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Danny Crawford has beef with Cuban/Mavericks but he is still solid overall..just keep it close in 4th and let OKC self-destruct..if we make our shots, nothing will matter anyway..
Danny Crawford (crew chief) - was voted #1 Best ref by the NBA players.
http://www.latimes.com/sports/nba/la...131-story.html
"Danny is good because he'll talk to you," another player said. "He doesn't take it personal if you question him, as long as you're not tripping or your tone is not all messed up. If you're asking a question, even if you're questioning his call, he doesn't take it like it's an affront to his manhood. He might tell you some stuff like, 'You're wrong.' But he'll treat you like a man, like a human being."
Crawford used to just let teams play but now he favors the losing team to keep it close, and favors stars. Regardless, he's still one of the league's best refs.
some stats:
1) Spurs lost twice at home in the 2014 Playoffs (Gm2 against Mavs and Gm2 of Finals). Crawford had both games
2) That same year, in the playoff games Crawford was chief, the home team won 30% of the time.
3) Last year he ref'd Gm6 vs LAC. He swallowed the whistle and lets the teams play (we lost). We need to play aggresive.
Bill Spooner - I don't know much about him. Over the course of his career, the home team gets 1 fewer foul called on them and wins 57% of the time. He has previously tried to sue a reporter for calling him out on bad calls.
Zach Zarba - Not a particularly BAD ref, but Pop can't stand him. They have a history. Zarba will guess on close plays (think Wade's flop in the '14 finals). We'll have to rely on Crawford to overturn any bad calls from Zarba. He also ref'd game 6 last year with Crawford.
Does anyone know of any other tendencies that Spooner or Zarba have?
Danny Crawford has beef with Cuban/Mavericks but he is still solid overall..just keep it close in 4th and let OKC self-destruct..if we make our shots, nothing will matter anyway..
Voted # 1 Ref by players is not that good a thing; benefactors of his cheating are naturally going to vote for him at the highest clip in a multi option ballot. If you had Danny Crawford vs. individual refs and did a league wide vote, you'd find he has negative numbers. I have no doubt that the NBA paid the LA Times to do that propaganda for them.
Read the article and the quotes. It's actually good. A ref can't cheat for all of the players. The list only affirms what we already knew, that Danny Crawford is as good a ref that there is and is respected.
That is not confirmed; certainly not by that fuzzy math. But as well, some good opinions of him don't confirm it either. I'm not trying to totally trash DC; but I think he is a company man. He's not as bad as Scott Foster or Monty McCutchen, etc. IMO
Dan Crawford? You've got to be ing kidding me.
We're ed. NBA wants a 7 game series
If history holds.
Yup.
Crawford favors the road team so the ThundeRef factor should be minimized.
God, the fact that there are threads for which refs are gonna be in the game just shows how sorry as this league is.
Wrong Crawford
Other than boxing/MMA, can't think of any other sport where this is even discussed.
Crawford was a great ref to get in the old days when the Spurs were really physical. Then he was a terrible draw in 2012-2015 when the Spurs were a finesse team, just like he was a terrible draw for Dallas all those years. Now that they're more a physical defensive team again I think he's a good draw for the Spurs.
Would the NBA really want a 7 game series with two small market teams, including the "boring" Spurs?
Just. Make. Your. ING. FREE THROWS.
Some more likely that steph curry will be back at full strength for whichever team is the winner and that makes it far more likely that the golden state will be in the finals against Cavaliers
Last edited by Gagnrath; 05-08-2016 at 07:02 PM.
Does the NBA want to extend the series so the winner is exhausted or injured when facing the Worrier$? Yes
Well so much for that, Crawford is ing the Spurs over with no vaseline tonight
Way things are going Spurs prolly draw Mauer again for Game 5. NBA not ing around.
you Danny Crawford
Refs about to gift OKC the next three games. Just unreal.
These refs are in homer refs...
Thunder getting alot of help from refs....wow
Told you gots.
but Dan Crawford got voted as the best ref
Were the voters Thunder players?!?!
That was shockingly bad. Not gonna lie. I can't believe it
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