' conference finals wins in Mauer games is their win in Game 4 of the 2007 WCF at Utah, where Mauer, Javie, and Joe Derosa disregarded a crazy Utah crowd to continue to make correct calls, even if that meant they benefitted the Spurs.
Were screwed
I like james and ken. not liking eddie as of late...
No Joey. The rest will take care of itself.
big game for such a inexperiece crew not thrilled
big key is how phyisical will they allow the thunder to be with parker
and spurs with durant
Yeah, these damn refs are gonna turn the ball over 21 times like they did in game 3! No, wait ...
it will depend on how phyiscally they let the thunder be
We make more of this than we should. It's confirmation bias at its finest.
We don't need the refs to help us lose, we did a fine job on our own.
I don't like Ken Mauer at all.
didnt mauer ref that debacle in miami game 2.
league is trying to extend the series.
I've always thought Ken Mauer gives us favorable calls. I have no stats to back that up whatsoever
Some good, some bad with that ref crew. Although I remember Mauer giving Manu some borderline calls in 2007 WCF Game 4 so let's hope history repeats itself.
The Spurs have to throw good passes and hold on to the ball. You can't rely on the refs to bail you out. In fact if you play through the contact you can force the refs to make the call.
Malloy gave that ridiculous tech to Doc Rivers for saying "Come on, Eddie". Other than that I have no gripes with the crew. Techs should not be a problem with the Spurs. The refereeing has not been terrible this series, and hopefully that trend continues.
Great call
n/m
The crew sucked tonight, but in the end, they didn't really have an impact on the outcome. The better team won tonight.
You guys can give me for this.. but the home cookin stopped the Spurs' rhythm a lot of times..
Spurs get called for ty fouls on one end, and get none on the other.
Didn't help.
Most of the 50/50 calls did go to the Thunder, but none were game changing. Unfortunately, in the NBA that is just business as usual. That was about as good as you can expect on the road in the NBA playoffs, especially in a tight series.
Okc had a lot of and ones, Spurs just few and, most impotrtant, Duncan had none...and that's unbelievable considering the kind of defense Perkins used to do anytime Tim was going to the basket.
I think this makes all the difference in the world...
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