Yuzo Lightheart
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I wouldn't say that the finals are rigged...in that case the spurs would never make it with them always being a bad draw...and the spurs would always lose...instead of being undefeated...
One reason that these games have been blowouts is because the refs are just letting them play...usually in an nba game when team 1 gets rolling all of a sudden the refs start calling fouls on them...which sends team 2 to the line...and team 1 has players get in foul trouble so they go to the bench...and bam team 2 is back in it since the flow and momentum has changed due to the calls
Ref's are not doing that this series...the only way to end a run is to play better defense or call a timeout and regroup...you can tell that the spurs are not worrying about calls and don't really expect to get any because miami goes on a little 6 or 8 point run and Pop calls timeout...meanwhile spo leaves his team out there to get gutted on a 14, 16, 19 point run because he is expecting the refs to start calling fouls because well...that is the way the nba works...
Now I find it suspicious that Joey Crawford reffed game 2...and I find it suspicious that the heat are lik 20 - 2 when whoever that guy that refs game 4 refs their game...
this is a good post all these momentum runs are very strange. what you said about calls interrupting momentum is something i never really thought about but youre right and i never realized how much power that could have on a game until seeing how all these uninterrupted momentum swings have been occurring this series. ive seen posters even predicting it in the game threads like " here comes miami's run" or "heres the spurs turn to have a run" like the teams arent going point for point like a normal game but trading run for run. it does not seem natural at all
if the theory is true it would mean that refs can cool off a teams run at any moment and in a game pattern of run vs run it basically all comes down to that. i have to pay more attention to that in particular next game though before i start saying that is what it is.