UNFAIR officiating is still unfair officiating no matter who wins the game. The fact of the matter is that during the entire playoffs Miami has benefitted from it whether they have won the games or not & it's not even debateable. During the Pacers series the only game that was officiated fairly was game 1 & that was only because the NBA knew that eyes were watching since the coach got fined for saying they flop like fishes out of water. Even with that DirtyWade got away with a clear flagrant 2 on Collison. The rest of the games there were techs called left & right on Granger( at least 2 of which were for him getting in LeFemaleDog's face after he threw an elbow), that's the kind of crap that if it were most other teams would have been called a double tech on both players. Then we have the Haslem flagrant 2 that only got upgraded a day late & a dollar short & the countless other fouls, etc. that were called on the Pacers while the same fouls were not called on them. I don't even like the Knicks enough to have paid attention past game 1 to what were probably more evidence of the same. It's been clear since the start of the season who the NBA wants in the finals from the East & guess what, it ain't the Celtics or the Pacers,or Knicks....I'll even go far enough to say it wasn't the Hawks or Philly either which is why we benefitted from a little bit of unfair reffing ourselves. Truth be told if Rose didn't go down we probably wouldn't even be in the ECF because the matchup they wanted was Heat vs Bulls.
As far as our series so far,It's not just about the 5 BS techs on the Celtics, it's also the blatant non-calls in our favor as well. Miami was getting away with fouls(on Pierce, Rondo & Bass), travels, delay of games, taunting, & whining to the refs, that were far worse than anything that Ray or Doc did or said to warrant a tech (see Master Splinter, Haslem & LeFemaleDog), yet somehow their whistles got lost up the Heat's behinds or something! Right? That must be it!
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We were still tied at the half despite the obvious unfairness of the refs whistles so we do not lay blameless in the loss... us getting outrebounded, missing jumpers & free throws clearly didn't help our cause but let us NOT act like Miami would have been "just better. Period" if they had gotten nearly as much flack as we did. And please don't act like those bunch of gimme calls against the Heat late in the 4th somehow negate everything that they got away with prior to that simply because at the end of the game the foul shots were close to even.
Topic: Quit whining about the Refs. Miami was just better. Period. (Read 29556 times)