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XERXES · 04-25-2004, 02:33 PM

I'm curious how yesterday's officiating looked to those of you who watched the game on TV. From my seats, it looked completely godawful. Through the first three quarters it seemed the refs were consistently blowing one call after another. Maybe I didn't have a good 'angle.' What did it look like on TV?

I'm sure I was being a Mavs homer...but, I don't remember seeing a game called that poorly in quite a while.

FilthyFinMavs · 04-25-2004, 02:36 PM

I honestly think the only people who should be mad are Kings fans. I don't think the officiating won us the game however I think the refs made some calls that were more in favor of the Mavs then they were for the Kings.

EricaLubarsky · 04-25-2004, 02:38 PM

it looked better than normal and the bad calls went both ways. I watched the game and then watched the tape and there are some blown calls. Walker walks subtly. Peja takes four steps without a call. Nash gets called for ticky-tack fouls in the first half and gets away with more in the second. Najera gets called on two quick BS fouls and then gets away with two straight fouls to get the steal. It was interesting officiation that mostly went our way.

mavsman55 · 04-25-2004, 02:47 PM

No xerxes, you're not being a homer. There were some horribly bad calls made yesterday. 2 of Nash's 4 fouls involved no human-to-human contact whatsoever. Najera got stuck with 2 bullcrap calls within a 6-second span. They walked, they fouled to get steals, and they hacked, but didn't get called for it. But we did get away with our fair share of fouls though...

EricaLubarsky · 04-25-2004, 02:53 PM

The larger concern for me is how home teams nearly always get the calls they need. We overwhelmingly got the calls (especially on out-of-bounds calls). We have seen that unless the home team plays content (detriot) or the home team just plain sucks (NY), winning on the road is nearly impossible.

mavsman55 · 04-25-2004, 02:54 PM

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Originally posted by: EricaLubarsky
The larger concern for me is how home teams nearly always get the calls they need. We overwhelmingly got the calls (especially on out-of-bounds calls). We have seen that unless the home team plays content (detriot) or the home team just plain sucks (NY), winning on the road is nearly impossible.

Refs don't like getting booed either.

Richard · 04-25-2004, 02:55 PM

I'm with you. It was pretty bad. Only saving grace is it was fairly evenly bad.

BUT, if Nash being out unfairly because of the refs had had the usual effect, their bad calls would have decided the game. Maybe next game they'll even it out and sit Webber for most of the game with BS calls. Why do I think that won't happen?

grndmstr_c · 04-25-2004, 02:58 PM

I thought the job the refs did was unusually ticky-tack and often just inexplicably bad. Luckily it didn't figure in the outcome.

XERXES · 04-25-2004, 11:43 PM

I'm glad to see that a few of you agreed with me. I took my younger brother to the game and I kept looking at him and telling him "we're going to win by 20 - but if there were better officiating - we'd win by 40..."

Maybe I'm getting greedy.

EricaLubarsky · 04-25-2004, 11:49 PM

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Originally posted by: XERXES
I'm glad to see that a few of you agreed with me. I took my younger brother to the game and I kept looking at him and telling him "we're going to win by 20 - but if there were better officiating - we'd win by 40..."

Maybe I'm getting greedy.

definitely greedy. [img]i/expressions/brokenheart.gif[/img]

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I just don't complain when the fouls ultimately dont make a difference because compared to most games this game was well officiated.

PubaNWO · 04-26-2004, 06:56 AM

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Originally posted by: EricaLubarsky
it looked better than normal and the bad calls went both ways. I watched the game and then watched the tape and there are some blown calls. Walker walks subtly. Peja takes four steps without a call. Nash gets called for ticky-tack fouls in the first half and gets away with more in the second. Najera gets called on two quick BS fouls and then gets away with two straight fouls to get the steal. It was interesting officiation that mostly went our way.

Erica this is the NBA, they never call traveling!!!

I mean Lebron James can jump and fake a dunk then take a hop and 3 steps on his way to a windmill dunk and they don't call traveling!!!

And you know who started that?? Nique....the Human Highlight Film!!! Poor guy isn't even one of the 50 greatest players.....something is wrong!

MavsFanatik33 · 04-26-2004, 08:36 AM

It was horrible from anywhere you were sitting, Nash's 4 quick fouls were horrible...3 of them he didnt even touch the opposing player.

Chiwas · 04-26-2004, 09:07 AM

First of all, and very notorious, nobody could touch Bibby.

Second, maybe coincidently but when Eddie got on the court, during the TO (I don't remember if it was in the change of the first to the second quarter), the refs had a little meeting and they agreed that the tempo was going to change and so their calls (the TV showed it with the "open mic" -or so- feature). It was odd. Then they started to whistle everything, including if a fan slurped his beer.