These officials are terrible. It's 8 minutes into it and they've already lost control of the game. Now watch, they're going to over-compensate and call every little thing. Mike Delaney and Violet Palmer are the worst crew in the NBA.
2 in a row and Heading Home Excerpts: <div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">Rookie Spotlight Play: Marcus Banks - There are times when Marcus Banks' phenomenal defensive talents seem at thier peak. On this play around 5:38, Marcus saw a pass across the paint into the low post, with S.Hunter on the recieving end. Hunter collected the pass and went up to attempt a 1 handed dunk. Banks slipped across the paint towards him, elevated, and challenged the shot, stuffing him straight up and eventually pushing the ball free as they started to head to earth. Tommy and Mike were yelling: Banks vs the 7FTer!!!! It was a hell of a block, timed near perfect. It absolutely was a display of athleticism in him getting up there to get his hand on that ball to stuff him. Good moment. It's bound to be a Play of Day Candidate on at least one of the networks sports shows tommorrow.</div> <div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">Rookie Spotlight play: Delonte West - The Celtics stole the ball and 'Toine got off a shot that missed. DWest went in there banging for the rebound. It was knocked loose from everyone and West gave chase. It looked like he had collected it when a Suns player jarred it loose, sending Delonte instantly hurling his boding after it. He pounced on the ball and called timeout just before being landed on by several diving Suns players. It was a great hustle play, not to mention that Delonte's head paid the price for it in the final scramble. (This was the second time his head took abuse from PHX players, but we'll get to that later. Just know that during the timeout, they had ice on the side of Delonte face and chin.) </div>
Well, I'm glad to say I was wrong, the refs weren't nearly as bad as I expected them to be th rest of the game. I don't care if Nash was there or not, great win by the Celtics.
