too many for your liking?
― Wayne Grotski (symsymsym), Thursday, 10 September 2020 02:21 (three years ago) link
Sorry--Marcus Smart, I meant. (Making fun of myself.)
― clemenza, Thursday, 10 September 2020 02:23 (three years ago) link
#WeTheNorth #WeTheNorth #WeTheNorth #WeTheNorth #WeTheNorth #WeTheNorth #WeTheNorth #WeTheNorth #WeTheNorth #WeTheNorth #WeTheNorth #WeTheNorth #WeTheNorth #WeTheNorth #WeTheNorth #WeTheNorth #WeTheNorth #WeTheNorth #WeTheNorth #WeTheNorth GAME 7!!! FRIDAY AT 9:00PM ET ON TNT— NBA (@NBA) September 10, 2020
the fix is in
― ciderpress, Thursday, 10 September 2020 02:28 (three years ago) link
what the hell
― lag∞n, Thursday, 10 September 2020 02:46 (three years ago) link
the bubble has made a radical replay abolitionist of me
― Clay, Thursday, 10 September 2020 03:04 (three years ago) link
that was an epic game and also fuck all refsi think the lack of fans is really adversely impacting these playoffs far more than anyone anticipated
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, 10 September 2020 03:19 (three years ago) link
can you say more about what you mean by that? the games have been super competitive but i'm open to ideas about why lack of homecourt is still bad.
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 10 September 2020 03:22 (three years ago) link
MPJ just has no idea how to play defense
― k3vin k., Thursday, 10 September 2020 03:23 (three years ago) link
pic.twitter.com/rvEYXNfgea— mose (@bosemergmann) September 10, 2020
― k3vin k., Thursday, 10 September 2020 03:26 (three years ago) link
xp i think it's less about homecourt and more about the fact that any crowd faced with this ridiculous proliferation of egregious calls and nonstop flagrants and techs would necessarily start booing and screaming and chanting and changing the way the refs call the game. They're human! Scream at them long enough and they start to get distracted and more willing to allow the players to play rather than disrupt the flow. In the bubble, you're getting these end of close game clusterfuck situations with multiple questionable calls compounding and it feels like the refs more than the players are driving the game and setting the pace. It's not been preferable!
also, get nurse off the actual court please; that's GOT to be a tech sooner or later.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, 10 September 2020 03:28 (three years ago) link
ok, yeah, completely with you on all of those points. the refs are overofficiating, badly. replay is a disaster. and i think nurse is the best coach in the nba but i have always felt that any coach who tries to affect live action (which he did) should be thrown out of the game.
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 10 September 2020 03:36 (three years ago) link
i know everyone in the world loves monty mccutchen but his regime isn't working at all.
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 10 September 2020 03:37 (three years ago) link
What’s going on here
Reporting with @ESPN_MacMahon: Houston Rockets forward Danuel House Jr.’s status for the remainder of the Western Conference semifinals is in jeopardy as the NBA probes a potential violation of bubble protocol. House has denied any wrongdoing to the league.— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) September 10, 2020
― Spottie, Thursday, 10 September 2020 04:16 (three years ago) link
Smdh ... https://t.co/uNwDxmJgQ2— Damian Lillard (@Dame_Lillard) September 10, 2020
― Spottie, Thursday, 10 September 2020 06:05 (three years ago) link
malone needs to get over his obsessions with defense and realize the team he has is suited to be an offensive juggernaut and just learn how to harness that. or we need a new coach
― k3vin k., Thursday, 10 September 2020 12:54 (three years ago) link
I mean it sucks that MPJ has the basketball IQ of a puppy but he was +6 last night. the number of times he made defense-minded substitutions when the nuggs were down double digits was infuriating. torrey craig should not be getting more than 10 minutes in game 5 imo
― k3vin k., Thursday, 10 September 2020 12:57 (three years ago) link
Danuel House under investigation for hooking up with one of the covid testing officials in his room?
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Thursday, 10 September 2020 14:27 (three years ago) link
its was just for some... testing
― lag∞n, Thursday, 10 September 2020 14:29 (three years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ehjhs_cX0AQ28Ru?format=jpg&name=medium
― lag∞n, Thursday, 10 September 2020 14:49 (three years ago) link
must be getting pretty horny in the bubble
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 10 September 2020 14:55 (three years ago) link
doin' it bubble-style
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, 10 September 2020 15:00 (three years ago) link
bubble butt
― lag∞n, Thursday, 10 September 2020 17:44 (three years ago) link
“I’m sure there’s going to be a lot of love and joy … which they certainly need,” Nurse said last week before cracking a smile. “Hopefully that’ll translate to the court.”
