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> No okay see this is that bs dominance I was talking about.

So what's real dominance, then? Not winning as many games?

> Kinda like how it is now where noone plays defense

Haha. NBA defense has never been better than it is right now. All the rules favor the offense and almost every player can shoot. The schemes are far more complex than they were 20 years ago. You clearly don't like the game and don't know what you're talking about.

Softest refs in any sport

Probably taking the most money too

we need 90s era back for nba

No okay see this is that bs dominance I was talking about.

I mean like if a superhero came down and started playing sports, we would watch them play pretty much any sport other than basketball because it would be total bullshit and noone would want to watch it. Kinda like how it is now where noone plays defense and guys like Ja Morant just score, gain notoriety, and then try to sell themselves outside of the sport moreso than in it.

What are you talking about? Shaq was a force like that. Lebron is a much better player and more successful and dominant than Wilt.

Mike Breen said that a lot of vet refs retired in the last year. There’s a bunch of new refs. This is why.

Right! Let’s have some integrity to the game and some transparency.

>Together with complaining players and flops it makes for a miserable watching experience.

The NBA should take a page from the NHL on that. When flopping started happening in games, they put the kibosh on that real quick. I basically can't even watch soccer anymore with all the flopping, and I do not want that to happen to basketball.

Nothing is wrong with you at all! You are appreciated among my family!

>A ref should be in press conferences as well after games. They should get a voice to defend decisions as well and be asked about times in the game.

I like this idea.

That makes me way too happy. Something is obviously very wrong with me

Edit: A ref explaining themselves ruins the illusion of gambling. How do you bet on a point spread with refs admitting they can’t be bothered to rectify what they admit openly were wrong or inaccurate calls?

NBA basketball sucks, college basketball is much more entertaining. I want to go watch an NBA game in person and it was pretty much all ISO’s with no defense and people standing at the three-point line. When I went to go see a college basketball game, there’s a lot of ball movement and tough defense. I had so much more fun. I don’t wanna sound like an old head but NBA players are huge divas these days.

Can we protest both Cuban and Kidd?!

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I don't think it's team to team with the inconsistencies, it's player to player. Everyone gets officiated differently and for some reason it's just an accepted practice.

Good point. Also love your username. I’m with my family and they asked what I laughed about. I told them your username and they all approve.

Would be such a horrible thing if we had transparency in sports for once. Held everyone accountable. I think that’s integrity

Anytime someone brings up the nba it always brings me back to Westbrook taking 5 steps without dribbling. No call

Return of the wac?

They need to stop subjectively benefitting the Lakers. Historically they get the best calls. Every year

When you have that huge of a discrepancy while they are getting zero contact fouls and the Suns are getting no calls on smacks to the face. That game was fucking rigged.

It’s crazy ! The refs literally get to make terrible calls then just come out with a statement the next day like “sorry”

Giannis commits fouls that would be penalties in the NFL. 90% of the time he ends up on the free throw line because of the contact he initiates.

The league can advertise Giannis as a superstar, though, scoring 31 points a game. The majority of people don't watch games outside of their own team, so they don't realize that he is doing that while shooting 13 free throws a game.

Basketball depends on it's players to be dramatic and marketable. If a modern day Wilt Chamberlain showed up all the other basketball players would rally against him and probably quit, if the league didn't find a way to exile that player.