Tim Donaghy: Mavs have no chance of beating Miami and the refs

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Yeah. The refs made Wade and Lebron go into God mode when down by 12 with under 3 minutes to go. They made those amazing shots go in. All refs.

 

Let Cuban scream and yell all he wants. I still hate him for 04-05. He is a sore loser and I can't wait to see his little sad face when Miami woops their ass.

 

What?! Miami gets the benefit of the call over 90% of the time?! WHAT?! This is news to me...

 

As much as I wanted those videos to be clear evidence of the refs favoring the Heat, that was pretty weak. No doubt, both calls were wrong and really terrible calls, but refs miss calls like that all the time. If there was actually some kind of huge bias for the Heat, then a guy like Donaghy, who knows the ins and outs of refereeing and has a huge motive to find and point out that bias, would be able to handpick a whole bunch more than one call from each game to prove it. Grabbing two bad calls from an entire series and saying it's proof that the refs are favoring one team is weak evidence.

 

Does nobody else see the irony in Donaghy talking about fixing games and cheating refs? WTF!!??

 

LOL it is funny that you were the first one to bring it up, whether its obvious or not

 

Especially considering how the refs were giving Game 5 to Chicago. One play that was extremely memorable is the out-of-bounds on Watson in the 2nd period that was reversed. Watson got trapped on the sideline and lost the ball out of bounds. It was called out on Watson.

Referees conversed during the TV timeout and reversed the call due to replay. The replay clearly showed the ball touched Watson's hands last. Reggie Miller and Steve Kerr even agreed, and they were clear Bulls homers during the commentary. Yet, refs ruled it out on Chalmers and gave possession back to the Bulls.

First, you can't review a play to determine possession unless it's under 2 minutes in the 4th period. This was about 6 minutes to go in the 2nd period. The refs violated league rules here. Second, the ball clearly came off of Watson's hands. Game 5 was handed to the Bulls yet they still gave it away.

The NBA tried to extend the ECF so they could milk it for ratings. They will no doubt do the same in the NBA finals. They'll do everything they can to make it at least 6 games, all in the quest for ratings.

 

he probably sees the error of his ways and is now voicing what he's known for years

 

nothing new here. Dallas has to win by a large margin in order to make up for all the non-calls and bogus calls.

Houston did it twice (although we got some love from the refs during the Orlando series i think in game 4. Hakeem took like 5 steps in open court on a fast break and Clyde went up for a lay-up, poked Penny in the eye and got the and-1. But the game/series was over by that time.

Dirk needs to play out of his mind and the bench needs to dominate. If those things align then Dallas can beat Miami and the refs.

 

Remember this quote by Upton Sinclair:

"It is difficult for a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it"

Basically Tim D played by the rules of the NBA and they left him out to dry. What you have here is a man scorned; blowing the whistle on those who he used to work for and protect because his livelihood depended on it. At this point in his life, his livelihood does not depend on him working for the association reffing and being jaded and left out to dry, he's out to show the league for the absolute farce that it is.

 

anyone else find it ironic that this danny b he works for is a sports betting adviser--the same problem that got tim d in jail in the first place?

 

Meh, reffs miss calls all the time, on both teams. There were many times where Rose travelled but didn't get it called on him, usually it evens out.

 

You just don't know anything. Euroleague is 50 times better at officiating. It sure doesn't favor stars and there are stars in Euroleague.

Missed calls is one thing, constant traveling and Wade fouls is totally another

 

It is not fixed. It is just bad officiating that favor guard stars!

 

LeBron travels 15-20 times in every game he plays. Every NBA game, every FIBA game, every Olympics game. And yet, he continues to get away with it.

 

Its funny how w.e. he said Is exactly what I said when Miami was playing against Chicago.

 

yet k-mart gets called for traveling every game

 

All of this officiating starting favoring the star players once the league change the rules for the benefit of MJ. The Pistons way of playing D on MJ was what the old NBA was, where it was called almost down the line but once the rules were change where no hand checking was allowed it all changed to benefit of the guards.

 

And NBA had its highest ratings ever. If we have this whole conspiracy theory why did the magic beat the heat or the lakers beat the mavs. Every player in the nba travels. Most people playing pickup travel. You can either let it go or start fights all the time.