The "grudge part 2"? NBA ref Joey Crawford ruined what could had been a beautiful and exciting playoff game between the defending champs San Antonio Spurs and the Los Angeles Lakers.
The Lakers escaped with a 93-91 win and a 3-1 advantage with the series going back to tinseltown for game 5. Actually the series should have been tied at 2-all if not for the outrageous no-call of Crawford on a very obvious foul of the Lakers' Derek Fisher on a 3-point attempting Brent Barry of the Spurs. The Spurs had magnificently came back from a seven point deficit with 51 ticks to go to trim the lead of the Lakers down to a basket when Barry faked Fisher with the latter falling hard on the former at the 3-point area in front of Crawford and alas no whistle was blown!
It can be recalled that this is the same ref who ejected Tim Duncan last year in a regular season game for no apparent reason at all thus resulting into his suspension by NBA commish David Stern. Now Crawford had unleashed all his anger on the Spurs and what a time to do his revenge! This ref should had not been allowed to officiate in the playoffs in the first place, the league's image can be tarnished with this kind of cheap retaliation.
Joey Crawford has no place in the NBA! period!
The Lakers escaped with a 93-91 win and a 3-1 advantage with the series going back to tinseltown for game 5. Actually the series should have been tied at 2-all if not for the outrageous no-call of Crawford on a very obvious foul of the Lakers' Derek Fisher on a 3-point attempting Brent Barry of the Spurs. The Spurs had magnificently came back from a seven point deficit with 51 ticks to go to trim the lead of the Lakers down to a basket when Barry faked Fisher with the latter falling hard on the former at the 3-point area in front of Crawford and alas no whistle was blown!
It can be recalled that this is the same ref who ejected Tim Duncan last year in a regular season game for no apparent reason at all thus resulting into his suspension by NBA commish David Stern. Now Crawford had unleashed all his anger on the Spurs and what a time to do his revenge! This ref should had not been allowed to officiate in the playoffs in the first place, the league's image can be tarnished with this kind of cheap retaliation.
Joey Crawford has no place in the NBA! period!
Brent Barry didn't sell the shot well, Barry should have release the ball as soon as Derek Fisher made the contact,
ReplyDeleteThank God! No SPURS to the finals, Finals rating will surely improve compare to the boring finals last year