On behalf of all Mavs fans...

Wojnarowski on Yahoo is taking OKC in 5...

http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/playoffs/2011/okcdal;_ylt=AmXOkU8_SgDgS2z9NGFKX368vLYF

 

TTFU

 

I'm not going to take seriously the opinion of a guy whose last name I can barely pronounce.

 

Game one is HUGE for the Mavs, getting to 2-2 is a necessity for OKC

 

Why, it's not like you can pronounce dirks last name

 

Uh....uh....uh...uh....uh....

 

Nomisski is easy to pronounce.

 

Now Flip Ski

 

Fadeaway Führer

 

Mavs playing better but Joey Crawford also has Dirks dong firmly down his throat

 

Free Throws

OKC 37-43
Dallas 34-36

Not to mention Durant flying into the first row and drawing an absolute phantom foul on JET in the first half.

Or Perkins inadvertent elbow on Marion that broke his nose.

 

Thanks for posting that. I keep hearing Thunder fans saying that Dallas got all the calls.

 

Well, they're hung up on the 24 free throw attempts that Durant got.

Nevermind that the last 2 came off a Russell Westbrook foul to intentionally send Dirk to the line. Or that Durant got 19.

So in the normal flow of play, Dirk got 3 more free throw attempts than Dirk did. And somehow, that factored into the outcome.

Just. Stop. OK?

Both players got a ridiculous benefit from the star system of officiating. A benefit that neither player will probably get in any other game in this series.

Instead of looking at Joey Crawford, how about looking at your All Star PG who went 3 for 15 from the field with no 3 pointers? Or your bench that poured in a grand total of 16 points?

Really, some of you are acting like Oklahoma State fans.

 

Durant shoots an *** load of free throws..2nd in attempts in the league behind dwight howard..Westbrook is 8th...I don't understand what the big deal is..

Durant gets those kinds of call all the time.

 

Superstars get superstar calls. That ain't changing. Both teams are lucky enough to have a guy that qualifies for those.

 

I just fail to understand how 2 different series can be officiated so radically different. OKC vs Memphis didn't get a foul called unless blood was drawn. I don't care about the amount of free throws, OKC is a more physical team than Dallas. Calling a game so ridiculously tight changes the flow of the game. The officials controlled that game more than they should.

That said, Dirk shot out of his mind and Westbrook never left the locker room. Sucks to spot Dallas a game, but I don't think the rest of the series will go this way.

 

Its not about the number of FTs that Dirk shot, its about the number of touch fouls that they called on OKC against Dirk

 

Coolest nickname. Doesn't have to be associated with genocide.

 

Also Grapevine, I guess you missed where I said Dallas was playing better?

 

game 2 is big. on one hand, i feel pretty good that dirk seriously went off like that and OKC kept it close. on the other hand, i have on clue how we are going to go about defending dirk...