League acknowledges Spurs' Barry was fouled

tlloyd34 · Post #1 » by **tlloyd34** » Thu May 29, 2008 8:06 pm

The league office on Wednesday reviewed the final play of the San Antonio Spurs' 93-91 home loss to the Los Angeles Lakers in Game 4 of the Western Conference finals and acknowledged that a two-shot foul should have been called on Derek Fisher for impeding Brent Barry.

"With the benefit of instant replay, it appears a foul call should have been made," league spokesman Tim Frank said Wednesday.

It seems like the NBA has come out and made public statements that certain calls should/shouldn't have been made. Of course we have our own experience with this!

I was wondering if this has ever happened before. Especially in important play-off games. I don't understand why the league would do this. I just seems to make the fans more upset when they confirm our thoughts about a "bad call."

Any thought?

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theTHIEF · Post #2 » by **theTHIEF** » Thu May 29, 2008 8:15 pm

welcome to the club...

macdalejax · Post #3 » by **macdalejax** » Thu May 29, 2008 9:35 pm

It might have something to do with the whole referee gambling issues they've had.

Post #4 » by **Tommy Udo 6** » Fri May 30, 2008 7:32 am

Joey Crawford was suspended most of last season for harassing the Spurs & even apparently challenging Tim Duncan to a fight.

THIS IS NOT THE MAN WHO SHOULD BE REFERRING A GAME LIKE THIS.

The man is obviously not neutral when it comes to the Spurs

Assign him to the Celtic-Piston game instead

darthcheech2000 · Post #5 » by **darthcheech2000** » Fri May 30, 2008 10:57 am

Unless they do something about it, why even say it was a bad call.

macdalejax · Post #6 » by **macdalejax** » Fri May 30, 2008 4:42 pm

The league office is, IMO, trying to demonstrate that they are NOT supporting any kind of referee deception or anything of the nature. It's basically their way of publicly admitting "they had nothing to do with it."

magicfan4life05 · Post #7 » by **magicfan4life05** » Fri May 30, 2008 5:02 pm

Apology Doesn't Help Spurs
As you might imagine, the Spurs weren't exactly elated to hear that one day later, the NBA acknowledged a two-shot foul should have been called when Derek Fisher landed on Brent Barry with just over two seconds remaining in Game 4, when the Lakers led 93-91.

"Oh, thank you, that's a great help," Spurs Coach Gregg Popovich deadpanned Thursday evening, before Game 5. "I'll send some flowers to the NBA."

The news prompted Barry to throw out a "Back to the Future" reference.

"That's awesome," Barry said, "Because Doc Brown is waiting for me outside, and we're going to get in the DeLorean and fire up the flux capacitor and we're going to go back and shoot a couple of free throws."

-- J.A. Adande

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