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  1. Just now, 52-80 said:

    there are other instances to rail against officiating - like how golden state is never called for their LOVE of holding/grabbing/pulling when setting their screens.  

    Yep, but another issue is the moving screens committed by every big in the entire league when trying to dictate the matchup. They'll get still for the initial contact of the screen and then grab/push the smaller defender toward the lane so they can't decline the switch.

  2. 2 minutes ago, BigVegasHorn26 said:

    At the end of the day, the right call was made.  It wasn't a charge - Lebron slid under him.  

    Also, wake me when they call a push off on Lebron or an offensive foul for any of the many times he lowers his shoulder and plows through a defender.  

    Lebron fouls defenders a lot (clearly shoved Livingston out of the way on the way to one of his dunks). But he also gets fouled a lot with nothing called. When you're that big and strong that's the way it is. Shouldn't be, but it is. So I don't really have a problem with it when he gets away with contact because he has to deal with it more than nearly any other player.

    Just now, d2o said:

    What about all the other calls that were wrong that weren't fixed?   Bad calls happen.   I'm good with that.    "Fixing" one in that time/situation and not fixing the others is the problem I have.

    Well there is a rule that explicitly allows certain plays to be reviewed at certain points in the game. If they allowed reviews and reversals for all 48 minutes of a game then people would bitch about that instead.

  3. It's a judgment call only in terms of human perception. The rule clearly states that if you haven't established position before the shooter begins his upward motion then you haven't beaten him to the spot. It's 100% a block. Durant actually began his upward motion at this moment:

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    As for being allowed to overturn judgment calls I have zero issue with that in any sport if it's allowed in the rules. And in this case it's allowed in the rules to review that aspect of the play if they've gone to the monitor. That part of the call was absurd, James was clearly not in the restricted area even watching live, but that's the rule. In fact I thought they were going to come up with some lame excuse about how they got confused by Jeff Green's feet being near the restricted area.

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  4. The part that makes it funny to me is that there are dozens of calls in an NBA game that are incorrect. It's 10 huge fast athletes being watched by three guys who are usually old. That leads to incorrect and missed calls.

    Meanwhile people are in here arguing one of the demonstrably correct calls.

    WTF? We've got a situation where Tristan Thompson may miss a game with the root cause being a horrific phantom elbow flagrant 2 being called. That's actually also the root cause for people wondering about Kevin Love's status too.

    But y'all want to talk about the call that was made correctly.

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  5. Just now, MNLonghornFUKM said:

    Why are you defending that they literally reversed a judgement call?

    NFL refs can't reverse a pass interference. But they can go back and call 12 men on the field. I've seen calls like lebron leaning get called charges and  blocks 

    This keeps getting better. Now we're using precedent from an entirely different league. Holy shit.

    You guys are a bunch of butthurt babies. It's hilarious.

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  6. Just now, Thatguy said:

      The restricted area is the only reviewable piece they are allowed to go to the monitor for.

    lulz

    This is also wrong. What a clown show on this thread.

    The debatable portion they have a right to bitch about is how in the hell the officials were unsure regarding James' presence in the restricted area. That was silly.

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  7. 2 minutes ago, Orca of Peace said:

    Jay said the NBA and college rules are different. There's no NBA requirement regarding movement. in the actual rule which he and the analyst read. 

    Again, ha. 

    http://official.nba.com/the-nba-rule-authority/

    Block-Charge: An on-ball, block-charge situation occurs when contact is made between an offensive player (who is moving in a particular direction or trying to change directions) and defensive player. The defender is permitted to establish his legal guarding position in the path of the dribbler regardless of his speed and distance. To get into a legal position, the defender needs to establish himself in the path of the offensive player before contact is made, thus “beating him to the spot,” and before he starts his upward shooting motion.

    Pretty hard to leave the ground before you start your upward shooting motion. Maybe the NBA doesn't know what their own rule is. Or maybe Jay Williams is wrong. Could go either way.

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  8. 6 minutes ago, Orca of Peace said:

    smooth Jay Williams says KD charged and it was a horrible reversal 

     

     

    Hahaha. He completely ignores that James is still sliding left when Durant leaves the ground. That is a blocking foul and it's not even debatable.

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  9. This part of the thread is funny.

    James had a great game. He was also talking shit about a block when his team was beaten. That's a move that will get you laughed at no matter the level or part of the season. You talk shit when you're getting beaten and you're going to get laughed at and shit talked back to you. Tough shit.

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  10. 7 minutes ago, Newdoc said:

    Yes, the first president to be described as the worst and the one who is going to ruin the country. Haven’t heard that accusation against another sitting president in years. Like 2 or 3 years. And I did not realize that Rosanne had such influence on our Republic.

    Trump is not a good president but lighten up with the hyperbole Francis. 

    Yes it's hyperbolic, but Trump is quite clearly the worst POTUS since Harding and he's rapidly passing Warren G.

  11. 14 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

    You know Caillou is dead right?  Cancer (hence the bald head).  That’s why clouds surround most of the scenes and why his grandma is narrating most of it  

    The whole cartoon is his grandma telling his little sister about things he did when he was alive.  His little sister was only like 3 when he died.

