I guess you watched a different game than the rest of the country. Either that or you’re willing to look past an unfairly officiated game. It’s not just Suns fans and players that noticed:
absolutely, this, I try not to be one of those fans but it does happen. I know it's hard when you see bad calls, I thought the 5th foul on Luka in game 3 was harsh and it caused him to miss much of the fourth quarter when Phoenix went on a mini run. And obviously Luka could not make contact on defense for the rest of the game when he went back. But Dallas overcame it and deserved to win, there were some bad calls against Phoenix as well in game 3.
Just goes to show there's a lot ref blaming everywhere when the end result doesn't go your way. EDIT: I think even when you win you can still bash refs, regardless of if the calls were for or against your team.
It's embarrassing and I'm not surprised. Dumb fans gonna be dumb, every game I've ever gone to I've seen dumb fans that want to make other people uncomfortable or start some BS. and I will easily say the cowboys fans are the dumbest around, but every fan base has them. You can't reason with them and the ones that are looking for a fight are just waiting for someone to knock them out of their misery. it's not worth it. I don't know why players bring their families down there, I would offer mine a suite if that is an option, but I'm never letting my family sit court side, it would be too much of an unnecessary distraction for me. I know a lot of players do it though and their families should be protected a lot better than they are.
I don't want to speak on Monty because I don't follow him and the suns closely, so far I've mostly heard good things about him, especially in the Dallas media, but we will see how he motivates his players now. He definitely has his work cut out for him. I do think that J-Kidd did a good job calling out his players after game 2, he even called out Luka for being a bystander on defense...maybe not the exact words but he definitely addressed it to the media.
Yup totally fair and not rigged /s
Not rigged. Not fair, but not rigged. I've never seen a "fairly" refereed game. The aggressor gets far more leeway than the non-aggressor. Dallas was clearly the aggressive team.
And Luka cries incessantly and is the golden child.
He does. And he is. Yes, he's one of the protected few. But even he pleads his case better than we do.
Unfortunately, if that's true and the Suns from top down don't know how to do it correctly, it's not going to happen in this series or even these playoffs. And if Paul doesn't know how to do it at this stage, he never will. I guess we're not going anywhere this postseason since we don't know how to play the referees.
