As he did for us last year, Tim Donaghy, a contributing writer for The Sports Connection (www.DannyB.info) and a former NBA referee who spent 11 months in prison for relaying inside information to gamblers, will review the performance of his former colleagues during the NBA Finals. Here's a quarter-by-quarter break down of Game 6, with accompanying video.

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FIRST QUARTER

9:59 [MIA 5-4] Good no-call as James drives into the paint. This is not a foul; James is just flopping all over the place like a fish out of water. The officials saw the flopping he did in Game 5, and that must've been an embarrassment for them.

6:48 [MIA 16-11] Wade carries the ball on this drive to the basket. He pauses with the ball and pulls it across his body, and that causes Kidd to go off-balance, leaving Wade with an open path to the basket. Officials should've made this call.

5:11 [MIA 20-15] This isn't a foul on Nowitzki, and it's a pivotal play because with two fouls, it forces Dallas to take him out of the game for a spell. That's Scott Foster's whistle. He'll make a lot of close calls throughout the game in Miami's favor (see in particular 7:38 and 5:52 in the fourth). I'm not saying he was in the tank for the Heat. I'm just saying that, subconsciously or not, officials will often ref the series the way they ref the score of a game and give the close calls to the losing team. The foul here wouldn't have been called in Dallas, and I'd say it wouldn't have been called in either city if Miami had been up in the series.

2:09 [DAL 25-24] Wade travels prior to this jump shot. The officials also miss a 24-second shot-clock violation — the ball never hits the rim in the possession.

1:28 [DAL 27-24] Correct call: James is set before he and Chandler make contact, and he's also just barely stepped out of the restricted area. You can bet that James was eager to take a charge like this after Chandler got him in Dallas.

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