Mavs - Nuggets (2nd Round)

[CATCH17]

JET! woooooooo

 

[CATCH17]

OH noooo.


I wish Dirk would've gone to the basket right there.


Lets just hope Dallas doesn't give up an easy lay up.

 

[CATCH17]

Good job refs


gotta love the nba

 

[TheCount]

How the Mavs managed to lose that one, I have no idea. If the guy wanted to foul Carmelo, probably better to wrap him up instead of pulling your hands away and holding them up like you didn't want the call.

 

[Mavs Man]

Well, crap. Wright should have wrapped him up instead of just bumping him.

 

[CATCH17]

Man I love the Mavs but the NBA officiating over the years has been so awful and so much of a joke.

Im not shocked at all.

 

[Mavs Man]

I'm not sure if the Mavs will get a better chance to take a game than they did today.

 

[CATCH17]

How the Mavs managed to lose that one, I have no idea. If the guy wanted to foul Carmelo, probably better to wrap him up instead of pulling your hands away and holding them up like you didn't want the call.

Dude he fouled him.

That was the definition of a foul.

No question.


This is just typical nba refs. Worst officiating in all pro sports.

 

[CATCH17]

I'm not sure if the Mavs will get a better chance to take a game than they did today.

Oh its over. This series is done.

 

[MC KAos]

i think its pretty evident i hate the mavs. that being said, that was the worst no call in a situation where they were clearly trying to foul in the history of the nba(my bill waltonism of the day) he clearly fouled him, in any situation, ya maybe he should have wrapped him up, but come one, it was clear he was trying to foul him and it was clear he commited the foul. i bet they would have blown the whistle had he missed the shot!

that being said, gotta give melo credit for making the shot

 

[MC KAos]

Oh its over. This series is done.

ya it is, no way they win four in a row, with two being in denver. maybe they will win "por el honor" in game 4

 

[Avaj]

Mavs got rob on that one

 

[Avaj]

Well, crap. Wright should have wrapped him up instead of just bumping him.

Exactly what I thought

 

[TheCount]

Dude he fouled him.

That was the definition of a foul.

No question.


This is just typical nba refs. Worst officiating in all pro sports.

The definition of a foul is when the ref blows the whistle, with the game on the line, you don't rely on the definition, you play for the whistle. Hacking and then lifting your arms away like you don't want the call certainly doesn't help anything.

It was obviously a foul but with no whistle, it doesn't matter. The Mavs are the ones that end up crying, it doesn't matter to the refs.

Every game there are fouls that don't get called and non-fouls that do, so why you would leave it up to the interpretation of the ref is beyond me.

 

[Rampage]

If the Mavs lose its because you bumped this thread.

good job

 

[StylisticS]

Well, crap. Wright should have wrapped him up instead of just bumping him.

He also did a terrible job of selling it. He raised his hands to act like he did not touch him if anyone noticed.

 

[CATCH17]

NBA admits refs’ error that cost Mavericks

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DALLAS (AP)—The NBA admitted officials were wrong when they didn’t call an intentional foul the Dallas Mavericks were trying to commit before Denver’s Carmelo Anthony(notes) made a game-winning 3-pointer Saturday.

Dallas had a two-point lead and a foul to give when Denver inbounded the ball with less than 8 seconds left. Antoine Wright(notes) was clearly trying to foul Anthony, and bumped him twice.

But the whistle never blew and Anthony swished a 3-pointer from in front of the Dallas bench with a second left that gave the Nuggets a 106-105 victory and a 3-0 series lead.

“At the end of the Dallas-Denver game this evening, the officials missed an intentional foul committed by Antoine Wright on Carmelo Anthony, just prior to Anthony’s three-point basket,” Joel Litvin, NBA president of league and basketball operations, said in a statement issued by the league about two hours after the game.

“It’s a shame the game had to come down to this, but that’s the way it goes in the NBA sometimes,” Mavericks owner Mark Cuban said in an e-mail to The Associated Press after the league’s statement.

Cuban was visibly upset on the court after the game, but had declined comment while standing just outside the Mavericks’ locker room.

In the aftermath of the scandal involving former referee Tim Donaghy, the NBA has begun publicly acknowledging certain officiating mistakes.

Donaghy is serving a prison sentence for betting on games he officiated and taking cash payments from gambling associates for information to help them with bets.

A day after Game 4 of the Western Conference finals last year, the NBA said a foul should have been called against Derek Fisher(notes) of the Los Angeles Lakers on the final possession. That could have given San Antonio a chance to win the game and get even in the series.

Fisher jumped and came down on Brent Barry(notes) in the final seconds of a two-point game. No foul was called and Barry missed badly on a 3-pointer as time expired.

Mark Wunderlich, one of the three officials for that game last year, was part of the crew for the Denver-Dallas game Saturday night and was the one closest to Wright and Anthony.

“I’m almost as disappointed for Mark as I am for us. … It’s a call he makes 100 percent of the time,” Mavericks coach Rick Carlisle said after Saturday’s game.

Added Wright: “I was positive a whistle was coming, just like everybody else was positive the whistle was coming. I made a play on the ball like I was told in the huddle, and the call wasn’t made. … I’m upset like everyone else in this locker room, and I feel like we have a right to be upset.”
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I like Carlisle and what he said.


The guy has done a heck of a job managing situations this post season.

 

[TheCount]

I wonder if they would have admitted their mistake if Carmelo had missed the shot, I guess the Nuggets might be the ones complaining.

 

[CATCH17]

I wonder if they would have admitted their mistake if Carmelo had missed the shot, I guess the Nuggets might be the ones complaining.

As they should've been considering it WAS a foul.

 

[TheCount]

As they should've been considering it WAS a foul.

Well then I guess it's a good thing Carmelo played till the whistle and hit the shot.