Spurs vs Heat - The official 2013 NBA Championship thread!

Offensive foul.

Funny how JVG didn't whine about it.

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Pop should have been T'd up for leaving the coaching box.

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ACtually it wasn't. Even the Ex NBA ref of 30 years who they have on for the finals explained why it wasn't a foul.

 

Both coaches have come onto the floor multiple times in almost every game and no T has been issued for either one for doing it.

 

Who, Steve Javie? Come on. He slammed Miller in the face and cleared him out. I've seen that called a foul plenty of times, and even by Javie.

 

Well, Pop was clearly out of the box there, and Spoelstra wasn't. Would the Heat have been robbed had they lost because of this obvious violation on Pop? It's an automatic technical unless you call a timeout, and the Spurs didn't have a timeout.

 

but the referee's had called a ref timeout to review Allens shot. That was already signaled before Pops stepped onto the court.

 

PapaG, it is pointless to argue with LeBron haters. They just have a blind hatred for the guy for some reason. They seemingly can't enjoy a guy who does what coaches dreamed every superstar did - make the right play.

 

Yea Steve Javie couldn't remember his name. The way he explained it and you can see it on the slow motion, Leonard's arm is fully extended before Miller reaches him so its not like Loanard is purposely hitting him in the face or shoving him in the air instead its Millers momentum that carries him into Leonards outstretched arm, thats incidental contact and looks bad but isn't a foul.
Edit- This series because like every NBA game you can pick out at least half a dozen big bad calls or straight up missed calls, thats what you get when you only have 3 refs trying to pay attention to the fastest paced game in the world and they don't get the benefit of an overhead view. Its been a fairly physical and in my opinion, really well reffed series.

 

The Spurs had so many chances to put it away. Who cares if a few fouls were missed?

 

I'm really starting to question if you watched the game or not. He was shooting like under 30% the first 3 quarters before he dominated about the first 9 minutes of the 4th q. In that 9 minutes he only missed like 1 shot and scored half of his total points. After a timeout was called wade came back in and the spacing was gone for the heat and james started struggling again with multiple turnovers and missed shots. It was a classic chokejob. He's fortunate that the spurs choked harder than he did.

 

The refs blatantly stole this from SA.

The Stern Decree: 7 game Finals

And so it shall be.

 

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I didn't realize Stern made the Spurs miss those free throws. That was very cruel of him. I also can't believe he forced Pop to bench Duncan on the final couple possessions. Usually Pop wouldn't go for something like that.

 

Some clownshoes posts in this thread on both sides of the debate. Personally, I hate LeBron but the Heat win (more Spurs loss) was legit.

 

Have to agree, painfully. TWICE Duncan was sat to guard against 3's, both times Heat got offensive rebounds and then hit 3's after all. Spurs had 10 point lead going into the 4th (yes, painfully familiar to Blazers fans) and a two possession lead with less than a minute to go. There was a no call on Manu but also a no call on James. Throw in Spurs not hitting their 3's and a HUGE missed free throw late. Make that FT and the Spurs still have a one point lead, 5 seconds left, Heat have to foul (hard to do in less than a second), then advance the ball upcourt with maybe 4 seconds at most.

 

If the Spurs hadn't bricked so many free throws in regulation, there's no overtime and no need to worry about the fact that end-of-game foul calls (or lack of them) generally favor the home team.

 

This +1

 

Agreed, AND

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Lebron James' playoff record: 66-53.
With Joe Crawford: 25-3
W/o ref Joe Crawford: 41-50!

 

Yup.