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Roddy, meet Westbrook
Got to give Mark Cuban and his Dallas Mavericks Media Spin Machine credit: I thought after losing at home to the Oklahoma City Thunder 95-86 that they would go with the "Lamar Odom and Brendan Haywood were out!" and "Dirk Nowitzki isn't right!" route in defending the loss.(Actually, it's not a bad loss no matter what. The Thunder are a good team. It's OK.)
Instead, they went the "The officiating is terrible!" route.
Sad. So 2006. Leave it to the man with the 20-year-old dance moves and 40-year-old special ed haircut to use a six-year-old excuse in defense of a loss.
Cuban failed to mention a couple of points (unless they went unprinted). How about the Mavericks getting crushed on the boards by 11? The Mavs shooting 35 percent? Mavs going 4-19 from behind the three-point arc? The pathetic defense against Russell Westbrook, who not only ate their lunch, but made them go back into the kitchen, fix another lunch and ate that too. That the Mavs' starting five went 17-51 from the field. Dirk Nowitzki isn't right. That the only good Mavs were (and in this order) Jason Terry, Brandan Wright and Shawn Marion.
The Mavericks losing out on a couple of calls (which they might not actually have lost out on and doesn't account for any calls that the Thunder failed to get) was not the reason they lost the game.
A little effort on the boards, a little defense on Westbrook and someone hitting a shot and the Mavs win.
By the way, when writing a story about officiating, don't include the free-throw differential. The officials' jobs are not to make sure everyone gets the same amount of free throws. They're job is to make the right calls as much as possible and as consistently as possible.
As for Cuban, we shouldn't expect any less grace or class especially after his coach kicked a ball into the stands (whether it was intentional or not, why even do it?) and hit a kid.
Nice.
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