Around the NBA (and other Sports), 2023-24, Part 4: Son of daughter of nephew of Around the NBA thread

[BRUNiNHO91]

My question for that was that a foul or not crowd.. Does that call happen in o k c??

Its a foul. Clear as day.

I think clear as day is debatable

That’s probably a jumpball or clean block 9/10 in the regular season.

That’s almost the exact same play they gave Buddy Hield a clean block on Jaylen this year, even though dude hit him in the head first and ball after. SGA got ball first arm after.

[Triple7]

It is what it is, guys.

OKC is out of the playoffs and all SGA can do now is watch Jayson Tatum play.

And CoY Daignault is 0-2 with Isaiah Joe as a starter.

Exactly!
Not unless they lost significant money over that, that i can understand lol.

[Fierce1]

The fact that people accept it as a foul is NBA conditioning.

They foul doesn't belong in the NBA.

That's why I keep telling everybody, if we want real basketball, watch the Olympics.

We all know the NBA is sports entertainment.

Back in 1998, MJ clearly pushed Bryon Russell and it wasn't called an offensive foul.

After that incident, I started to accept the NBA for what it is.

and miss all that iconic shot???
Lol.

True.

That was an iconic shot indeed.

[Triple7]

Its a foul. Clear as day.

I think clear as day is debatable

That’s probably a jumpball or clean block 9/10 in the regular season.

That’s almost the exact same play they gave Buddy Hield a clean block on Jaylen this year, even though dude hit him in the head first and ball after. SGA got ball first arm after.

He still hit the arm before the shot.
That JB shot was also a foul as well. The refs and nba **** us up bug time that play.

[Fierce1]

This is nothing new.

Can't remember a team this young, with so little to no playoff experience, make the conference finals.

The NBA will really make you pay your dues before they let you play with the big boys.

[Fierce1]

Luck also had a lot to do with this Mavs win.

Luka had nowhere to go and almost lost the ball, before it went to PJ.

Sometimes the ball bounces in your favor.

[The Corey's]

This is nothing new.

Can't remember a team this young, with so little to no playoff experience, make the conference finals.

The NBA will really make you pay your dues before they let you play with the big boys.

This sounds a lot like a take that admits the league is rigged.

[shackles10]

So OKC is yes joke now?

ESPN: "Bright future. Years ahead of their progression. Needs another veteran star alongside SGA. COY superb job developing these guys blah blah blah."

I hope they shorten all that up and just say OKC is no joke.

[playa-hater]

If Ben Simmon errr Josh Giddey could have scored more than 2 points Dallas goes to OKC for game.7..

[keevsnick1]

Its a foul. Clear as day.

I think clear as day is debatable

That’s probably a jumpball or clean block 9/10 in the regular season.

That’s almost the exact same play they gave Buddy Hield a clean block on Jaylen this year, even though dude hit him in the head first and ball after. SGA got ball first arm after.

They got the Jaylen Brown one wrong; they got this one right. In both situations the defenders hits the ball first, but in both situations the offensive player retains control of the ball and gets a clean shot off during which he is fouled by the defender.

If the offensive player lost control of the ball on the block then the arm/head contact would be incidental, but they did not, they were still shooting.

[shackles10]

Read on Twitter

Sam Presti, NOT my EotY.

Didn’t realize these connections so great Tweets. Mavs have been roasted for moves around Luka for awhile actually cleaned up a lot of previous mistakes while also making a Finals run. Usually a team that is cleaning up roster mistakes (Bertans, Grant) has to take a step back by giving up assets to do it. Impressive, but doesn’t mean I still wouldn’t love to play them in the Finals out of the 3 teams left in the West.

[Fierce1]

This is nothing new.

Can't remember a team this young, with so little to no playoff experience, make the conference finals.

The NBA will really make you pay your dues before they let you play with the big boys.

This sounds a lot like a take that admits the league is rigged.

It's not totally rigged.

Just semi-rigged.

[Fierce1]

If Ben Simmon errr Josh Giddey could have scored more than 2 points Dallas goes to OKC for game.7..

Does Ben Simmons like 16-year old girls too?

[Fierce1]

I don't think it's fair to compare Giddey to Ben Simmons.

Ben Simmons is totally garbage when it comes to shooting.

I think Giddey just has the misfortune of having a bad stretch of shooting the ball.

Even the FTs are not close as Giddey is a good FT shooter.

But Isaiah Joe did a good job filling in for Giddey in this game.

So it's really not fair to put this loss on Giddey.

[playa-hater]

Also a bit surprising that there's some push back about coach D of OKC getting the COTY.. I mean he did an incredible job even in the playoffs with just one star while many teams Have 2 or more..

shame shame shame.

clearly some of you are related to Joe..

[playa-hater]

Read on Twitter

Sam Presti, NOT my EotY.

Didn’t realize these connections so great Tweets. Mavs have been roasted for moves around Luka for awhile actually cleaned up a lot of previous mistakes while also making a Finals run. Usually a team that is cleaning up roster mistakes (Bertans, Grant) has to take a step back by giving up assets to do it. Impressive, but doesn’t mean I still wouldn’t love to play them in the Finals out of the 3 teams left in the West.

Presti = Ainge.. Made some great moves and then made a U-turn..

The difference is Presti still has a really big war chest..

[Fierce1]

Also a bit surprising that there's some push back about coach D of OKC getting the COTY.. I mean he did an incredible job even in the playoffs with just one star while many teams Have 2 or more..

shame shame shame.

clearly some of you are related to Joe..

I'm sensing a double standard here.

You keep defending Daignault when he clearly made crucial mistakes in this series.

If that's the standard then we can also say you're related to Daignault.

[Fierce1]

Using that timeout to challenge SGA's foul on PJ was really a panic move by Daigneault.

There was 2.5 seconds left.

Having a timeout would have allowed OKC to setup one more play for the game winning shot.

But since OKC didn't have a timeout left, J-Will had to shoot the ball from more than half court.

[playa-hater]

While I am not as big of a Luke Kornet fan as some on here, It wouldn't surprise me if OKC goes after Luke.. I think it would be a good fit for both..

[_Und3r][D4wg_]

• PJ goes up for a three
• SGA gets a hand on the ball but fails to dislodge it
• Not a jump-ball since PJ still has solo possession
• Not a completed block, since PJ can still finish the shot in the same motion
• Ergo, still a live-ball possession up to this point
• On the way down, SGA's hand makes contact with PJ's arm
• PJ completes his 3-pt attempt before he lands on the floor
• Had there been no whistle, high probability that Kyrie's putback still would've ended OKC

Not easy for the ref(s) to process everything that happened within 1sec to make a snap judgment, but the benefit of slowmo replay appears to validate the call.

Luka vs Nikola (or Ant; tbd)... If Mavs miraculously depose the defending champs (or MIN), then it's Kyrie vs Boston... Compelling storylines and potential for high drama & rollercoaster basketball.