Official Michael Jordan Joins NBA on NBC Staff Thread

[Sccit]

another trade

and he was the Celtics best player by far last year

https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/49241843/sources-celtics-sending-brown-76ers-george-picks

retarded



we got walker kessler tho



all aryan team in full effect lol

[HighEyeCue]

retarded



we got walker kessler tho



all aryan team in full effect lol

at least he's got some size

[Sccit]

at least he's got some size

walker kessler is an absolute baller

make no mistake

[HighEyeCue]

https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/49249828/one-free-throw-rule-embedded-ball-tech-test-set-summer-league

interesting...so you get one free throw instead of 1, 2 or 3 but it counts for the same amount of points it would have

I'm not really a fan of gimmicky new rules but there has to be a way to shorten the game especially playoff games damn near lasting 3 hours

Id personally just get rid of replay

[Sccit]

https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/49249828/one-free-throw-rule-embedded-ball-tech-test-set-summer-league

interesting...so you get one free throw instead of 1, 2 or 3 but it counts for the same amount of points it would have

I'm not really a fan of gimmicky new rules but there has to be a way to shorten the game especially playoff games damn near lasting 3 hours

Id personally just get rid of replay

retarded

[TraceOneInfinite]

https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/49249828/one-free-throw-rule-embedded-ball-tech-test-set-summer-league

interesting...so you get one free throw instead of 1, 2 or 3 but it counts for the same amount of points it would have

I'm not really a fan of gimmicky new rules but there has to be a way to shorten the game especially playoff games damn near lasting 3 hours

Id personally just get rid of replay

Phil Jackson said something in a recent interview about there being too much start and stop in these days of the NBA and that the game was meant to be a fluid game and not start and stop

[HighEyeCue]

Phil Jackson said something in a recent interview about there being too much start and stop in these days of the NBA and that the game was meant to be a fluid game and not start and stop

Phil knows ball

[TraceOneInfinite]

Phil knows ball

Yeah, he was taking it back to like James Naismith and how the game was invented and meant to be played.

...makes sense to me that they would need to find a way to keep it more fluid.  Because, who wants foul shots?? 

...my suggestion is that once a team gets in the penalty they could just automatically award the points and keep playing. 

[HighEyeCue]

Yeah, he was taking it back to like James Naismith and how the game was invented and meant to be played.

...makes sense to me that they would need to find a way to keep it more fluid.  Because, who wants foul shots?? 

...my suggestion is that once a team gets in the penalty they could just automatically award the points and keep playing.

that's not a bad idea actually...It would certainly speed up the game

the start and stop aspect is definitely a problem...this would certainly eliminate the intentional fouling after the team is in the penalty

[Sccit]

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

[HighEyeCue]

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

knowing Adam Silver he'll come up with something but it won't be anything good

[TraceOneInfinite]

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

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]

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

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