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CobraCommander · Post #301 » by **CobraCommander** » Sat Mar 3, 2018 4:47 am

dautjazz wrote:I wonder what he said. Boneheaded decision by Towns, you just picked up a T.

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I hope you are kidding...no way in hell this ref should keep his job after that BONEHEADED T....no one paid their money to see KAT go to the locker room...

Catchall · Post #302 » by **Catchall** » Sat Mar 3, 2018 4:47 am

Whatever Towns said, I think you give him a warning and tell him to calm down before you toss him.

Ref's got a hair trigger there.

dautjazz · Post #303 » by **dautjazz** » Sat Mar 3, 2018 4:48 am

+2number4+ wrote:These Ts are so ridiculous and soft it would make marsh mellows appear like steel bars. Unbelievable.

I agree. Unless he cursed or insulted the ref I didn't see a tech.

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Alatan · Post #304 » by **Alatan** » Sat Mar 3, 2018 4:49 am

Chandan wrote:Of all the post move highlights I've seen of KAT, there hasn't been one that wasn't an offensive foul by using his offhand.

Do they ever make that call anymore?

Yeah, he plays really physical, on the border of an offensive foul and then complains that he is fouled, every single freaking time. So annoying.

NBAFan93 · Post #305 » by **NBAFan93** » Sat Mar 3, 2018 4:49 am

Phreak50 wrote:It’s so hard to take Russell Westbrook seriously as a player that wants stats versus wanting to win.

He wasn’t stat padding at all in the game tonight. Game was close the entire time - one less rebound, one less basket, etc. could have caused his team lose the game.

iggymcfrack · Post #306 » by **iggymcfrack** » Sat Mar 3, 2018 4:50 am

Well, that’s game over. In the crazy West, this drops the Wolves from the 3 seed all the way to the 6 seed.

New standings:
1. Houston
2. Golden State
3. Portland
4. San Antonio
5. Oklahoma City
6. Minnesota
7. New Orleans
8. Denver

Pass_the_rock · Post #307 » by **Pass_the_rock** » Sat Mar 3, 2018 4:51 am

dautjazz wrote:
+2number4+ wrote:These Ts are so ridiculous and soft it would make marsh mellows appear like steel bars. Unbelievable.

I agree. Unless he cursed or insulted the ref I didn't see a tech.

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He probably told the ref that his wife tastes like honeynut cheerios.

Triples333 · Post #308 » by **Triples333** » Sat Mar 3, 2018 4:51 am

NBAFan93 wrote:
Warchant wrote:
Triples333 wrote:Only Westbrook could put up a 40/14/8 and be a -3 against the TANKING SUNS!

That should illustrate what a worthless stat it is

Yeah - I’ve seen many examples of worthless +/- stats...like Anthony Davis will have negative plus minuses sometimes in games where he had like 5 clutch rebounds to save the game along w/ 45 points, 16 rebounds, etc. while the rest of his team didn’t do anything. All it really means sometimes is that the game was very close while you were playing...

Eh. Nope. That is certainly not "all it really means", especially as the seasons progress (speaking nothing to the players we're talking about).

iggymcfrack · Post #309 » by **iggymcfrack** » Sat Mar 3, 2018 4:51 am

CobraCommander wrote:
dautjazz wrote:I wonder what he said. Boneheaded decision by Towns, you just picked up a T.

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I hope you are kidding...no way in hell this ref should keep his job after that BONEHEADED T....no one paid their money to see KAT go to the locker room...

Chill out. You don’t even know what Towns said. It could easily have been a mandatory call depending on what words he used.

Tigersrule · Post #310 » by **Tigersrule** » Sat Mar 3, 2018 4:52 am

Chandan wrote:Of all the post move highlights I've seen of KAT, there hasn't been one that wasn't an offensive foul by using his offhand.

Do they ever make that call anymore?

Literally EVERYONE in the NBA uses their off hand...I dont think he extends his arm out or anything tho so maybe that why he doesnt get called for it, but that should have been an and 1.

