By EDDIE SEFKO / Staff Writer
Jerry Stackhouse unloaded on veteran referee Dick Bavetta after Thursday's 98-89 loss to the San Antonio Spurs, saying that he knew the Mavericks were in trouble when he saw Bavetta as the crew chief.
"It's tough to come on the road in this environment and have to play agains the refs, too," Stackhouse said. "[Expletive] Dick Bavetta.
I'm tired of his [expletive]. It's like the game is about him. He just needs to call the game and call the fouls.
"It's like he didn't because we were up and he wanted to see them [the Spurs] come back."
Stackhouse and Robert Horry were called for a double technical foul when they got involved in a scrum late in the game.
The Mavericks believed Horry bit Stackhouse during the scuffle, which did not escalate.
"We saw it and are on it," owner Mark Cuban said of Horry's alleged nibble. "
We will send it into the league and I'm sure he will be suspended."
Stackhouse could not confirm the bite. But he left no doubt about his displeasure with Bavetta.
"This game was about Dick Bavetta," he said. "He called a double technical foul like he's trying to sort it out. But he never saw what happened. If he'd seen what had happened, he'd know I got an offensive rebound and Horry came down and gave me a cheap shot at the other end.
"He was grandstanding. He wanted to dictate the game. If the game was called right, we wouldn't have been fighting from behind at the end."
Stackhouse said he wasn't concerned about possible retribution from the league office about his comments.
Bavetta, leaving the arena nearly two hours after the game ended, had no comment.
EDIT: Here's a video
http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=2352796 with the incident of the two T's
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