Agreed. Been watching the NBA for 40 years (and officiated a bit of high school hoops) and the NBA’s (actually somewhat involved) rules of “defensive position” have never been applied literally. The offensive player is heavily favored in actual calls of actual plays, especially with star scorers. Always bugged me. I…

I don’t think it takes over from Webber. Webber’s was the final game, period, of the NCAA season. JR certainly has more chances to fuck everything up because the play didn’t decide the Finals in its entirety, just Game 1.

McGee’s is more of a physical miscue, while Smith’s was purely mental. Physical mistakes seem to be more forgivable—or at least more forgiven (Bill Buckner notwithstanding). I think Smith’s mistake take the title from Chris Webber’s timeout as the most significant mental error in basketball history and, given the…

The first time I’ve seen an inanimate basketball rim crack the stat sheet.

Yeah, but he knew the score, his team was leading, it was only the third quarter, and WHY DIDN’T J.R. JUST THROW IT TO LEBRON LIKE HE’S SUPPOSED TO?!?!

She’s dead and it’s taking a while to find, coerce and modify another woman to take her place.

^^^^^

Not from Boston. Or a Celtics fan.

This album has the same feel as TLOP without any of the highs from that album. I’m very underwhelmed.

Kanye West is rapping* “sympathetically” about Russell Simmons.

This. If that is a charge, then Lebron would foul out every game.

Correct and correct. Burneko’s contention that LeBron was just hanging out in the space when Durant crashed into him is insane. When Durant starts to drive, LeBron is 1) outside the paint and 2) below the restricted area. He steps five feet into the lane to get in front on him. It has nothing to do with any leaning…

“If you’re trying to take a charge in the final minute of the goddamn NBA Finals, you deserve to have JR Smith take a shit on your dreams.”

It boggles my mind that anyone can say that should have been called a charge with a straight face.

You get it. They need to stop tailoring the officiating to the players. It’s ugly and keeps moving further and further from what the game is supposed to be played like.

I agree that’s a block, not a charge. Looking at the video, when Durant is attacking the hoop going around Green, by the time he’s at the free throw line (1 step away from leaving the floor) Lebron is still at the edge of the key, and in that last step slides all the way over to the middle of the key right in front of…

This. Its’ interesting how Bron sliding into a spot is now “set in defensive position.” His feet moving during and through contact pretty much blows the whole charge.

I get that Lebron’s left foot was planted *just* before Durant went up for the layup but... the entire rest of his body was moving. I know the rules don’t mandate you be stock still waiting with hands over dick-and-balls in order to draw a charge but, uh, I don’t think you establish legal guarding position just by…

The GTV, the 2002ti, even things like the Rover 2000TC and the Cortina GT (or, <gasp> the Datsun 510) brought together a little bit more power and a little bit more handling than anyone was used to in the late 60s. Ina perverse way, maybe the fact that it took 16+ seconds to travel a 1/4 mile meant that a driver had…

Yeah what kind of complete car hating douche bag would want to drive a sexy Italian sports car?