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What made the Dampier body check a flagrant is because he was not going after the ball at all. A good hard foul is you go after the ball and you make sure it doesn't leave the hand of the other player, or you make sure the player falls to the ground after you hit the ball.
His INTENTION was to bump Kobe, he never went for the ball. That is why it should've been a flagrant. If he wanted to send a message, what he should've done was to go up challenge kobe while getting full contact of the body and knocking him to the floor. Not just run straight into someone and body check them.
And like you just agreed to, Dirk got his calls. Regardless of how often he get calls going his way, they called it on the Lakers and didn't call it on Dallas. That's what anger players and fans.
You can botch calls or see a certain foul a different way, but you have to be consistent. If you want to be wrong, be consistently wrong. After the gambling incident, we all know certain Refs CAN have their own agenda, which can alter the outcome of the game. So can you not wonder when all the calls are going towards one team and not the other? The ecouraging part is Laker still came out with a W.
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