― circles, Thursday, 10 September 2020 17:46 (three years ago) link
Raps made it to game 7 because Fred VanVleet is having sex is how I break it down to an extent
― circles, Thursday, 10 September 2020 17:48 (three years ago) link
nba not allowing for hoes in the bubble was a huge oversight
Report: Alleged Danuel House incident believed to be far from isolated https://t.co/nOEIhsda74— Kurt Helin (@basketballtalk) September 10, 2020
― lag∞n, Thursday, 10 September 2020 18:17 (three years ago) link
Michael Porter is a messy bitch who loves drama and maybe he’s exactly what the nuggets need
― Matt Armstrong, Thursday, 10 September 2020 20:50 (three years ago) link
L2M report is out. NBA says league missed foul call by OG on Kemba Walker at end of regulation.— Brian Robb (@BrianTRobb) September 10, 2020
yeah
― lag∞n, Thursday, 10 September 2020 21:40 (three years ago) link
yeah that one was obvious and i think there was another similar one on kemba in OT
― ciderpress, Thursday, 10 September 2020 21:58 (three years ago) link
don’t really understand why they release the last 2 minute reports to the public. if they are striving for some sort of transparency they could just release them to the teams but it mainly just provides fuel for people to complain about officiating for longer. maybe that kind of engagement is the point lol
― k3vin k., Thursday, 10 September 2020 22:09 (three years ago) link
did they explain how the clock went from 2.2 secs to 0.9 on the inbound play?
― Wayne Grotski (symsymsym), Thursday, 10 September 2020 22:14 (three years ago) link
considering how bad the celts got fucked by the refs in that endgame i have to presume they're gonna hang back more for game seven
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, 10 September 2020 22:25 (three years ago) link
really wanna see this commercial
Scottie Pippen had a juice drink in the 90's called "Zippin." It was EXTRAORDINARY.It launched in Baltimore/DC, Chicago, and upstate NY and was promptly discontinued. I think about it all the time and I hope, wherever he is, Scottie Pippen appreciates the lives he changed. pic.twitter.com/EA2nTwOUxM— Ben Rosen (@Rosen) February 11, 2020
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, 10 September 2020 22:35 (three years ago) link
don’t really understand why they release the last 2 minute reports to the public. if they are striving for some sort of transparency they could just release them to the teams
― k3vin k., Thursday, September 10, 2020 6:09 PM (fifty-one minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
its transparency with the public, but the thing that would be actually interesting is releasing the report for the whole game
― lag∞n, Thursday, 10 September 2020 23:02 (three years ago) link
everyone otm about these reviews tho. its out of control.
― Spottie, Thursday, 10 September 2020 23:09 (three years ago) link
the challenges are real bad too, they just immediately get game theoried to 'save this to use on only a 3pt foul'
― ciderpress, Thursday, 10 September 2020 23:22 (three years ago) link
they shd just give each team 3 challenges and thats it the refs cant review anything on their own except last two mins of the game
― lag∞n, Thursday, 10 September 2020 23:24 (three years ago) link
or mb not even last two mins idk
― lag∞n, Thursday, 10 September 2020 23:25 (three years ago) link
not enough uninterrupted gameplay/"uptime" has always been a leading criticism of the game and all this stuff just makes it worse
― ciderpress, Thursday, 10 September 2020 23:25 (three years ago) link
yeah i mean people hate bad calls but the thing thatll make them stop watching is the game being unwatchable
― lag∞n, Thursday, 10 September 2020 23:27 (three years ago) link
none of these measures even get rid of bad calls though, they just give the league a little more plausible deniability
― ciderpress, Thursday, 10 September 2020 23:43 (three years ago) link
just review mostly everything during tv timeouts
― Spottie, Thursday, 10 September 2020 23:44 (three years ago) link
NBA: look here! we publically admonish our refs and tell them to do better in the future.
― the unappreciated charisma of cows (Aimless), Thursday, 10 September 2020 23:45 (three years ago) link
i’m not sure what we get out of the NBA being like “yeah our refs screwed up royally at the end there” but it happening like every game for years on end
― J0rdan S., Friday, 11 September 2020 00:15 (three years ago) link
i think the purpose is to make it clear that they know what their own rules are, they haven't changed and although a poor interpretation of the rules led to a team losing, um... see point one
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 11 September 2020 00:39 (three years ago) link
Rockets getting bullied
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Friday, 11 September 2020 00:43 (three years ago) link
jordan said it right the other day--this series is over
― call all destroyer, Friday, 11 September 2020 00:45 (three years ago) link
beginning to think not ever playing a center is maybe not the best strategy
― methinks dababy doth bop shit too much (m bison), Friday, 11 September 2020 00:51 (three years ago) link
removing all plausible centers from your roster doesnt give you a lot of flexibility as far as playing centers goes
― lag∞n, Friday, 11 September 2020 01:32 (three years ago) link
you gotta have a center
― ciderpress, Friday, 11 September 2020 01:33 (three years ago) link
interesting that all the teams poised to make deep, or deeper-than-expected, runs this year are highly versatile and can play with different lineups and different offensive and defensive styles. i wonder if the houston rockets have noticed this trend.
― call all destroyer, Friday, 11 September 2020 01:34 (three years ago) link