Hell of a series. I did not like the officiating in games 4 and 5 one bit, but Dallas performed when they needed to. Barea and Terry were huge for the Mavs.
All Dallas has to do is win one of 2 in Miami......not bad odds. If they get a big night from the bench in either of the last two games they win the series IMO.
epic series... you really can't say that one team has been head and shoulders above the other. Every game has been close. The first game was close until the end. I expect the Heat to somehow pull this out, but I'm pulling for the Mavs because I respect the hell out of them for ***** slapping my Lakers.
I admit this is good, I laughed when I heard them... http://dfw.cbslocal.com/2011/06/10/lebron-d-wade-mock-dirks-sickness-before-game-5/
http://nbaplaybook.com/2011/06/10/why-the-charge-on-lebron-james-was-the-right-call/ If any of you out there that think it was a bad call.
Dallas could very well win. But they’d need to bring the crooked officiating with them to do so. I think the NBA wants a seven game series out of this. Game 6 is likely a Heat win. Game 7 is anyone’s guess, but I have faith in my team. They made it this far.
You just picked up a loose ball foul. By the way, I expect continued crooked officiating in game 6, but in Miami’s favor. David Stern will have his 7 game series.
Come on, preemptive excuse making about the officials from Heat fans? So if they win, they overcame the refs and the NBA, not that they had the more talented team and should have won fairly easily, if they lose it wasn't their fault the NBA wanted the Mavs to win, come on now, thats weak. This has been a great series either way, have to give the Mavs a ton of credit here. Ironic to hear Heat fans crying about officiating during a finals series though, I mean seriously now.
seriously. they should be counting their lucky stars butler and heywood are hurt or this might have been a sweeep. i'm sure heat fans arent complaining about lebrons double dribbles or wade's travel violations that were conveniently overlooked
I just think its funny you and some other Heat fans can't admit that the Mavericks have been playing better. Its not the Mavs, its the refs. Come on man. I don't even hate the Heat, but the egos the fans possess is ridiculous.
Now now... don't go all doom and gloom on me... although I don't think the Mavs are as hot as they were coming into the series. A credit to the Heat defense and final series pressure. The Heat can still win this series quite easily...or not...
There are so many things wrong with this. 1. I’ve been giving credit to the Mavs up and down this thread. Every time. Win or lose. First thing I do after a game is come here and show respect to the Mavs and praise this series, because on the whole it’s pretty damn good basketball. I make it a point to do so. 2. The referees ARE up to their old tricks. It’s tough to dispute. 3. The problem with the officiating is not whether the calls go Dallas’ way or Miami’s way, it’s that the frequency of calls and their nature—boxing Tyson Chandler out is apparently a loose ball foul—prevents the Heat from playing their style of defense, while it doesn’t affect the Mavs much at all. We saw this in game 5: that was the Heat’s worst defensive effort since their blowout loss to San Antonio in the regular season. Why’d they suddenly regress? It wasn’t LeBron’s fault. 4. You’re not exactly unbiased on this front either, my man. Posting “LeChoke” stuff on Facebook doesn’t exactly inspire me as to your even-handedness in the analysis of this series. 5. Please tell me what the hell is going on here: Anyway, Steve Javie is the lead ref tonight, so let’s see if anything changes. It’ll be interesting if Miami gets all sorts of bizarre and rigged calls, and people here start complaining about it.
You do that and then you say they should bring the refs with them if they plan on winning. Really? Both teams are getting calls. That deserved to be posted. Mocking Dirk Nowitzski was childish. I don't know, nor do I care to know.
To be fair, they weren't mocking Dirk, they were mocking the media for making Dirks illness into some heroic story. I'm not going to get into the officiating, because the fact is the Heat have had so much more to deal with than any team in sports history. The officiating at this point retune of the only things they can control.
So were picking on the Heat for making jokes now? Did anyone get on Shaq's case for calling the Kings the Queens?
It was a dumb comment to make by Wade and James. If it was any other players/team, I would have said the same. I don't really care what people thought about Shaq's comment. If I had a say in it, I would say that it was childish as well.
danny martinez? lol. what a joke. if you really care about the refs at least use an actual refs observations. tim donaghy, aka mr fix it lol. FIRST QUARTER 11:22 [MIA 2-0] Quick three-second call on Tyson Chandler. Ball is deflected and loose. Three-second violations, like handchecks, are often made early in a game to set a tone and open up the lane so players can get to the basket. 10:50 [MIA 4-0] Cheap foul on Dwyane Wade. Another call to set the tone for the game and the series. If this type of play were whistled all night, there would be 100 fouls called in the game. 10:23 [MIA 4-2] Jason Kidd is in the lane and never clears. A defender in the paint for more than three seconds must be within arm's length of an opponent unless his man has the ball. Kidd is in the paint for eight seconds. 7:49 [MIA 6-4] Bosh sets an illegal screen on Stevenson. Bosh must give a defender time and space to stop and/or change direction. Missed call. 7:35 [MIA 6-4] Bosh pushes off on this rebound, but Dallas keeps the balls as it goes out of bounds. Had Miami gained control, this foul would've been called. 5:30 [MIA 10-5] Cheap foul on Nowitzki as James runs into him. Similar play occurs in the second quarter with Barea at 6:54 and no call is made. 4:51 [MIA 11-8] James clear lifts his left foot, his pivot foot, allowing him to get off a pass. Travel missed. 3:47 [MIA 13-11] James lowers his shoulder into Chandler on a drive to the basket. This is a missed offensive foul — too much contact to ignore. :37.3 [MIA 16-15] Clear foul by James on Terry's drive to the basket. Jeff Van Gundy makes a boneheaded comment about how this should be an offensive foul. :19.1 [DAL 17-16] James pushes off on Barea. He extends his right arm to clear space and get his shot off. James makes enough contact and gets enough of an advantage that this should be called. It's ignored because it would be his third foul. http://deadspin.com/5807464/tim-donaghy-on-game-1-how-the-refs-set-the-tone-of-a-series/gallery/1
Yeah and it's 2 to 1 in favor of Dallas on those calls. Especially loose ball fouls. The Mavs are a damned good team. They've played much better in the 4th quarter of these games but the officiating has sucked in 3 of the 5 games.
Pretty much sums it up. So apparently, Deshawn Stevenson let the cat out of the bag: other teams’ coaches and players are helping the Mavs. This is getting ridiculous now.
You can't imagine coaches around the league think-tanking at a round table, giving their input on how to appropriately dissect the Heat defense?
Just returning the favor. One of the reasons the Heat are hated is because they supposedly colluded to bring the Big 3 together. A common complaint is that what Pat Riley did is unfair, anticompetitive, etc. But apparently the rest of the league sees no problem engaging in exactly that type of behavior. A little hypocritical, don't you think? Sure, Heat hate is mainly irrational and emotional, but it's still worth pointing out the breach of logic.
Right... I was referring to what you linked. I didn't actually read the link, just what you wrote in the post. I don't see an issue with teams talking to each other.
