I feel bad when a person's entire career or life becomes defined by a single colossal failure, but at least JR was already viewed as a clown before, I guess.
"I want to see the whole picture--as nearly as I can. I don't want to put on the blinders of 'good and bad,' and limit my vision."-- In Dubious Battle
I hope we get more and more Durant isolation plays in game 2 to slow the Golden State offense down. Although apparently breathing on the guy is a foul...
Joesanity wrote:I hope we get more and more Durant isolation plays in game 2 to slow the Golden State offense down. Although apparently breathing on the guy is a foul...
They were allowing a lot of contact in the paint on both sides.
Joesanity wrote:I hope we get more and more Durant isolation plays in game 2 to slow the Golden State offense down. Although apparently breathing on the guy is a foul...
They were allowing a lot of contact in the paint on both sides.
If I was picking an All World team today he would absolutely be a top 2 pick though. That ability to get your shot off whenever you need to is unbelievable. That he makes so many of them is crazy too. He could only shoot 18 footers for the rest of his career and still average 23 a game.
Maybe it was, maybe it wasn't. It was still complete crap to call it in that situation. On a play that likely decides a game you need to let the players earn it if at all possible instead of bailing them out with free throws.
verb_to_trust wrote:Maybe it was, maybe it wasn't. It was still complete crap to call it in that situation. On a play that likely decides a game you need to let the players earn it if at all possible instead of bailing them out with free throws.
I don't get that rationale. You want the right call because its the freaking NBA finals. They reviewed it because they didn't know if he was in legal position, not because they thought he was in the circle. It's a way to give the refs a chance to make the correct call. And they did. Just because you make a great read doesn't mean you can't foul.
verb_to_trust wrote:Maybe it was, maybe it wasn't. It was still complete crap to call it in that situation. On a play that likely decides a game you need to let the players earn it if at all possible instead of bailing them out with free throws.
I don't get that rationale. You want the right call because its the freaking NBA finals. They reviewed it because they didn't know if he was in legal position, not because they thought he was in the circle. It's a way to give the refs a chance to make the correct call. And they did. Just because you make a great read doesn't mean you can't foul.
Completely disagree. They are only allowed to review it if it may have been in the restricted area. Then when looking at that they can also review the subjective portion of the call of whether he’s in legal guarding position or not. That’s a horrible rule. Reviews should only be for objective things like in/out, 2/3, restricted/not. To review any sort of common foul is absurd because they are so subjective and because they aren’t reviewing every foul. The Cavs clearly got hosed on back to back foul calls just minutes earlier when lebron stripped KD and then on the next possession got fouled across the arm but no call. Even assuming that it was 100% clearly the most obvious block ever, which it wasn’t, it’s still ridiculous to allow the refs to reverse that subjective call but not the others because lebron’s foot was somewhat close (but far enough away that there’s no way that’s why they really looked at it) to the restricted area. It’s a massive double standard, it shouldn’t have been reviewed and the Cavs have every right to be upset that they didn’t have the ball up 2 with 36 seconds to play.
"I want to see the whole picture--as nearly as I can. I don't want to put on the blinders of 'good and bad,' and limit my vision."-- In Dubious Battle
verb_to_trust wrote:Maybe it was, maybe it wasn't. It was still complete crap to call it in that situation. On a play that likely decides a game you need to let the players earn it if at all possible instead of bailing them out with free throws.
I don't get that rationale. You want the right call because its the freaking NBA finals. They reviewed it because they didn't know if he was in legal position, not because they thought he was in the circle. It's a way to give the refs a chance to make the correct call. And they did. Just because you make a great read doesn't mean you can't foul.
Completely disagree. They are only allowed to review it if it may have been in the restricted area. Then when looking at that they can also review the subjective portion of the call of whether he’s in legal guarding position or not. That’s a horrible rule. Reviews should only be for objective things like in/out, 2/3, restricted/not. To review any sort of common foul is absurd because they are so subjective and because they aren’t reviewing every foul. The Cavs clearly got hosed on back to back foul calls just minutes earlier when lebron stripped KD and then on the next possession got fouled across the arm but no call. Even assuming that it was 100% clearly the most obvious block ever, which it wasn’t, it’s still ridiculous to allow the refs to reverse that subjective call but not the others because lebron’s foot was somewhat close (but far enough away that there’s no way that’s why they really looked at it) to the restricted area. It’s a massive double standard, it shouldn’t have been reviewed and the Cavs have every right to be upset that they didn’t have the ball up 2 with 36 seconds to play.
verb_to_trust wrote:Maybe it was, maybe it wasn't. It was still complete crap to call it in that situation. On a play that likely decides a game you need to let the players earn it if at all possible instead of bailing them out with free throws.
I don't get that rationale. You want the right call because its the freaking NBA finals. They reviewed it because they didn't know if he was in legal position, not because they thought he was in the circle. It's a way to give the refs a chance to make the correct call. And they did. Just because you make a great read doesn't mean you can't foul.
Completely disagree. They are only allowed to review it if it may have been in the restricted area. Then when looking at that they can also review the subjective portion of the call of whether he’s in legal guarding position or not. That’s a horrible rule. Reviews should only be for objective things like in/out, 2/3, restricted/not. To review any sort of common foul is absurd because they are so subjective and because they aren’t reviewing every foul. The Cavs clearly got hosed on back to back foul calls just minutes earlier when lebron stripped KD and then on the next possession got fouled across the arm but no call. Even assuming that it was 100% clearly the most obvious block ever, which it wasn’t, it’s still ridiculous to allow the refs to reverse that subjective call but not the others because lebron’s foot was somewhat close (but far enough away that there’s no way that’s why they really looked at it) to the restricted area. It’s a massive double standard, it shouldn’t have been reviewed and the Cavs have every right to be upset that they didn’t have the ball up 2 with 36 seconds to play.
I don't disagree with any of this.
I don't either. Nice
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verb_to_trust wrote:Even when the warriors win LeBron will be the story. The Olympic all star team winning another title will just result in a collective shrug at this point. In the next season or two things will get weird for the warriors somehow and it will fall apart. Circle of life.
I've been saying this about GSW ever since they won their first title and people were jumping off bridges, fearing no one would win another anytime soon. The only legit recent dynasties are the Bulls, then Spurs. GSW are far, far away from that.
verb_to_trust wrote:Even when the warriors win LeBron will be the story. The Olympic all star team winning another title will just result in a collective shrug at this point. In the next season or two things will get weird for the warriors somehow and it will fall apart. Circle of life.
I've been saying this about GSW ever since they won their first title and people were jumping off bridges, fearing no one would win another anytime soon. The only legit recent dynasties are the Bulls, then Spurs. GSW are far, far away from that.
I would give GSW dynasty cred without Durant. But his signing there was just so fucking weak.
verb_to_trust wrote:Even when the warriors win LeBron will be the story. The Olympic all star team winning another title will just result in a collective shrug at this point. In the next season or two things will get weird for the warriors somehow and it will fall apart. Circle of life.
I've been saying this about GSW ever since they won their first title and people were jumping off bridges, fearing no one would win another anytime soon. The only legit recent dynasties are the Bulls, then Spurs. GSW are far, far away from that.
I would give GSW dynasty cred without Durant. But his signing there was just so fucking weak.
So a dynasty team can't make their team better by signing a guy when they have cap room?
