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HighEyeCue:
--- Quote from: Sccit on July 03, 2026, 08:19:33 AM ---naah nothing wrong with free throws.. u tryna change the game the way it's always been played
get rid of the excessive replays and allow more contact (hand checking needs to come back) so that not everything is a foul if u want more fluidity
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knowing Adam Silver he'll come up with something but it won't be anything good
TraceOneInfinite:
--- Quote from: Sccit on July 03, 2026, 08:19:33 AM ---naah nothing wrong with free throws.. u tryna change the game the way it's always been played
get rid of the excessive replays and allow more contact (hand checking needs to come back) so that not everything is a foul if u want more fluidity
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As a side note — it's an extremely difficult game to call — going back to the 80's and 90's. I've umpired baseball and refereed basketball—so I'm always easy on the refs cause I know how hard it is.
It's funny in life when God gives you the best right away and then you never see it again. It's sort of like beginners luck type of deal. I had that in basketball. When I was in jr. High the 8th grade team I was on, got to referee the 7th grade intermerels. And the guy training us was just some regular gym coach — and still to this day he gave the best explanation of refereeing basketball that I've ever heard — and I never heard it since either. He broke down this whole philosophy called "advantage/disadvantage" and then gave us specific game situations and would explain in a way like "yeah, so you could say it's a foul, but did it effect the game and cause a disadvantage to the other team?"
Same thing happened to me in teaching. My first teaching job was in Indonesia and they sent me in randomly to observe another teacher that happened to be teaching at that time. She was just like some regular Indonesia young lady — and it was spectacular. I just thought like maybe that's how it was.... But then I never saw any better teacher again, and never saw her, or that class again.
It's only years later you realize, "damn, I got the best on the first day."
Same thing in Kuwait, would you believe my first night out on the main Marina square there was a rap battle?!? I thought, "oh, cool, I got to come back to this spot, they do live rap battles here." And then I never saw or heard of it again in Kuwait, lol
HighEyeCue:
--- Quote from: TraceOneInfinite on July 03, 2026, 02:27:11 PM ---As a side note — it's an extremely difficult game to call — going back to the 80's and 90's. I've umpired baseball and refereed basketball—so I'm always easy on the refs cause I know how hard it is.
It's funny in life when God gives you the best right away and then you never see it again. It's sort of like beginners luck type of deal. I had that in basketball. When I was in jr. High the 8th grade team I was on, got to referee the 7th grade intermerels. And the guy training us was just some regular gym coach — and still to this day he gave the best explanation of refereeing basketball that I've ever heard — and I never heard it since either. He broke down this whole philosophy called "advantage/disadvantage" and then gave us specific game situations and would explain in a way like "yeah, so you could say it's a foul, but did it effect the game and cause a disadvantage to the other team?"
Same thing happened to me in teaching. My first teaching job was in Indonesia and they sent me in randomly to observe another teacher that happened to be teaching at that time. She was just like some regular Indonesia young lady — and it was spectacular. I just thought like maybe that's how it was.... But then I never saw any better teacher again, and never saw her, or that class again.
It's only years later you realize, "damn, I got the best on the first day."
Same thing in Kuwait, would you believe my first night out on the main Marina square there was a rap battle?!? I thought, "oh, cool, I got to come back to this spot, they do live rap battles here." And then I never saw or heard of it again in Kuwait, lol
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yeah the refs get a bad rap...its very easy to use replay and watch video of the play over and over than it is to make a quick call in real time
I prefer the human element to it, I wish they would get ride of replay all together
HighEyeCue:
https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/49294892/agent-donovan-mitchell-reaches-new-4-year-deal-cavs
this is ridiculous money for a barely 6'2 guard
I remember wanting this guy on the Knicks, it turns out we didn't need him 8)
Sccit:
--- Quote from: HighEyeCue on July 07, 2026, 08:28:10 AM ---https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/49294892/agent-donovan-mitchell-reaches-new-4-year-deal-cavs
this is ridiculous money for a barely 6'2 guard
I remember wanting this guy on the Knicks, it turns out we didn't need him 8)
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mitchell is good .. that's the price u pay for a star player nowadays .. insane
i guess brunson gave the league confidence that undersized guards can get it done
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