[EricaLubarsky]

Refs are fickle. They go with the team with momentum and swagger. When you are winning, then sense the confidence and give you more calls. Right now we're hanging our shoulders and it makes our situation twice as bad. Even games we'd struggle to win, we're losing because the refs see the fear in our eyes and reward the team with conviction. I don't sense an anti-Mavs bias at all-- just fickle officiating that rewards the cocky team and penalizes the reeling one.

Just two years ago with vets and confidene, I saw us on the beneficiary side of a TON of calls that could have gone either way. Kidd and Chandler mauled players for blocks and steals with no foul called. It's about our mentality and the physical manifestation out there on the court-- unfortunately we'll lose a lot of close games we'd win if the officiating was totally even, but if we end up putting it together, we'd be the first team to benefit.