Congrats Stern

[Arctic]

All NBA champs deserve an * until this stupidity changes.

Unless the suns would have won, of course.

 

[Bong]

Suns woulda won had it not been for Stern-idiot/mutha****

 

[Arctic]

Suns woulda won had it not been for Stern-idiot/mutha****

Are you drunk? You're saying this in every single thread, and it's a lame cop out that gives suns fans a bad name.

 

[gdiddy]

That's right. Blame Stern for enforcing rules.

It was so not Amare and Diaw's fault for breaking them.

If he had enforced the rules, both Duncan and Bowen would have been suspended in game five.

Had he also reviewed his "rules," Bruce Bowen on his own would be serving many suspensions for the cheap shots he has taken on players like Stoudemire, Allen, Bryant, etc.

Had the rules been equally enforced in this series, you wouldn't have had so many idiotic fouls called on Amare--remember the dirty Duncan takedown on Amare in game 1 that got coach D the technical, and Oberto's flop?

And finally, had the stinkin' rules been enforced, our two time MVP would have gone to the foul line 15-20 times per game. It's amazing how he pentrates and goes to the basket but gets no call when he gets hacked, and yet pretty boy Parker can score his way to the free throw line as effortlessly as he can score on Eva Longoria.

Had Dick Bavetta had a pair of eyes from when he was 60 years younger, he would have seen that Amare made a great hustle play rather than stepping "out of bounds" in game 6.

Sorry, but playoff basketball doesn't reward teams that play clean with finesse. Hence, the "soft" image (Phoenix, Dallas) versus the "hard" image (San Antonio, Detroit).

Which is why basketball ratings stink.

All thanks to the our friend David Stern.

Kind of wish it was like the NFL, where calls can be challenged with instant replay. Imagine how many times coach D would be throwing out that red flag? Imagine how that rule would alter the play calling in the NBA? What ref wants to have a bad rap of getting bad calls overturned over and over?

Without some sort of accountability, it gives dinosaurs like Bavetta a free pass to make the rules.

 

[dodie53]

Had Dick Bavetta had a pair of eyes from when he was 60 years younger, he would have seen that Amare made a great hustle play rather than stepping "out of bounds" in game 6.

i remember this play,
then after the spurs get the ball dick made a make-up call by calling a travel on bowen..