2006 Western Conference Semifinals - Spurs vs. Mavs

It's always good to see the Spurs lose.

it's especially cool to see the spurs lose heartbreaking games.

suck on it spurs fans.

 

The call on Bowen with 8 sec. left is so redicoulous stand out bad call that it's not even funny. The refs are there to give them the call no matter what, it's their duty to take this game to overtime.

 

Another reason I want the Mavs to lose is that their fans are absolutely vicious. I don't know what it is but it seems Mavs fans go beyond smacktalk to the realm of pure venom when it comes to other teams. I mean, they HATE everyone and are so delusional about it that I can't help but curse under my breath everytime I see their ugly jersey, ugly owner, and ugly german tampon import.

 

sucks to be finley all those years with those ****ty mavs teams then he goes to the spurs and mavs whoop his ass lol

 

I am not a Spurs fan, but NBA made me root for them in this serie, even though I was cheering for the Kings in first round. It must be a joke for those strong "Dirk for MVP" advocators. What's he so special once again? A 7 footer jump shooter who gets treated as a fragile piece of China? The worst thing of NBA is that "drawing a foul" and "creating contact" bull$hit. If you are the one initiates the contact, if a foul has to be called, shouldn't it be called on you? It's just like on the road, when you see a car behind you, you just put on reverse and back into that car full speed, and claim insurance. What Terry did was just disgusting. He should be called for a foul. The refs were out there to screw the Spurs last night, and I am not sure whether it's a common sense for NBA already. As annoying as Steve Kerr is always, he was actually on Mavs' side whole night.

The "intense fight" between Manu and Dirk during a made basket, Manu was called for his 5th foul instead of a technical, but Dirk was still allowed to get a free throw out of it.

The 2 offensive calls on TD with less than 5 minutes remaining.

The Terry "initiating contact".

The TD "blocking foul", when he was 2 feet out of the circle, but the ref just pointed at the circle. Instead of 5 points up with the ball, Dirk made 2 free throws, PLUS a delay of game technical, just wow.

The last foul on Bowen with 8 seconds left.

After NBA reaches its peak in business, it's probably time that it drives fans away.

By the way, all hype and rear-kissing about Mavs great defense, is obviously the preparation for setting the stage for Dallas. A rich team with bunch of young talents, fresh legs, reliable jump shots, living on the free throw line, never made any defensive stops, great defense? My a$$!

 

Duncan's first offensive foul was obviously a makeup call.

For all the calls on Duncan, he certainly got away with it lots of times. There were at least two times that he committed fouls and was not called. And on game one, Dampier clearly blocked his shot and was called a foul on TD.

The Spurs screwed it up at the end of the regulation again. First they committed an unforced TO with less than 1 min left, and then Duncan missed a relatively easy shot inside the paint.

From any unbiased fans it's easy to see that Dallas used their athleticism (speed and penetration) to gain an upper hand in the series. Horry, Finley, Barry, and Van ******* looked slow and aging against the young Mavericks backcourt and forwards. And Terry is doing it again! His clutch shooting near the end of the game is really something to watch, not like Flopski who piled up stats and rarely do anything with the game on the line.

 

If the Mavs are able to re-sign Terry this off-season and keep Stackhouse on the team --with the great young trio they have in Harris, Howard, and Daniels -- they will be the best team in the West for years to come.

They have INCREDIBLE talent and clutch players around Nowitzki, not to mention very talented role players in Josh Howard and Daniels, and a three-headed monster with the three centers they have down low who're big enough to give them a defensive presence inside, which is all they need from their centers with the kind of firepower they possess.

To be honest, I just don't see how the Rockets could even come close to competing with what the Mavs have done so far with their team. They not only apparently have great scouting (their three young players have not only become rotation players but are now some of the KEY players on their team), but they also have an already incredibly solid and deep, deep rotation of nothing BUT quality players (no Keith Bogans, Ryan Bowen, or Chuck Hayes here).

In fact, the more I watch Dallas this season the more I am in awe of the fact that we took them to 7 games in the playoffs last season...It took T-Mac playing out of his mind and Yao dominating inside just to keep us competitive in the series, but then as is almost always the case in a 7-game series, the better team won and our 'lack of talent' compared to theirs finally reared its ugly head in Game 7 of the series.