NBAFan93 · Post #311 » by **NBAFan93** » Sat Mar 3, 2018 4:52 am

+2number4+ wrote:
Phreak50 wrote:It’s so hard to take Russell Westbrook seriously as a player that wants stats versus wanting to win.

Which would you take less seriously, a stat-padder, a superteamer, a ring-chaser or a foul-fisher? That's your NBA right now as embodied by the current top 4 best players of the league.

This is very true...

dautjazz · Post #312 » by **dautjazz** » Sat Mar 3, 2018 4:53 am

CobraCommander wrote:
dautjazz wrote:I wonder what he said. Boneheaded decision by Towns, you just picked up a T.

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I hope you are kidding...no way in hell this ref should keep his job after that BONEHEADED T....no one paid their money to see KAT go to the locker room...

I was giving the ref the benifit of the doubt because they certainly put up with a lot of crying. Towns shouldnt have got ejected, still Towns needs to be smarter than that when playing with T already, especially so soon after the first.

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Tigersrule · Post #313 » by **Tigersrule** » Sat Mar 3, 2018 4:53 am

Wow I cannot believe the Blazers are in 3rd seed

+2number4+ · Post #314 » by **+2number4+** » Sat Mar 3, 2018 4:53 am

iggymcfrack wrote:
CobraCommander wrote:
dautjazz wrote:I wonder what he said. Boneheaded decision by Towns, you just picked up a T.

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I hope you are kidding...no way in hell this ref should keep his job after that BONEHEADED T....no one paid their money to see KAT go to the locker room...

Chill out. You don’t even know what Towns said. It could easily have been a mandatory call depending on what words he used.

We're way past 'giving these refs the benefit of the doubt'.

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Catchall · Post #315 » by **Catchall** » Sat Mar 3, 2018 4:53 am

Towns was working the ref for a while. It could have been an accumulation thing, but still, I think you can't toss him that fast, unless it was an f-bomb.

Catchall · Post #316 » by **Catchall** » Sat Mar 3, 2018 4:54 am

Gobert's having a nice game though.

KqWIN · Post #317 » by **KqWIN** » Sat Mar 3, 2018 4:56 am

Both techs were complete garbage. Let's be real here. Refs got to get over their fragile egos and stop trying to be so important.

Hikari · Post #318 » by **Hikari** » Sat Mar 3, 2018 4:56 am

MikeTheKid wrote:
dautjazz wrote:I wonder what he said. Boneheaded decision by Towns, you just picked up a T.

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That ref missed a KAT call before so he scored on Gobert, shouldve been an AND1 and he yelled to the ref "Call That" and got T'd

Bogus call

I don't think Towns should have been tossed. But gobert was vertical Towns scored it was not a foul.

+2number4+ · Post #319 » by **+2number4+** » Sat Mar 3, 2018 4:56 am

iggymcfrack wrote:Well, that’s game over. In the crazy West, this drops the Wolves from the 3 seed all the way to the 6 seed.

New standings:
1. Houston
2. Golden State
3. Portland
4. San Antonio
5. Oklahoma City
6. Minnesota
7. New Orleans
8. Denver

May go back down to 6th tomorrow if they lose to the Thunder. :lol:

NBAFan93 · Post #320 » by **NBAFan93** » Sat Mar 3, 2018 4:57 am

Triples333 wrote:
NBAFan93 wrote:
Warchant wrote:That should illustrate what a worthless stat it is

Yeah - I’ve seen many examples of worthless +/- stats...like Anthony Davis will have negative plus minuses sometimes in games where he had like 5 clutch rebounds to save the game along w/ 45 points, 16 rebounds, etc. while the rest of his team didn’t do anything. All it really means sometimes is that the game was very close while you were playing...

Eh. Nope. That is certainly not "all it really means", especially as the seasons progress (speaking nothing to the players we're talking about).

I said “sometimes”...

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