the game evolves, as do the rules. how many times has the offside rule changed?
What? Thats got nothing to do with the rules. It’s a point about the fact that travelling rule has not been applied in the NBA for near 30 years.
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really?
NBA President of League Operations Byron Spruell issued a comment on the rule changes:
“One of the most misunderstood rules in our game is how traveling is interpreted and appropriately called,” Spruell said. “Revising the language of certain areas of the rule is part of our three-pronged approach to address the uncertainty around traveling. This approach also includes an enforcement plan to make traveling a point of emphasis for our officiating staff, along with an aggressive education plan to increase understanding of the rule by players, coaches, media and fans.”
Spruell appeared on ESPN’s The Jump in October 2019 to further elaborate on the rule change. The crew talks about traveling at the four-minute mark in the video above.
While switching a pivot foot is an easy traveling call, the gather is the basis of this contentious rule. The second step may seem like an extra step, but as long as it’s after a gather, it’s within the rule book’s confines.
So, in 2019 the league felt uncertainty over the rule and lack of enforcement of it required them to address it with clarification and to make enforcing it an actual point of emphasis. You know, because refs had essentially just been overlooking it for years because everyone did it.
not really getting your point here?
NBA players have long got away with travelling with refs largely overlooking it for at least the last 25 years.
yep. All of them. the whole league.
Again… I’m missing your point here. If it’s consistent across the league and the league commissioner ackowledges it so far as to make adjustments to the way the rule is written (and interpreted by the game officials), then what’s the issue?
Lol to all the get off my lawn/cloud shouters in the thread. Nba is great. The amount is talent in the league right now crazy. Even the bad teams have good players. Even Houston, the worst team in the league (and the one i happen to support lol), has a player that would surprise no one if he won the scoring title in a few years (jalen green). He might be terrible on D, but he’s working on it (hopefully). There are almost no teams without a couple pieces. MUCH better than late 90s early 2000s.
Plus, they’ve taken steps to eliminate intentional fouling, made it impossible for opposing teams to just pack the paint, the game is way more open and there is much more scoring. 90s basketball if score reached 100 it was a feat.
And traveling… sound like Americans complaining about the not understood offsides rule or anyone complaining about what is or what is not a hand ball. You know it when you see it.
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I’ve been watching The Last Dance. I was thinking, how do you imagine a personality like Rodman would be perceived in the modern day?
I’m a relative newcomer to NBA, so I don’t know much about the machismo culture of the game then compared to now, but the 90s more broadly I remember as a time when “otherness” was somewhat prevalent in the mainstream counterculture, with things like WWF or Marilyn Manson, but without any genuine weight behind it.
Nowadays, any kind of gender fluidity has become such a dog whistle for the right, I wonder if Rodman would be seen as more of a “political” figure than he was in the 90s, where it seems like he was regarded as a sort of funny, harmless sideshow.
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I don’t think so. Rodman was a lightening rod for criticism throughout his career and he just kind of did his own thing regardless. It wasn’t just the cartoonishness of his latter career, but early in his career was subject to quite a lot of racist abuse with him being the text book example of what racists don’t like about black men - big, violent and scary. In short, a thug. Does that explain why he turned himself into a cartoon character? Maybe, but while he might have played with it and played on the media interest in his unusualness he never really engaged with it in a political way that tends to required for something to kick off beyond a single news cycle the way it did with someone like Kapernick
My missus is working at Burlington (which is, from what I gather, like TK Max in American).
She asked me if I like Siakem, because they got a shipment of Sixers jerseys with his name on the back.
I’m assuming they mixed up their Cameroonians, and sent their mistakes to this shantytown on the NY/Ontario border.
I’m tempted to buy one, for the laugh, though I’d rather a Sixers jersey with Matip on the back.
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Pascal Siakim is a quality player last time I remember
Watching Nets at Nuggets and during a timeout the “entertainment” is a group of old ladies called the Sizzlin’ Seniors?!
Atlanta spreading their cheeks really wide for these pricks.
Marcus Smart’s hair isn’t even naturally green. He fucking dyes it, the prick.
6ers in 7.
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What is the context?
There’s an ongoing dispute between Harden and Morey. Harden picked up his option in June, but he’s claiming Morey lied to him, either over a trade or a contract. Now it looks like the NBA have launched an investigation. Morey seems to expect Harden to report for training camp, while Harden is making vague threats about how he can “make life very difficult” for the Sixers.
I’d have liked to see the Sixers run it back under Nurse, but the way Harden and Embiid performed in the playoffs, and now all this drama, I don’t mind if they both leave.
Embiid has earned more good will than that, and he was carrying an injury, but throwing his teammates under the bus after Boston was gross.
Tear it down and rebuild around Maxey.