 

The Dallas Jazz

The Utah Mavericks

I can't stand this team.

 

You got it all wrong buddy. Dirk is very, very critical for Dallas to close out games.

He fouls out the opposition's best player so they can't execute down the stretch.

 

i don't like either team and i agree that the refereeing sucked. however, i think the bad calls went both ways and that the state of officiating in the NBA is deplorable. despite all that, last night's game was a thrilla.

 

things change fast in the nba, people were saying the same things about the spurs last year and they are about to be elimanated this season. but anyways the rockets can't compete with them right now we need to add some depth and 1 solid starter.

 

i highly doubt Horry has the lateral quickness to guard Dirk. but did wonder why he wasn't in the game. must be getting old.

 

As a Mavs fan, I admit the last call on Bowen was questionable but for the most part the game was called evenly. Calls were missed on both sides.

Parker didn't hit the rim. Duncan lost the ball out of bounds but they said it was off Dallas. Duncan clearly fouled Harris in overtime but no call was made. Manu Ginobili ran in front of Howard and got a foul on Howard the same way Terry did to Manu. Both were called fouls.

If you are going to bring up the bad calls at least bring them all up. But I guess that wouldn't support your conspiracy theory, huh.

And lets not act like the refs took the game away from the Spurs. The Spurs did their part also. They threw an inbounds pass out of bounds, Tim Duncan had an 8 footer to win the game, Parker missed two huge free throws, twice the Spurs held on to the ball after a foul call (even running with it all the way to the other end of the court once) to get delay of game penalties, and then Bowen decides to save his foul at the end of the game and allow Dallas to run almost all of the time off the clock.

As for the Mavs defense, before last night, they were holding the Spurs to 93 points a game. And if you think the Mavs defense is bad, what does that say about the Spurs defense?

 

What was TP seeing in front of him? Desperate housewives and houseboys?

 

Most of the game, I was just kind of shaking my head anytime the refs called a foul for Dirk. You can't even look at the guy even when he doesn't have the ball without the ref being ready to blow a whistle. I didn't feel too bad at the time as TD usually gets that star treatment as well, but not SOOO much in this series. There's a lot of contact which should be AND1's for TD when he makes his moves that they are not calling.

as for the particular plays dirtyfilthynasty pointed out:
as for Parker not hitting the rim, you are correct, but they could have very easily called a foul on Harris for tripping him up before that. also, they had the make-up call in the moving screen right afterwards.
as for Duncan losing the ball out of bounds, you are correct, but that's usually the kind of play where the refs will call it out of bounds on the opponent instead of calling the foul on the opponent to give possession back to whoever has the ball, even if they were last to touch the ball. that happens a lot.
you say Duncan fouled Harris in OT, you are correct. I'm surprised the refs swallowed the whistle on that one, but TD drew a lot more contact than that on many of his post moves with no call WITHOUT throwing his body into Dampier.
As for the Manu in front of Howard, Terry in front of Manu foul calls, I thought they were both fouls, but you must agree Terry's was way cheaper. Manu running in front of Howard, the refs always call because he got tripped up as he could have had an easy fast break. Terry looked back more than once and throws his body into Manu away from the basket not even trying to get a shot up.

feel free to point out more "bad" calls on the Mavs. I'm sure they had many, but you can't honestly say that their "bad" calls were more questionable and game-impacting than the bad calls on the Spurs-- that is without being a homer

also, I wouldn't say there's some kind of conspiracy theory... more like a mere coincidence everytime Mark Cuban opens his mouth and gets fined?

 

Y'all should quit whining about the refs and move to San Antonio. I'll take all of your Rockets gear.



SPURS LOSE!!! SPURS LOSE!!! SPURS LOSE!!!


Seriously, you guys are whining like you're true Spurs fans or something.

 

i'm not a spurs fan

i'm a mavs hatah

 

Finley was still out of bounds.

 

Good game last night, but man Duncan should have won it in regulation...If Dallas wins the series, I have to deal with all these Mavs fans...

Go Spurs...