#focus#mustwin#playoffs#drama? : 2013 NBA playoffs

I don't want to hear about flopping again until magicians rob a bank.

total chaos would ensue w/o their efforts.

gah I forgot that this works for the other thing too, since NBA wouldn't exist w/o it

if everybody took the energy they directed toward complaining abt flopping and instead complained about the stupid charge/block rule, the game would be much better

Which rule?

the charge/block rule is fine, refs just started calling too many of them charges for some reason

charge call when ballhandler has already passed is lame. but people love to complain, let's not pretend there's a finite amount of complaining energy out there. flopping as obv struck a nerve amongst many people and either pointing to other more "important" things or saying it doesn't really bother you, yeah ok your position is noted doesn't mean the rest of us have to think same way.

The rule I would like to see changed is where a defender jumps straight up to block a shot, the shooter sees the guy off his feet and jumps into him, and somehow that's a foul on the defender.

they called that pretty evenly in the heat/pacers series. So rare that the person defending ACTUALLY stays vertical, though. They usually always bend the arms down. Takes a lot of self control really.

they actually did change that rule a few years back (or at least added wording to make it explicitly an offensive foul or a non-call), it just isn't called correctly nearly often enough.

I think poly is talking about jump shooters, spottie about drivers?

Well, I'm talking about a shooter faking a jump shot, and then driving into the defender when he's in the air.

i was talking about drivers yes

agree with poly

also the sweep through foul is bogus still, even though its better that its a non shooting foul now.

maybe we need a gripe about rules / rule ideas thread?

iirc this exists but i cant recall its title

breaking lol hawks Report: Hawks Tampering With CP3, Howard
Hawks mentioned Chris Paul and Dwight Howard in a letter to potential ticket buyers, possibly violating the NBA's tampering Policy.

ways to make the NBA more exciting

maybe?

ya that must be it

https://twitter.com/NYDNInterNets/status/341726625752301568

Damn! I'm old. Still one of the best games ever created.

how many people don't get the difference between selling contact and an actual flop

Contact had decent box office gross. Far from a flop imo

ahhhh

well done

How good was the 37.1 local TV rating for Game 7 of Heat-Pacers – equaling 37.1 percent of Dade/Broward homes with TV sets? Not only did it smash the local rating for Game 7 of the Heat-Celtics Eastern finals last June (a 25.0), but it wasn’t far off from CBS-4’s 40.7 rating for this year’s Super Bowl.

By contrast, the rating was much smaller in Indianapolis for Monday's game (a 21.9). Nationally, the game was seen in 7.1 percent of U.S. homes - the most watched NBA game ever on TNT.

serious question: why do people in indianapolis not care about the pacers? they were bottom 11 in attendance this year

I have a suspicion of Malace + racists

no "superstar" to latch on to?

not the hoosiers

not the colts also

no "superstar" to latch on to?

― Poster The Sheeple (Spottie_Ottie_Dope), Wednesday, June 5, 2013 11:34 AM (17 minutes ago) Bookmark

well i guess next season will be the definitive judgement on this theory

maybe if Psycho T got a push

This is a pretty amazing graphic. The Pop/Buford NBA family tree:

http://assets.sbnation.com/assets/2722369/Popovich-Buford-Tree.jpg

Awesome

http://blog.mysanantonio.com/spursnation/2013/06/03/pops-air-force-academy-yearbook/

guys, finals thread

BALLET IS LIFE - spurs vs heat, NBA finals 2013 thread