Man, I am so sick of hearing about this call. Yes, Fin was out of bounds, it was a bad call. Dallas was up 3 at the time, they made one of two FTs, so it was a 4 pt game v a 3 pt game. I don't see how it effected the game that much.
No one mentions the blown call on the clean Jet Terry block of Wesley that made it a two possession game. The blatant shove Mike James had to Dirks back at the end, or the blatant holding James had on Jet when it was 102-100 and Dallas was trying to inbound.
Or the fact that Erick Dampier can't look at Ming without getting a foul called. Or that Ming gets about 8 fouls a game yet only gets called for 5. The officiating isnt perfect, but it isn't like we aren't getting bad calls to, cause we are.
It would have had no effect on the game had they called the Finley out of bounds play correctly. The Rockets fans even gripe about the foul on Padgett on Finley in the corner trap with 17 seconds to go. Umm, that helped the Rockets, Finley didn't have to move the ball across the line and could have ran the clock down or simply called the Mavs remaining :20.
That last 3.8 seconds that the Rockets got after the Jet FT 1/2 situation would have not existed had the refs not helped the Rox out and called the foul on Padgett.