[Fwd: Gatling, Walker]

[Steve Huffman <stevhuff@eastky.net>]

Mike Dynon wrote:

> Jonathan McIntyre wrote:
> >
> > There was something in the Boston Globe this morning that says Pitino
> > reviewed the Celtics' private tapes of the game in slow motion and saw
> > that there was no contact between Walker's elbow and Gatling's nose.
> > Gatling did a major acting job to play it up.  You could even see that
> > on the regular broadcast, that he was overdoing it, and that's what
> > Antoine has repeatedly said, too.
>
> Those refs sent NJ to the line 56 times.  They saw an elbow thrown, a
> player grab his mouth, and assumed the worst.  There's no way they
> weren't going to make that call.  In the first half, Walker nudged
> Gatling from behind on a rebound; Gatling staggered to the floor and got
> the call; as he walked to the FT line, a close-up showed him wink at a
> teammate.  Gatling's a faker, and the refs are easy to fake out.
> Antoine has to learn which players will do that, and avoid giving them
> the opportunity.  That's what experience is all about.
>
> Mike Dynon

  In tonight's game with about 2:00 or so to go, Gatling drove to the
basket, had
his shot blocked, Mercer grabbed the loose ball rebound, moved quickly and
to me it looked like Gatling made the same fake on Mercer to draw another
phantom foul, like the fake foul called on Walker.  TNT showed the Walker
incident in slow motion many times tonight.  The more I watched it the more
I believe that Gatling faked the contact and foul.  When Gatling drew back
tonight when Mercer moved to protect the ball, proves to me that Gatling
faked the foul just as Mike Dynon said in his post above.

Steve Huffman