National Basketball Association - 2022/23 Season (Part 1)

They say she’s just a friend, they say she’s just a friend :notes: :notes:

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What a fucking awesome dude.

Yeah, great story and dude. I am not very happy that this has me questioning my rooting against Chris Paul though.

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The Mavericks and Stars will be playing Game 7s at the same time tonight.

Has that ever happened before?

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I don’t know, but I’m ready for Seven Sunday.

I know it has never happened in Dallas before,

NHL thread was on the case:

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https://twitter.com/KeithSmithNBA/status/1525896849118437377?s=20&t=kvsKIlloDMRTmBTHyB2yCg

Wish Middleton could play. Game should be epic regardless.

I guess we’re getting a very friendly Bucks whistle today.

You gotta be getting. He was in position and Giannis just nailed him. Like do you not realize how strong Giannis is?

On that Lopez three, Giannis does the same push off they just whistled Grant Williams for. Absolutely awful. Cs have no chance like this.

Boston has been flopping/playing for fouls all series. As someone who used to (have) to root for Kyle Lowry I kind of respect it, but it’s not great

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The refs legit told celtics coach they will only call Giannis offensive fouls if their players fall down lol. Not sure what else you want them to do when he initiates contact and knocks players out of his way.

He legit lowers his shoulder and hits a guy in the chest he has like 60 pounds on lol.

Udoka flat out said the refs said they aren’t going to call offensive charges if the defender doesn’t end up on the ground. There’d be less flops if you can stay on your feet and still draw the charge.

I’m sure you guys both feel the same way about soccer players diving.

I get that Giannis is hard to ref. Totally get it - he creates tons of contact and defenders maul him like crazy. It’s difficult, goes both ways. But if you reward a guy for flopping every time Giannis nudges him - and it was just a little bump, even though Giannis is clearly a brick hous - Giannis is going to play ten minutes a game. Same goes for offensive fouls on anyone. The way NBA players fall from any contact, you’d think they were all the strongest and weakest people on Earth.

(the two or three offensive fouls he got called for last game were totally legit - he has to watch the unnecessary, dumb charges)

Ok so Giannis can be as physical as he wants throwing elbows and lowering his shoulder and smashing into them to create space but unless they try their hardest to stay up and still foul it shouldn’t be a foul? That’s silly.

If Refs actually called regular offensive fouls on Giannis guys wouldn’t have to resort to this, but he gets the most favorable whistle in the league so you have to make it as obvious as possible he’s bulldozing people to get to the rim.

White looks like he’s flinging it not shooting it. It seems like Brown scores every time he thrusts to the hole yet they are doing that too often.

Giannis has legitimate offensive fouls, but Boston is also trying to draw extra ones because without Giannis they are absolutely fucked.

Looks like a pretty hard hit from someone strong as fuck. That is not a lil nudge.

It’s 100% an offensive foul and it would literally never be called unless grant falls.

I don’t like flopping but if refs refuse to call it without someone falling then you need to fall. If refs called Giannis legit they wouldn’t need to flop but they let him get away with more than anyone I’ve ever seen