Why NBA "Basketball" is a joke.

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  1. HackettSuxTNG

    HackettSuxTNG Well-Known Member

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    Umm... Where is the travel?

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  2. nyjunc

    nyjunc 2008 TGG Bryan Cox "Most Argumentative" Award Winn

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    That happens in college too

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  3. Mantana Soss

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    Haha I like how you just so happened to find Duke as the offender both times.

    Also, some inconsequential feet shuffling didn't get called so an entire professional league is a joke?
     
  4. displacedfan

    displacedfan Well-Known Member

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    I don't know about college, but for the NBA

    Feet shuffling rarely gets called if you're so far away from the hoop.
    Traveling is also rarely called on fast breaks.

    It's the way the game is called. It's mostly called (if ever) on drives to the hoop when the defense set. They cracked down earlier in the year on feet shuffling/driving to hoop before taking your first dribble but as most NBA rule "additions", they crack down on every little case to start the year and then only call the blatant ones as the year goes on to try and get it out of the players system.
     
  5. SienaSaints

    SienaSaints Well-Known Member

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    NFL refs blow calls also, quite frequently actually. What's your point?
     
  6. nyjunc

    nyjunc 2008 TGG Bryan Cox "Most Argumentative" Award Winn

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    There are many more examples:grin:
     
  7. HackettSuxTNG

    HackettSuxTNG Well-Known Member

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    It's not just the referees. The Referees, crowd, and announcers all missed the call. The NBA is a league where enforcement of fundamental rules is so lax, that it has become an accepted practice.
     
  8. displacedfan

    displacedfan Well-Known Member

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    Yeah agreed.

    As long as the refs consistently don't call something, it's understood as you said that everyone is lax about it. The problem is when they inconsistently call something, then fans, announcers, etc starting getting irritated. Block/charge is probably the best example of this in both NBA and college basketball.
     
  9. phubbadaman

    phubbadaman Well-Known Member

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    The whole "superstars get treated differently" is the best example of this and it shows with Wade not getting called for traveling there.

    A charge is a charge, a travel is a travel, doesn't matter if you are best player on team or last off the bench.
     
  10. TommyJ

    TommyJ Well-Known Member

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    for me, the NBA has sucked for about 13 years now, it has just simply lost its luster. give me the 80's with magic and bird, or the knicks -bulls boxing matches of the 90's. it just sucks the sweat off a yaks balls now, that's just me though.
     
  11. TheCoolerGlennFoley

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