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Sick and tired of rewarding 3 points from GQ land. In the paint with elbows and power moves should be 3 points!
 
I kind of wish the NBA would go full spandex like the Australia women's team did.
 
Instant replay and the way it's currently used. It's so fucking stupid having an on-court ref wander over to the sidelines and stare at a monitor awkwardly while the whole arena waits 2-3 minutes. Fans at home can rewatch plays and easily tell if it was a foul within 15 seconds of the play. Why not just have a ref do the same?

Only refs on the court can stop action. Have a ref sit in a room and speak into the earpiece of the ref on the court. "I watched it 3 times, Larry, he flopped. No foul. Move on." You could have instant replay on practically every foul, and just have the guy watching TV override the on-court ref only when he judges it necessary. TV ref gets the final say. There are never stoppages for review. Even if they are lining up for a free throw, the TV ref can interrupt it and just cancel the free throws (before the ball is handed to the shooter) if he deems it the wrong call. You rotate refs so that sometimes they are on court and sometimes on TV, just so they all get a feel for how to manage the game.

If the on-court ref isn't sure of the call, he can always stall for 20-30 seconds while the TV ref makes up his mind. But TV ref has an upper limit of 30 seconds--if he doesn't know by then you just play on.

An added benefit is that it'd remove a ton of the home court bias and the whining at refs. Somebody isolated from the noise of the crowd and the whining of superstars can just go ahead and make the right call without worrying about the pressure.
 
meyers
evan turner
superteams
the slam dunk comp
the lack of traditional banger PFs and C's as the game is so overboardly guard orientated these days.
'spacing'
assholes hitting big shots when you know they are good players but just near impossible to like
our huge lack of guards on the team
 
openly tanking

"the modern game"

Alpha male GMs who are in love with hearing themselves talk, fill up press conferences with strikingly bold proclamations, then return to the office cowering at the thought of making trades. Are we mice or men?

The all-star game TV show. I don't "watch" it anymore. (Correction: I mean "listen" to the shitty music. There's no game to watch.)

Shooting without considering passing options, missing, then the commentator exclaims with admiration, "He shot without hesitation!" as if that's something good. "He won't miss many of those!" Ever heard of court vision?
 
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mook said:
Instant replay and the way it's currently used. It's so fucking stupid having an on-court ref wander over to the sidelines and stare at a monitor awkwardly while the whole arena waits 2-3 minutes. Fans at home can rewatch plays and easily tell if it was a foul within 15 seconds of the play. Why not just have a ref do the same?

Only refs on the court can stop action. Have a ref sit in a room and speak into the earpiece of the ref on the court. "I watched it 3 times, Larry, he flopped. No foul. Move on." You could have instant replay on practically every foul, and just have the guy watching TV override the on-court ref only when he judges it necessary. TV ref gets the final say. There are never stoppages for review. Even if they are lining up for a free throw, the TV ref can interrupt it and just cancel the free throws (before the ball is handed to the shooter) if he deems it the wrong call. You rotate refs so that sometimes they are on court and sometimes on TV, just so they all get a feel for how to manage the game.

If the on-court ref isn't sure of the call, he can always stall for 20-30 seconds while the TV ref makes up his mind. But TV ref has an upper limit of 30 seconds--if he doesn't know by then you just play on.

An added benefit is that it'd remove a ton of the home court bias and the whining at refs. Somebody isolated from the noise of the crowd and the whining of superstars can just go ahead and make the right call without worrying about the pressure.
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Well, that's more of the baseball way of doing things, having a "stall"... it works in baseball because there's already 30 seconds built in. But you KILL the flow of the game if you do it in basketball. Before a free throw sure, but a block/charge or a ticky-tack foul, no.

And in the TV room they have refs that are already on rotation. I believe they have a rotation of a week or so in the booth then back out to go do games... same as baseball does it.

IMO, you're asking to make the game even longer... I don't mind the human element of the game. Have humans decide the game. Yes, we get fucked sometimes (See: Washington game) but really... keep it natural.
 
bodyman5000 and 1 said:
Perfect timing for this thread. I'm sick of Greg Oden still looking like he could play.
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What???? Did you watch??? He had 11 and 5 against no namers, and got CUT from Big 3.

He should be dominating 3 on 3.
 
mook said:
Instant replay and the way it's currently used. It's so fucking stupid having an on-court ref wander over to the sidelines and stare at a monitor awkwardly while the whole arena waits 2-3 minutes. Fans at home can rewatch plays and easily tell if it was a foul within 15 seconds of the play. Why not just have a ref do the same?

Only refs on the court can stop action. Have a ref sit in a room and speak into the earpiece of the ref on the court. "I watched it 3 times, Larry, he flopped. No foul. Move on." You could have instant replay on practically every foul, and just have the guy watching TV override the on-court ref only when he judges it necessary. TV ref gets the final say. There are never stoppages for review. Even if they are lining up for a free throw, the TV ref can interrupt it and just cancel the free throws (before the ball is handed to the shooter) if he deems it the wrong call. You rotate refs so that sometimes they are on court and sometimes on TV, just so they all get a feel for how to manage the game.

If the on-court ref isn't sure of the call, he can always stall for 20-30 seconds while the TV ref makes up his mind. But TV ref has an upper limit of 30 seconds--if he doesn't know by then you just play on.

An added benefit is that it'd remove a ton of the home court bias and the whining at refs. Somebody isolated from the noise of the crowd and the whining of superstars can just go ahead and make the right call without worrying about the pressure.
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Clueless post. It's actually hilarious.
 
dviss1 said:
What???? Did you watch??? He had 11 and 5 against no namers, and got CUT from Big 3.

He should be dominating 3 on 3.
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Yeah. He looks out of shape. But he ran up and down the court. If his knees were as bad as mine he wouldn't make the whole length once
 
dviss1 said:
What???? Did you watch??? He had 11 and 5 against no namers, and got CUT from Big 3.

He should be dominating 3 on 3.
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To put it another way, he looked about as quick as Swanigan. And the announcers were like "so nice to see him smile and be on the court"
 
dviss1 said:
He's done.
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I guess I’m an old sap because I was just happy to see him make it back and forth, look like was having fun. He’s not anywhere close to an NBA player at this point or much of a player at all.
 
bodyman5000 and 1 said:
To put it another way, he looked about as quick as Swanigan. And the announcers were like "so nice to see him smile and be on the court"
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It’s not like he was Raymond Felton who was just fat and out of shape and collected the paychecks. He didn’t want his knees to give out and be a bust, I always at least somewhat felt bad for him and most other guys whose body can’t withstand the NBA / NFL or whatever league. So I am kind of happy to see him out there having fun.
 
TorturedBlazerFan said:
It’s not like he was Raymond Felton who was just fat and out of shape and collected the paychecks. He didn’t want his knees to give out and be a bust, I always at least somewhat felt bad for him and most other guys whose body can’t withstand the NBA / NFL or whatever league. So I am kind of happy to see him out there having fun.
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I'm not mad at him. I'm tired of seeing him pop up every few years just to remind me what could have been.
 
TorturedBlazerFan said:
It’s not like he was Raymond Felton who was just fat and out of shape and collected the paychecks. He didn’t want his knees to give out and be a bust, I always at least somewhat felt bad for him and most other guys whose body can’t withstand the NBA / NFL or whatever league. So I am kind of happy to see him out there having fun.
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Given what we now know about his drinking and partying (and his brother's similar problems) I am not convinced this is true.
 
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