Tim Duncan entered the game illegally for the final possession of regulation after the referees reviewed Ray Allen's game-tying three-pointer in Game 6. Reviews aren't technically a dead ball situation, meaning substitutions cannot be made without a timeout. The San Antonio Spurs were out of timeouts, meaning they couldn't make a substitution or advance the ball. Tony Parker drove to the left baseline and missed a jumper at the buzzer. Via Kelly Dwyer/Yahoo! Sports
Worse yet, he pushes off and cleared space first with his huge freakin' elbow, and still had the audacity to whine about it. Should have be an offensive foul. Never mind the hammer on Green at the end that gets ignored. Officiating like the end of last night's game, combined with the players flopping around whining, are the biggest problems in basketball.
I wouldn't say the officiating was bad. But the flopping of the Heat players and *****ing of the Heat fans, when the momentum was clearly in Spurs favor, was pathetic. My post in the other thread: Lebron was passive, scared to shoot the ball, threw his hands up when he missed layups hoping refs would bail him out. Crying for foul when stripped by Danny Green when it was a great defensive play. Tony Parker drained huge 3 pointer in Lebron's face, right after Lebron's turnover. Lebron made two huge turnovers during this time. Lebron was getting outplayed on both sides of the court last few minutes of regulation. Lebron looked shook honestly. Complaining about every call, scared to take the shot, making turnover after turnover. Even Wade got into the action resorted to crying about not getting foul calls because the whole Heat team just couldn't buy a bucket during a critical stretch of the 4th quarter. They wanted the refs to bail them out. Not sure if you guys remember the moment where the Heat CROWD crying about the refs chanting "referees suck". It was hilarious. The Heat was atrocious and the Spurs were all business, no smiles or celebrations. Even after Lebron made that 3 to bring the Heat within 2, the body language of the Heat in the huddle looked like the defeated team. Lebron should thank Ray Allen for saving his legacy, which would've been ripped to shreds if not for that amazing (and lucky) sequence to tie the game. Anyways, with that said, I don't see the Spurs winning game 7. They were SO CLOSE. I feel for them. Lebron and Heat didn't WIN that game, the Spurs LOST that game.
the spurs are going to be exhausted i wouldn't be surprised at all by blow out by the heat. there is a reason pop gives his guys so much rest when he can.
See this is exactly the problem with the referees, cause 99% of the time Lebron gets those calls!! You can't actually blame Lebron, it's the system that partially makes him react this way. It was the same with Harden during this year's playoffs, he didn't get calls he usually gets. In the playoffs, they calls those looking for fouls type plays less on certain players but you wouldn't expect that would also include Lebron. That's why he was shocked. I was also in shock even though they were the right calls or non-calls rather. This game, besides the usual Joey Crawford crazy calls - mainly against the Heat - was actually the way I like games to be officiated. There were not that many FTs and referees didn't favour the Spurs, it was just that they were not calling many fouls and Heat were just not aggressive enough earlier in the game. You can argue who is responsible for that - the way it is officiated, lacking a killer instinct or whatever, truth is that stars look to be bailed out because they are exactly that - the stars. Olajuwon did the same thing, though maybe less than Lebron.
I wouldn't want an elimination game in the Finals be determined by the referees anyways. And replays showed the referees made the right calls. I don't see the problem?
even if reffing/floping is ****, you still have to make shots to when games. bottom line. this is basketball, nothing new here with the complaining of calls/no calls. Its homecourt, this is why you try and get home court.
I was glad there were no calls on several borderline fouls at the end (on both sides). No one wants to see an elimination game determined by free throws after questionable foul calls. For example, the 2006 Heat championship will always be a bit tainted by excessive foul calls.
Game 6 was Game 7 for the Spurs, they gave everything they had & more to nonetheless, come up short. I expect Miami to come out dominant & lead convincingly all the way up to the end of the third where San Antonio will cut the lead to 3. After that Miami will pull away again & end up wining 97-86.
Parker missed, so it had no effect whatsoever. A mistake, but one with no consequences. In fact Pop didn't want the refs to review the Allen 3 but wanted to inbound the ball and go for it without Miami huddling up to set up their D, since both reams were out of timeouts.
Spurs are spent. I agree, 7 will be a blowout. Manu & Splitter will be Manu & Splitter again(aka terrible). Green will be non-existent again. Duncan won't go off for 30 & 17 again. Spurs blew it, they're done. __________________ <blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Manu on his mental state: "Still down. After a blow like that, it's not easy to get back up."</p>— Mike Finger (@mikefinger) <a href="https://twitter.com/mikefinger/statuses/347409295228428288">June 19, 2013</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
Steve Javie was on 1st take, said both non calls in the final seconds were correct. A well called game by the refs.
Cliff notes on what screaming A. & skip had to say? Anyone know if those videos are posted anywhere, or just podcasts?
Stephen A and Skip thought both of them were fouls. They thought the one on Manu should have been called and they agreed that you can't make that foul call on the Bosh block even though they thought it could be a foul on anything other than the last play of the game.
Despite what the players (Manu) say, I'm sure the Spurs will come out with a strong mental aiming for the veins. It's the last game of the season and both teams will be ready. This will be a close game. A low-scoring close game. The Heat may have a slight edge with the home crowd probably more energized and looking to make up for the game 6 debacle. They'll be screaming till the last buzzer. Still can't discount the Spurs though... you never know what you're gonna get with this group. This may very well end up being decided by coaching decisions on player rotation again.
Sad to see Ginobli...sound like a defeated man...but if he wants solid advice...go talk to guys in the NBA...that cry everyday that they werent able to win a title...ie Barkley, Miller, Stockton, Malone...These guys had their careers end without a chance to win it...That should be plenty of motivation to realize you still have one last crack at the title...yes while this has to be the hardest thing about being so close to a title and not finishing it...you can do something about it...tom night...instead of waiting an entire year and hope that lighting can strike in a bottle twice and the Spurs get back to the finals again next year... Pop's msg should be simple...We played like it was game 7 last night...but the truth is that you still have one more chance...no team has two "game 7" chances...get your revenge now as opposed to waiting till next season to do something about it...
Looks like my original prediction was right -- Heat in 7. No team can come back after blowing a golden opportunity like the Spurs did in game 6. They are done. Lebron will get his ring No.2. Just a few more to go.
