Here's what i wrote after game 4:
Quote Originally Posted by 3BallBomber:
I played Cavs solely based on Scott Foster and it paid off. Surely they cannot tilt the game towards Cleveland again for 3 consecutive games in a row. If so then Bulls never had a chance to win this series, spite of them taking that 1st game, wich most likely would have then been just a decoy, a ploy to extend this series. Again i will look at who they will send for game 5. I'm leaning Chicago atm so hopefully who ever they send to officiate will help support that. I smell Joe Crawford coming.
Well it looks like my nose was right, could smell his stench a mile away. Game 5 ref crew are Joe Crawfod, Derrick Stafford & Zack Zarba. This couldn't get any worse for Chicago Bulls fans and those who have Bulls future series wagers like. Let me bring up their playoffs stats:
Joe Crawford: 6-2 SU for the
home team in the playoffs. Again i'm not going to look up ATS record but i'm fairly certain, much like Foster, his ATS for the home team is a positive also. He has not officiated a Cavs game yet these playoffs but he has ref'd 1 Bulls game - Game 5 vs Bucks.....Chicago lost by 6 pts. I remember that game was pretty suspect.
Derrick Stafford:2-2 SU Home/Road. Ref'd 0 Cavs games. Ref'd 1 Bulls game - gm6 vs Bucks where Chicago won the series by a massive blowout.
Zack Zarba:6-1 SU for
Road team. He ref'd gm1 of Cavs/Celtics series - Cavs won by 12pts. He ref' gm4 of Bulls/Bucks series - Bucks won by 2pts.
Ref crew are 14-5 SU for Home Team. 
If that's not concerning enough here's some more:
Joe Crawford &
Zack Zarba ref'd game 3 of Hawks/Wiz series - Washington won by 2 pts in wich Wizards were the
HOME TEAM.Joe Crawford &
Zack Zarba also ref'd Game 2 of Clips/Rockets series - Houston won by 6pts. Rockets were the
HOME TEAM.
If my fears are correct, if it indeed aligns w/ these home stats w/ these chosen ref crew and Cavs do take game 5 then Bulls really never had a chance in this series......wich ultimately means game 1 Bulls victory was just a means to extend the series. We saw game 3 officiating was tilted towards the Cavs and then again for game 4 - wich means if Rose didn't bank that game 3 buzzer beater in and lost the game in OT would they still have given Cavs game 4 or the Bulls?
To me for them to have given these Cavs friendly refs for 2 consecutive games and now what seems like 3 consecutive games then it was Cavs all along that was supposed to win this series....even though i feel Bulls should really be up in this series. So Bulls will then become Lebrons new Boston Celtics.....Boston i feel were cheated two consecutive ECF's by Lebrons Miami so the league could get Miami to the NBA Finals.
Does Chicago still have a chance if they lose game 5? sure they do, they are not dead yet but almost.....it's fairly tough to win 2 in a row, especially against Lebron and the refs
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