My eyeballs have been bulging out of my head for the past 20 or so hours like Tim Duncan when he does his “What? Me foul?” face.

These playoffs have been ridiculous. I’m not just talking about the non-call, which was especially infuriating because I’m a Mavs fan. I’m talking about across the board. I’m still waiting for the league to call that flagrant on Rondo. Helen Keller would make a better referee than some of these dinosaurs they’ve got calling the games.

Note to David Stern: You can pass all the dress codes you want to try to clean up the league’s image, but all the sweater vests in the world aren’t going to change the fact that these playoffs have been decided by a bunch of thugs: the ones with tattoos on their necks socking people in the throat and the ones with whistles.

I think it’s pretty funny that the refs cost us the chance to win the game. Well I guess to be fair Wright did. I mean tapping someone at the three line in the last 5 seconds of a game then throwing your hands up as if you weren’t trying to foul is NOT blatantly trying to foul someone. If only the Nuggets flopped then it would have been blatantly obvious. So as the mavs end their season, it’s pretty obvious that the only people they have to blame is themselves.

Sorry, guys, I really don’t think the Nuggets would’ve made a big deal out of the no-call if Melo had missed. Think about it … of all the reasons they would’ve lost the game, of all the questionable calls … that one? That was the best look Melo was going to get in the last 6 seconds, bar none. This one only boils down to Mavs fans complaining because they lost.

I hate when people blame other outside reasons for there team blowing. It was a great game and it sucked to see one of the teams lose, but Denver made 2 of 17 FG in the first quarter, How come Dallas was not able to build a little bigger of a cushion with that, The Nuggs looked horrible and some how were still in the game at the end of the first, there was a lot Dallas could have done with the first 47 min and 59 sec to win that game it did not come down to one play.

that regardless of that no-call, I hate to break the news, but you’re not going to beat us in this series. Do any of you really think that Dallas has the gas to get past us? You’re kidding yourself if you do. Even up 2-1 instead of 3-0, I still think we win the series. I just hope some goon off your bench doesn’t pull some shit in the next game. I’d forefit this next one in Dallas and then roll you up in Denver to finish it off if we could…

Denver is 10 deep and you don’t have anything legit beyond Terry off the bench, and aside from Terry, and Dirk and Howard’s gimpy ankles, you’re not scaring anybody. Oh and by the way, Carlisle is a total donk and you’ll be calling for his head soon enough if you haven’t been already. Seemingly nice enough guy but he’s just not NBA head coach material. I had to suffer thru his “consistently coming up short” coaching in my years in Detroit (as a passive fan) and you will be yearning for the Avery Johnson years until he’s gone. He looks like he should be a sit-com dad instead of a coach.

I also think that he is a good summation of your team in general. Too many nice guys, not enough diesel. Dirk and Terry are nice guys and quality players but you have no intimidation factor on your team. Howard? Laughable. Dampier? Constantly has a look on his face like he’d rather be fishing or that he can’t wait to be done playing basketball, plus he sucks in general.

I’m not here to attack the Mavs or their fans, but rather to tell you that you need a facelift, big time. I DO hate Cuban though… he’s a douche. Maybe the karma gods won’t let you win until he’s gone… which won’t happen til he dies in 30 years or gets banished.

One call or not though, you know we have the better team. And our star doesn’t get engaged to craigslist transvestites.

There’s the one where you hold the guy and stop the play.

And then there’s the gambler’s choice: you run up on the ballhandler and make a hard slap for the ball. In this case a few things can happen: One, they call the foul, as you may have wanted. Two, you slap the ball out and they don’t call the foul — even better. And three, you don’t slap the ball out, they don’t call the foul, and the guy goes on to drill a three and win the game. Wright took a gamble and lost. He also forgot the oldest rule in sports: you don’t stop playing till you hear the whistle. You can argue Wright kinda didn’t stop playing as he raised his arms to be sure he didn’t get called fouling on the shot. But he still should have contested Melo’s jumper.

Did the ref even know that Dallas had a foul to give? (is it the scorer table’s job to track that?) As a guess, I think the ref had a brain lapse and thought he’d be sending Melo to the line with a chance to tie the game over a hard bump in the backcourt. He was probably as nervous and confused as Wright, and he swallowed his whistle, as refs tend to do in the closing seconds of close games. He blew the call. But Wright, c’mon man, it’s the playoffs. Don’t leave anything to chance. You never know what you’ll get from a ref in that situation. As this post said, Wright deserves a bit of the blame.

I feel for Mavs fans. The ref blew a call that their strategy depended on. It was a truly soul crushing way to lose a game Dallas fought hard to win and probably deserved. But as Denver did, you play the ball, not the refs. Denver stole this one — to their credit. (and yea, I’m a Nuggets fan)

It’s not Carlisle’s job to tell the refs his strategy. Guy’s got enough on his plate. But in these games, as fouling was clearly his plan, it couldn’t hurt and probably should have been done. But damn. The announcers recognized what he was trying to do, why didn’t the ref?

This is one of those games that will change the way coaches communicate with the refs forever, at least for Carlisle.

Sigh. Another NBA playoffs, another “official” NBA apology. Another way in which coaches must adjust to wacky officiating.

Is that the only way the mavs can win a title is having a team that can cruise through the playoffs winning by 10+ everytime … If we are close at the end of games, the clutch refs will always come to fuck us …

i feel as if over the past few years the mavs have had calls and non-calls not go their way more than any other team. yes, i don’t want to have to rely on the zebras to help us win, but i also don’t want them to help the other team win. i realize refs are human and they’re prone to mistakes but its just frustrating to see how more often than not the calls or missed calls work against the mavs. its also frustrating because other fans see us as whiners and what can we really do or say about that when games aren’t as fair as they should be.

also, overall i feel this playoffs in general have been poorly officiated. k-mart only got a technical for blatantly shoving dirk, which got turned into a flagrant 1 AFTER the game. Artest’s flagrant 2 which got changed to a flagrant 1 AFTER the game. Kobe thew an elbow at Artest and nothing happened. Rondo could have been called for a flagrant on Brad Miller and could have been thrown out for throwing Kirk Hinrich. The non-call on Antoine Wright’s intentional foul. the list goes on…