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wes_mantooth

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Jun 17, 2010 10:11 PM
To me, it getting harder and harder to watch a full game. Stern needs to fire nearly every official and institute some rules to make it watchable. I hate that there isn't a 5 second rule....nothing more exciting than watching a guy stand there pivoting for 15 seconds until the shot clock runs out.

Are you fine with how the NBA game is played or are there things you would like to have changed?
Jun 17, 2010 10:11pm
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Jun 17, 2010 10:12 PM
Refs in the Not Basketball Anymore league are worse than the ones who do the fake wrestling.
Jun 17, 2010 10:12pm
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Jun 17, 2010 10:12 PM
The 5 second rule will never be instituted.

But I would like to see some DRASTIC changes.

One....get rid of the "you're allowed 2 steps before a dribble" rule. I don't care about traveling, it has NEVER been called in the League, but that "new rule" is a joke.
Jun 17, 2010 10:12pm
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Jun 17, 2010 10:14 PM
Also, I hate that a player can pump fake...get a guy in the air, jump sideways into him....and still get the call. I am a bit of a purist...that is why I love college and high school basketball.
Jun 17, 2010 10:14pm
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Jun 17, 2010 10:14 PM
The refs are bad. I'm not saying the Lakers are the only team that does this, but flailing like crazy on a shot SHOULD NEVER warrant a foul. Fisher and Kobe do this every damn time they throw up a junk shot and they should be thrown out of the game for doing so.
Jun 17, 2010 10:14pm
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Jun 17, 2010 10:16 PM
Yeah and so does LeBron, but yet you never mention him.
Jun 17, 2010 10:16pm
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Jun 17, 2010 10:17 PM
wildcats20;393366 wrote:Yeah and so does LeBron, but yet you never mention him.

Honestly, they all do it...and why not??...they get the call. I don't have a problem with the players...it is the rules that allow this horseshit that is the problem.
Jun 17, 2010 10:17pm
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Jun 17, 2010 10:17 PM
The refs are bad. The rules aren't enforced and guys dribble the air out of the basketball. I watch some of the playoff games, but I prefer college basketball to the NBA
Jun 17, 2010 10:17pm
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Jun 17, 2010 10:22 PM
flailing is funny because some of THE best athletes in the world don't know the ball isn't in their hands anymore and throw their arms up.....like a running back continuing running after they have already fumbled.
Jun 17, 2010 10:22pm
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Jun 17, 2010 10:23 PM
wildcats20;393366 wrote:Yeah and so does LeBron, but yet you never mention him.

He's never done it once in his career. Thanks for playing.
Jun 17, 2010 10:23pm
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Jun 17, 2010 10:24 PM
Ok...
Jun 17, 2010 10:24pm
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Jun 17, 2010 10:26 PM
wildcats20;393383 wrote:Ok...

You better hope your boy doesn't chuck his team out of another critical game. I mean I know he's the closer, the black mamba, and the MVP, but DAMN make a shot.
Jun 17, 2010 10:26pm
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Jun 17, 2010 10:27 PM
This is why I can not watch but a few plays at a time in any game.
Jun 17, 2010 10:27pm
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Jun 17, 2010 10:28 PM
He's still playing isn't he??

Your dude chucked his team out of the playoffs by not showing up because he was too worried about who his mom was fuckin'
Jun 17, 2010 10:28pm
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Jun 17, 2010 10:30 PM
lol...how the fuck did you guys manage to turn this into a Lebron/Kobe thread???!!!
Jun 17, 2010 10:30pm
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Jun 17, 2010 10:31 PM
Because your dude sleeper decided to call out Kobe and Fish and not mention that Bron does the same shit.
Jun 17, 2010 10:31pm
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Jun 17, 2010 10:32 PM
It was a rhetorical question....lmao
Jun 17, 2010 10:32pm
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Jun 17, 2010 10:32 PM
I know
Jun 17, 2010 10:32pm
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Jun 17, 2010 10:34 PM
Anyhow, I just don't understand how guys like Joey Crawford and old man Bevetta(sp?) are allowed to do these games. It isn't like any fanbase thinks that they are any good and it isn't like the players respect them.
Jun 17, 2010 10:34pm
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Jun 17, 2010 10:40 PM
Joey Crawford is a joke. I hate him. He has to be the worst referee in the game. He must have naked pictures of Dave Stern
Jun 17, 2010 10:40pm
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Jun 17, 2010 10:44 PM
The NBA refs are a joke I have always said this.

(LAKERS ARE NOT LOSING BECAUSE OF THE REFS THEY ARE LOSING BECAUSE BOSTON IS PLAYING 10 TIMES BETTER THAN THEY ARE)
Jun 17, 2010 10:44pm
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Jun 17, 2010 10:45 PM
newarkcatholicfan;393355 wrote:Refs in the Not Basketball Anymore league are worse than the ones who do the fake wrestling.

LOL, I've done the latter...it is actually quite hectic and actually takes knowledge of what is going on.

Sad thing is, both high school and college level basketball are slowly changing to the same boring ass isolation style game.
Jun 17, 2010 10:45pm