Poor Mavs Fans

Personally, I think this has been one of the best NBA Finals I have watched in a long time. Plus, the playoffs have been spectacular. The officiating on the other hand has been less than steller. Its been amusing to watch the officials eat their whistles when blatant offensive fouls have been committed by players (LeBron travelling by about 2 steps against Washington, Wade getting phantom calls all the time, and these are players that I love) that it is almost sad to watch a great playoffs ruined by officials who are about to fossilize on the court (or in Dick Bavetta's case mummify, its just very scary). Anyway, the Finals are probably going to go 7 games because this is what the dictator...er David Stern wants. Hopefully, when Stern retires the referees will start calling the game properly, and this includes moving screens. Maybe some fairness in officiating will come to the forefront during Game 6 and 7, but more likely Game 6 will be a farce and Dallas will have about 60 free throws to Miami's 5, and maybe Game 7 will be fair, but its doubtful. This is just further proof that we should have robots be the officials. I mean look at tennis, line judges are slowly being eliminated with the introduction of the spot shadow computer camera. Or how about baseball with the Questec system, pitchers may hate it because umpires have had all discretion taken away from them in terms of shifting the strikezone, but at least the rules are now applied consistently.