Mark Cuban is still talking about the officiating in last year’s playoffs. He can’t let it go. And, now it’s gotten to the point where even his lack of a comment speaks volumes. His new answer to the officiating question is basically: just look at the tape of last year’s Finals
Let it go, Mark…Let it go.
The history here is that during the playoffs last year and long before than that Mark has been very critical of the officiating in the NBA.
After the playoffs last year, it was interesting that the star player, Dirk Nowitzki, came out and said that Cuban was going to have to tone it down a little.
Now, in New York a writer went to the Mavs practice and didn’t quote Dirk. But in the article he spoke to a couple other Mavericks about Mark Cuban’s criticism of the officiating.
Let’s go to the quotes of the players:
Jason Terry said, “…you get on somebody long enough and they are going to have a reaction…” And, he’s right, if you hammer and hammer and hammer on the officials long enough, you will get a reaction…A negative reaction.
Jerry Stackhouse said, “…we don’t want to give people the impression that we’re a whining team. Cuban can be a distraction if you look at it that way. He’s always going to be like that. He’s not speaking for us. He’s just like the fan in the 10th row. Some things are out of control. Sometimes it does carry over. We made a conscious decision as a team to layoff the refs.
This Maverick team comes off as looking like a whining team even though it’s not any more. Cuban’s constant whining makes the team look bad. If Mark Cuban had an employee that was annoying other employees and doing anything that looked detrimental to the organization, he would fire them.
What has his 6 years of complaining done for the Mavericks? Absolutely nothing.
And from the players comments, it looks like it is starting to affect the team in a negative way.
