The Dallas Mavericks are staring into a dark, deep, (sweepy looking) hole. They are facing a Houston Rockets side that have every answer for all their tactics. Mavericks head coach Rick Carlisle is a master tactician. But with Parsons being injured and Rajon Rondo being one of THE hardest people to work with. Carlisle wishes he had hair just so that he could pull them out by the fistful.
And the referees are certainly not helping Carlisle’s stress levels. As he is simply done with the apparent poor refereeing.
“Look, referees miss calls, but there’s just a lot of physical stuff going on out there that just doesn’t look kosher to me,” Carlisle said after a 130-128 loss that put the Mavs on the brink of elimination. “They’re a more physical team, but this series has got to be played within the rules.”
“We’re scrambling like hell defensively and Devin Harris is going to get the ball, and Dwight Howard throws him into our bench,” said Carlisle, adding that he had reviewed the play six times on film. “He takes the ball, skips it over the top and [Trevor] Ariza gets a wide-open 3. So instead of us getting the ball and a foul on Howard, it turns into essentially a five- [or] six-point swing.
“That stuff’s got to stop. The officials got to get that stuff under control, because there’s too much physical stuff going on. Howard is throwing people all over the place, and that can’t happen in Game 4.“
With the complete synergy that the Houston Rockets have. I can’t see the Mavs winning game 4. It has just been an absolute train wreck of a Playoff performance from the Mavs. And it isn’t like they’re putting effort in (Well. That may be the case for Rondo). The Rockets have been very good in the Playoffs. A far cry from their tragic appearances in recent years.
