Quote Originally Posted by edczxcvbnm
The game should have never gone into overtime then and Heat would have won in regulation. Did you forget that blocking foul that was called on Posey when it was obviously a charging foul? I rest my case that it would have never gone into over time with out those 2 foul shots that Mavs should not have gotten.

It goes both ways and the officiating in NBA games is terrible in general. Look for even more fines to be given against the Mavs...mainly the owner. He has already racked up $200,000 in fines in the post season alone.
I understand that bad calls happen over the course of the game. Ignore the overWHELMING free throw advantage that the Heat had throughout the game (36-9 after three quarters), and the shoddy reffing throughout. Ignore the fact that Wade attempted as many FTs as the entire Mavs team, and that there were many instances were he simply launched up horrific shots and the refs bailed him out, despite little or no contact. That was a consistent storyline throughout the game, and it's been that way throughout the playoffs.

But a precedent was established the refs let the players play during final possessions. The refs are not supposed to decide games. It's one thing to ref poorly throughout a game, but NBA history has shown that the players are supposed to decide things in the end. Not the refs.

This was broken, just because of drama queen Wade. Every single rule, Wade is made an exception for.

The refs are supposed to swallow their whistles at the ends of games. I'm not really pushing it, but Dirk got fouled on his final shot. They showed a replay, and he got hit on the wrist. Shoulda been an And-One. No one talks about that, though, do they?

But I understand that that won't be called, because the refs swallow their whistles at the ends of games.

Why is Wade made the exception for, particularly on a play where a foul was questionable at best, and earlier in the possession he committed an obvious stiff-arm of Terry, knocking him into the scorer's table? I didn't push that a lot, because I knew that the refs wouldn't call it, because THEY LET THE PLAYERS PLAY AT THE ENDS OF GAMES.

That's my beef. Wade is always made the exception for, because the NBA wants him to be the heir to Jordan.

This isn't even including the obviously vendetta-powered suspension of Stackhouse for no good reason. And the fact that Heat players have gotten away with a dozen elbows over the course of this series, and Pat Riley himself has stated that "there is no accidental elbow." There's something very sinister going on with the NBA. There's no consistency at all. And the Mavericks are always on the short end of that inconsistency, aren't they?

The Mavs will get fined, and they should be. Because they should be pissed. Because they got robbed.