Did you watch the same game as I did?

and as for sarcastic clapping - don't condone the nba calling it - and i thought the nba was fine with clapping given what happened with the crawford/duncan thing - but i guess the precedent had been set.

either way, the game was over by then.  think its kind of dumb for nelson to fine jackson.  game was over by then.  it doesn't matter.

To hell with the refs, they screw crap up all the time, and the Mavs have gotten the short end of the ref stick more than a few times as well.

If the refs do show the slightest favoritism towards Dallas, well... that's because they've earned it with their unreal reg season record and playoff performances of the past.

GOOD GAME DALLAS... YOU EARNED IT.

But, as I said in an extremely scathing diary, you will be crowned the new "KINGS" a la Sac town, unless you can pull it off two more times.

Game 6 in Oaktown kiddies, the Dubs and their "classless, juevenile" fans will be going bananas. You think winning in Miami during the finals was tough... you ain't seen the half of it.

May the best team win... which currently is the Warriors

I tivo'd the J Rich shot (with 23 sec left). Dirk hit him in the arm, and the foul definitely was what made him miss the shot. That said, it'd probably be to the Warriors disadvantage if they started calling those more tightly since we challenge jumpers so aggressively, so I'm not really going to complain too much about it. It's just part of the luck of the game.
Josh Howard then rebounded, and Baron then looked like he was trying to intentonally foul, but never touched him. But the ref that made the call was at an angle where it would be impossible to see the contact, and probably assumed he was trying to intentionally foul, so he made a call that would be the right call 95% of the time. Again, just unlucky.
As a Warriors fan, I'm proud of the comeback, and knowing that we easily could've won this game leaves me feeling good going into game 6.

My biggest fear is that the strategy of doubling Baron doesn't turn out to be a long-term solution. It sure looked good in this game.

BD and JET:  When the ball goes out of bounds, we grab it as quickly as possible and get goig the other way.  BD went down aggressively to get the ball because the team wanted to get out and run before the Mavs were set.  JET was frustrated by what he thought was action against him.  It wasn't as bad as it looked initially, but you can't push a guy down in this game especially after the whistle.

Phantom foul:  I agree with the quote, BD went up to intentionally foul in the situation, realized he couldn't, held up but the ref didn't.  It doesn't matter if everybody expected it to happen, you can't call a foul that doesn't happen.  And JRich was fouled big time on the previous three.  These things didn't cost us the game, just irritated us because all of the blatantly really bad calls got saved for the end.

Stephen Jackson's clap:  Charles took Stephen's side after the game and they replayed the action a couple of times.  Stephen didn't so much as look at the refs, let alone say anything.  He looked at his teammates as he passed them and then up into the stands.  His mouth didn't move.  Nellie's fine is a Nellie mind game to get Stephen Jackson to be as careful as possible tomorrow night.

According to this article, refs have a slight racial bias in favor of white players.  Based on the article, the Mavs will have an edge because their best player is white.

Back OT, how do you explain that Terry did not get assessed a flagrant foul when he threw Davis down, and then Jackson gets tossed for clapping?  I call B.S. on that.

Just because someone has a reputation for starting stuff, doesn't mean they did, or did not, do anything in a particular case.  If you were in a court of law, that sort of evidence would not be allowed.  In this case, we shouldn't even be talking about S-Jax; we should be talking about the ref getting suspended like the ref who tossed Duncan for laughing.  

Also, the general rule regarding character evidence, for those who aren't lawyers is this:

the "prosecutor" can't introduce evidence of bad character to prove a defendant did something unless the "defense attorney" tries to introduce evidence of good character first.  

S-Jax didn't do anything to warrant getting tossed last night & saying he deserved it because of some other things he's done is ridiculous.  

I've got a question:  why don't Mavs' fans rag on the other lawyers at AAC to get off their bloody Blackberrys & yell for their team?  (sounds like brodyv did his part...)

At least there's admissible evidence that the fans were disinterested/apathetic while the Mavs/Dubz played one of the better playoff games this year...