The Jazz were coming back until that **** call on Carroll
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reignman40
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This game was full of **** calls, that one being the worst. They wouldn't call **** on the Spurs even though the jazz were battling inside. Yet they breathe on Duncan or Parker and they go to the line. Same thing in the 2007 WCF The jazz had a chance to tie the series but Genitalobi's flopping not only got Fisher two T's and tossed it gave them free points. Face it we got robbed at the end and always will.
Scorpjazz
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I, for one, readily admit that some teams, Lakers, Spurs, Heat, get tons of help from officials. It is obvious and to deny it is silly.
BUT, it made NO diference in this series. The Spurs were vastly superior. Yes, it makes it even more frustrating when watching it to see Duncan fall away and throw one up at the shot clock buzzer and get the refs to bail him out over and over. But, I recall the Malone/Stockton Jazz getting alot of those same calls....as long as it wasnt against the Bulls. We have never been at the top of the ref bias chain, but we have been near the top before. It happens.
The Spurs pounded the Jazz with or with out help from biased officiating.
BUT, it made NO diference in this series. The Spurs were vastly superior. Yes, it makes it even more frustrating when watching it to see Duncan fall away and throw one up at the shot clock buzzer and get the refs to bail him out over and over. But, I recall the Malone/Stockton Jazz getting alot of those same calls....as long as it wasnt against the Bulls. We have never been at the top of the ref bias chain, but we have been near the top before. It happens.
The Spurs pounded the Jazz with or with out help from biased officiating.
I believe that the if the games were called totally equally for all players, many playoffs in which one team dominated would have turned out totally differently. Upsets would have been much more commonplace, and many teams that have been considered elite would have not been elite.
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As a team, The Jazz never got elite contender status from the refs. Sure, they got calls against average teams in the regular season, like Minneapolis, but in 80% or more of playoff series they were at a disadvantage, even when they had the better record, against teams like Seattle, Dallas, Sacramento, San Antonio, Houston, Chicago over the last 20 years. There may have been a couple playoff exceptions, but not many.