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Dewshbag41 t1_jdjkm3m wrote

Reply to comment by Man_ofscience in Monty Williams draws $20,000 fine for criticizing referees. by PrincessBananas85

I don't think Refs should be in press conferences after every game, but after a series sure.

They definitely owe the public and the players a post season debrief going over the biggest controversies of the year for sure.

Last thing we need is more divas in the NBA and giving the refs the spotlight is a way to turn the entirety of the sport into a laughing stock.

Basketball is a unique sport, it's unique in the sense that if someone entered the sport that absolutely dominated everyone, the sport would die. And I mean absolutely dominate, not like the bs "domination" that gets thrown around these days when one guy makes 70% from behind the line.

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Man_ofscience t1_jdjn0r5 wrote

Isn’t the NBA kind of a laughing stock anyway? The amount of blatant missed calls, dives, the lack of effort during the regular season/halfway through the playoffs. The sport isn’t enjoyable until the semifinals of the playoffs. I think sport in general needs more transparency across the board

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pokeroots t1_jdk9db0 wrote

every time I watch the NBA I spot multiple double dribbles and travels that don't get called in 5 minutes and turn it off

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Man_ofscience t1_jdkow1i wrote

Anytime someone brings up the nba it always brings me back to Westbrook taking 5 steps without dribbling. No call

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braize6 t1_jdlk2qv wrote

Which one? The only one I can think of that stands out, was when Westbrook took the inbound and started walking with it. Which he definitely did get called for

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ShadyCrow t1_jdkkv67 wrote

> Basketball is a unique sport, it's unique in the sense that if someone entered the sport that absolutely dominated everyone, the sport would die.

What do you mean here? How is that different than if it happened in another sport?

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Dewshbag41 t1_jdkmhqv wrote

Basketball depends on it's players to be dramatic and marketable. If a modern day Wilt Chamberlain showed up all the other basketball players would rally against him and probably quit, if the league didn't find a way to exile that player.

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ShadyCrow t1_jdkwt5t wrote

What are you talking about? Shaq was a force like that. Lebron is a much better player and more successful and dominant than Wilt.

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Dewshbag41 t1_jdkxg21 wrote

No okay see this is that bs dominance I was talking about.

I mean like if a superhero came down and started playing sports, we would watch them play pretty much any sport other than basketball because it would be total bullshit and noone would want to watch it. Kinda like how it is now where noone plays defense and guys like Ja Morant just score, gain notoriety, and then try to sell themselves outside of the sport moreso than in it.

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ShadyCrow t1_jdl0a6l wrote

> No okay see this is that bs dominance I was talking about.

So what's real dominance, then? Not winning as many games?

> Kinda like how it is now where noone plays defense

Haha. NBA defense has never been better than it is right now. All the rules favor the offense and almost every player can shoot. The schemes are far more complex than they were 20 years ago. You clearly don't like the game and don't know what you're talking about.

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Dewshbag41 t1_jdmbmts wrote

See but this is the bs thing I'm talking about, you guys say defence has never been better yet scores have never been higher and this is the decade of basketball where guys will literally just let people score and give 0 effort into block shots or stealing balls.

I think you guys know what your talking about but you just make shit up for some dumb reason. I played basketball more than any other sport in my youth, I know bad defense and lazy play when I see it.

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