    If this is true it only strengthens my point. If you have died of childhood cancer and you are still that annoying in your own grandmother's wistful memories then imagine how much of an annoying little kid you were in real life.

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  12. 4 minutes ago, F250 said:

    That is some mind blowing shit. Has Canada ever threatened the United States in the past 150 years? This is like starting a neighborhood fight with Caillou's family.

    Well to be fair there has never been a character more in need of an ass-kicking than Caillou.

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  13. 1 hour ago, Whitman said:

    Rules require that you post pictures of your fiance before recommendations can be given.

     

    1 hour ago, Whitman said:

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    I think I'm going to withdraw my request for pics of finance...  NTTIAWWT.

    Well you did ask for pictures of a dude to begin with.

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  14. Is this only potentially unlawful because the state is her employer? Otherwise, why would the first amendment even apply?
    Been covered now, but this is why public supervisors have to be smarter than to fire someone for a reason like this. If it's true then this clown just wasted my money and your money because he's an idiot.
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  15. 1 hour ago, Patrick Bateman said:

    Then maybe the NFL shouldn't have politicized the moment for a cash grab a decade ago...... And now they can't put the horse back in the barn.  This wasn't an issue when nobody cared what the players did during the anthem.  

    Exactly.

    All the GO AMERICA stuff before sports games is dumb and doesn't belong. International competition? Fine. Private companies doing it solely for money? It doesn't belong in that context.

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  16. A couple in a car asked my daughter a couple of years ago if she needed a ride after she got off the bus (she was 12). She dropped her backpack, ran home, and called us immediately. All she could tell anyone was that it was a white car and the person in the passenger seat was a white man.

    They caught the couple a couple of months later in a different but nearby neighborhood. The car was silver but the guy was white so she was fairly close. In a traumatic situation it would be extremely impressive if an 8-year-old kid was able to remember that many details.

  17. Has Osterman done a good job with the Bobcat staff? Being a great player doesn't mean you're a decent coach, in fact many times the greatest players are terrible coaches because they can't comprehend why the people they're coaching don't just do it right because it was natural to them.

    If Osterman has done a good job coaching then absolutely bring her in as a pitching assistant for all the obvious reasons. But being a great player for us means nothing when it comes to being a coach for us unless it's backed up by coaching success.

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    I always find this cut and dry reasoning to be funny. Texas (and any school and their fans for that matter) have no problem cashing those multi million dollar checks that boosters write every year. Many who never graduated from the school. 

    It's a silly argument. Not every fan of a school graduated from that particular school. They could have grown up in Austin (or another college town) and went to another school for a major or whatever reason. Their entire family could have gone to that school, their kids go to that school, they are employed by that school, etc. 

     

    *cut-and-dried

     

    (You might have learned that at Texas)

     

    Also, injecting an athletics program's fundraising employees and concerns into the annual "should you ever root for a different FBS team than your undergrad alma mater" argument is silly. You act like Texas' attitude about money isn't hated by thousands of alumni.

     

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  19. 9 minutes ago, Tuco said:

    Does that go for all of the Texas fans on this board who didn't go to Texas for undergrad?

     

    If they went somewhere else that fields FBS teams for undergrad then yes. Did you think that was going to be some big gotcha or something? We're all dipshits for one reason or another, this just happens to be one of your reasons.

    If they didn't go to such a place then being a fan is perfectly okay.

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  20. 14 hours ago, Beau Vine said:

    That would fall into the category of "cutting off your nose to spite your face" as my grandmother used to say.  Having players like Deandre Ayton and Trae Young play is wonderful for the NCAA.  It makes NCAA basketball more interesting, more popular, and most importantly, makes money for the NCAA.  There is no way that the NCAA is going to approve freshman ineligibility.  It's a farce to even suggest it.  

    And thanks for your prompt reply.  

    I don't disagree that the NCAA lacks the balls to make the change.

    Although I do disagree with you that having Ayton and Young makes a significant difference in the game's popularity. If Ayton and Young weren't around then two other guys would have been the two best players in the country while Ayton and Young played in Europe or the D/G League. Hell, Young may have gone to college and then been an actually great basketball player his second year on campus after Kruger decided maybe he should teach Young when it's not okay to volume shoot in his 10th month in the program. College basketball survived just fine without the dozens of high school NBA draft picks ever playing.

    Bottom line is that freshmen ineligibility would absolutely force the NBA's hand on doing something about their rule. Or at least force them to improve their developmental league.

  21. On 5/14/2018 at 9:02 AM, Tuco said:

    Actually, I did keep rooting for Nebraska while going to a different school.  But, please, explain these rules to me.  What if the school you went to doesn't have a football team, or a FBS football team.  If you go to undergrad, masters, and doctorate at three different schools, are you required to throw out your fan gear each time you move.  I'm really curious about the arbitrary rules of fandom. 

    It's not arbitrary. You cheer for your undergrad alma mater. It is known.

    If you don't then you're a dipshit. If your undergrad alma mater does not field a team in a given sport it's fine to pick another favorite team, but saying "I'm a Cornhusker" when you're not is a lie and makes you a dipshit.

    Glad to help.

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