I agree 100%

If you look at the play Haslem clearly didn't go for the ball at all... He was retaliating for the hard foul that Hansborough delivered to Wade... and for those that say Hansborough's was just as bad need to check the replay, as he clearly made contact with the BALL before Wade's head...

The other foul, later in the game when the Heat player used his Elbow to Spear the Pacer player in the Neck is a complete disgrace, and he should be suspended for the rest of the playoffs without question.

The fact that the Refs did not eject either Heat player in complete garbage.

Also, on a side note, the fact that the refs "let them play"
ie: let most fouls go in the Playoffs that would have been fouls in the Reg Season is a complete joke... If its a foul in the Reg Season, it should be a foul in the Playoffs... They shouldn't allow the game to "change" as much as they do...

Every talks about how the Playoffs are "so different" than the regular Season, and I agree, but its not because players are playing harder, its mainly because the Refs let them "get away with" outright assault in most of the games...

Last night was a joke. How in the HELL do they not toss both Haslem and that scrub that played at UT? This actually gives credence to those that argue David Stern and the NBA conspire to get Miami into the Finals yet again.

Like Barkely said at halftime of the game, the diff between now and the late 80's and 90's is that the players back then at least made the hard fouls look legit. Today, its simly assault.

who will bring in the most viewers to the nba?? stupid question, the heat.
look and the first round series vs the knicks and you'll see the nba told the refs to favor them....its disgusting
the nba would hate a spurs vs pacers finals because two small markets that won the fair and proper way, a finals true basketball fans would love to see
but thunder vs heat will get viewers who arent the biggest basketball fans
spurs will get hosed in the conference finals...i'm a extreme spurs fan, but even i know this maybe where the road ends this season

Its just amazing to me how much an NBA Ref can change the outcome of a game... 2 quick fouls on Tim Duncan or Tony Parker or any star player like that can drastically change the outcome of a game... Then they make things worse when you throw in the fact of them calling clear "make up" calls on the other end, like they are doing the team a favor by "making things right" after they know they screwed up in the first place...

Like I said in my previous post, they are so damn inconsistent with their foul calls its disgusting. A foul needs to be a foul regardless of when its made. Reg season, playoffs, 1st quarter, 4th quarter... a foul is a foul is a foul... but thats not how it works...

I think this is also the reason you see so many NBA Players complaining with the refs on foul calls, because there is no consistency whatsoever.

Yep. It's totally messed up and sad that the NBA has come to this. The bad move on the Pacers part is not winning game four because you have NO chance in Miami if the refs are favoring them. The league did nothing to DWade after his foul/ on Collison. How can a team with three gold medalist/starting All-Stars do the most flopping, fouling and complaining? Lebron and Wade are two of the strongest guys in the league. They have no business flopping. With the skills they have they should have no problem playing for it night in, night out. The B in NBA doesn't stand for basketball anymore and the A stands for acting.

I was there at Game 4. These ridiculous calls, and no calls, by the refs could be excused if they were given without BIAS. The terrible refereeing in the third quarter of game 4, not only cost the Pacers the game, it may cost them this series. We all sat there and watched while the refs whistled fouls on Pacer players guarding Lebron that no one else on the floor got, but Lebron. The obvious want of the league to have Lebron and the Heat make it to the Finals, strictly for FINANCIAL reasons, is out of control. The Pacers controlled the entire game leading up to the third quarter. A little more than a couple minutes into the third quarter, the Pacers were up by 10 points. Within the course of about six or seven minutes, they were down by 10 points. I ask you to go look at the tape of this game and the calls that were made during that six to seven minute stretch. The only way to describe it is "Outrageous!" Granted, the Pacers missed shots I believe they should have hit, but I still doubt they would have survived the onslaught of the Heat PLUS the refs.
If you ask me, and I stated this at the game, we all know the history of teams coming back from being down 3-1: Stern made that call at half-time.
And as far as Game 5 is concerned,.. its a case of the child that knows they're the favorite. When you know you can do things without fair repercussion than what's to stop you from doing it? Does anything think that The Heat don't know the league wants them in the Finals? Lebron's flopping is evidence of their clear understanding of the favoritism that is being sent their direction.

The Heat handled biz last night, bottom line. Seems like this is just "East" bball to me IMO. All of the hard fouls and "playoff basketball" needs to take a rest. Just play ball guys. Besides, the 2 best players were still on the floor for the Heat while Pacers were getting throttled to a blow out. In the end, they need to call all of these stupid fouls down the middle and stop with the nonsense. I think Kenny Smith had it right - make the player that fouled a guy hard sit out as long as the player he hurt has to sit out with an injury. This aint basketball in my mind. This is streetball, and in streetball, you get knuckled up on if your Tyler H. & if your Haslem. And Dexter Pittman... oh man - you sir are an idiot. Makes no sense to even foul like that in an NBA game...

Tim Donaghy is somewhere saying "I told you so" to all of us. Heat vs, Knicks game 1 was crazy and this whole series as well. Wade flat out pushed Collison in the back and got nothing. Who cares if Haslem misses game 6 when you let him stay in a pivotal game 5? WWE and NBA are the same things.