Here's the 'horrible" officiating from the game

it's not the calls
it's the no calls and the timing of the calls.
not to mention who the calls are against

I'm not saying the game was rigged but the numbers u gave
say NOTHING about the fairness of the gamne.

Rocket River
If i dish out 20 fouls on Spurs by half. . .and only 4 on lakes
if i even them out at the end. . it is still a significant impact to
the game

 

I didn't watch the game and doubt the officiating was very very bad, but if one team fouled a lot mroe than the other (entirely possible) than that "data" would represent horrible officiatiating. When did it become the officials job to make sure the calls were balanced, and not just call them as they are for both teams?

 

Here's a scenario for you.

The Rockets get the #6 seed next year and face the Lakers in the first round. Shaq fouls a Rocket like he did Malik Rose and Steve Francis gets hammered like Parker for another no call. It would be a good idea for Clutch to have his new server in place before hand.

 

Parker got fricking wiped out, to no call. How can you not call that?

 

From that pic it looks like shaq got his hand on the ball, but look how Rose's neck is bent back it almost looks like a back hand clothesline

 

I appreciate the refs not calling incidental body contact, if the block itself was clean. But they let Shaq get away with way too much. In fairness, they seem to favor Duncan as well, but not to the same extent.

 

Should have been a call.

 

A foul was called (albeit slowly) when Parker got wiped out. Shaq has 90% ball in the above picture and Malik's head is bent back by the pressure on ball by Shaq's hands (which is fine). Could have been a foul but either way it is a close call in that situation and often late in playoffs they let that ride.

It was a fair officiated game. Kobe and Horry got many ticky tacky fouls called early--it lead to a very rare T on Horry, and Shaq got some O foul calls on him as well. The Spurs did not take full advantage of a number of early fouls that went their way. Also, take away the intentional fouls on Shaq late and the total fouls really favor the Spurs. Late in the game they didn't call many close fouls either way as the refs should in that situation. Only when Shaq was absolutely hammered (enough so even he couldn't get it on the rim or clearly intentional) did they call fouls.

 

As has already been pointed out, these numbers mean nothing. Show us a stat that shows fouls that weren't called, or fouls that shouldn't have been called, then you may have something.

 

The Spurs should have realized that if the refs were swallowing their whistles, maybe the Spurs should play more physical?