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Godspeed.
The Pacers-Bucks game is on the NBA Network and Bally Sports? Great.
And its blacked out locally on NBA Network, so only available on Bally at $20/month. I'm sure locals are still pleased to have paid $250M to support the new stadium!
I've texted my teenager to get a dodgy stream link for this evening.
That is insane.
The thing that is especially insane is that they have been near the bottom of the league in drives per game. This year they averaged 39.4/game (4th least), a full 23 below #1 OKC. Last year they were 8th lowest. This year they were also about mid-pack in paint touches. So it's not like they are putting tons of pressure on the rim.
I'm seeing three calls that should have been called but weren't - two against NYK and one against PHI - and two mentions of timeout attempts - one that sounds like they might be admitting they should have called and the other not so much, but neither very clear one way or the other since they are not directly addressed as correct or incorrect.
Good. It's been 15-20 years. Time for a league refresh.
Pretty clear the timeout before the inbounds should have been granted.
I agree. I've been a long suffering Celtics fan for 11 years without a single title.
AD being down on the ground on offense 4-5 times a game hurts his team a lot. Tough to vote him DPOY when his team is facing 4 on 5's that many times because of him.
Welcome to the party pal. :diehard:
The Pacers-Bucks game is on the NBA Network and Bally Sports? Great.
And its blacked out locally on NBA Network, so only available on Bally at $20/month. I'm sure locals are still pleased to have paid $250M to support the new stadium!
I've texted my teenager to get a dodgy stream link for this evening.
Then get the hell in the officials face and call it. Nurse needs to be not so damn passive in his "kinda calling timeout" thing
20 man rosters.
absolutely ridiculous. and all the "oh maxey pushed off first" people here have disappeared. Pretty clear the ref missed 3 calls all within 3 seconds of game time, and completely changed the game. It's a shame.
What about the non-call on Embiid with 35 seconds left from the report. Or do only the calls that benefit Philly count?
Damn you're cherry picking here. If you want to go back through the whole game, we could.
Nope, that one 'bad play' (in which the NBA officially stated that the refs missed 3 calls on, which would have sealed the game) hurt a lot more.
Hurt more than the offensive rebound two seconds later that lead to the three by DiVincenzo?
Yes. The refs missed 3 calls (all of which you defended were fine that they didn't call), and the NBA agreed that they missed all these calls, and if they would have just called one of them, the series would be 1-1. Completely inexcusable (Except for by you, who is extremely dug in and even arguing now with the official NBA report on the missed calls)
I don't think I've made a single statement on the validity of any of those non-calls. I just think it's silly to blame the refs for the loss when there were many things in that specific sequence the team could have done to avoid that result. Make the timeout call more obvious from Nurse, have the inbounder (Lowry?) that was making a tough inbound right about the time the 5 second call was going to be made call the time out, when Maxey dove on the ground he could have called a timeout or at a minimum not handed the ball to Hart, grab the rebound on the first missed three (Hartenstein grabbed that over FOUR Sixers). All of those things seem like they would have negated the non-calls.
Yes, of course they could have. I don't disagree with you on that at all. But you could say this about any play in sports. A ref misses a blatant PI in football, and it could be "well he could have thrown it to this other wide open receiver instead", or a ref calls a phantom offside in soccer and it's "the player really could have just waited an extra second before moving forward".
2/3 teams won shot quality again and won the games.
The likelihood goes up, but no guarantee the Sixers win with any of those calls. There was :27.0 seconds left during the inbounds in a 2 pt game. The Sixers would have either had to make 4 FT's and/or get a stop in 2 possessions to guarantee a win...and at the way things were going, that was far from a sure thing.
Not exactly, but actually turning toward the nearest official and being demonstrative would have made a big difference. A ref can't call what he can't see and they were all 3 focused on the 10 guys running around as they were supposed to. His hesitation was the biggest blunder. They probably just glanced at him after the ball went through and then when he didn't call it right away, they focused on the players. As a result the only way to know there is a TO is to hear it (impossible in that situation) or see it out of the corner of your eye. It is kind of an impossible position to put officials in and they really should have some kind of buzzer system or ability to grant it after the fact with replay or maybe allow someone at the scorers table to assist. Big problem could be loose balls where both coaches are trying to call it at the same time as you have to rule on who has possession as well. It is a very messy system, but then again, so is the ridiculous standard refs are held to of slow-mo perfection with perfect calm professionalism in the face of constant criticism and scrutiny.
Yeah, I wasn't referring to your post specifically, more some of those above where they suggest the coaches become a rabid fan and run onto the court.
Embiid can't just fall down and grab a rebound.
The Suns have the big names, but that team build makes no sense in combination. Big new governor energy in Phoenix struck the franchise hard, and it's only going to get worse.
At the end of the day, if Joel Embiid is the guy who won't let his team lose, he gets the rebound of the missed 3 there anyway and the whole thing is moot.
we got it up here on FOX Sports WI for free
The Pacers-Bucks game is on the NBA Network and Bally Sports? Great.
And its blacked out locally on NBA Network, so only available on Bally at $20/month. I'm sure locals are still pleased to have paid $250M to support the new stadium!
I've texted my teenager to get a dodgy stream link for this evening.
Officials have their eyes on the play, not on the coach. He's gotta do something more demonstrative than whatever that weak *** attempt was
Meh, we only need it for probably 2-3 more games.
I like the salary component, but am fine doing a draft without it if that’s what the people want. Democracy!
I'd be interested in doing this.
