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2019-Whenever Misc. Grab Bag Thread

For any of you MLB and World Baseball Classic fans out there...the new ABS pitch tracker system sure sheds some great light on how bad some of these umpire calls really are...last night to end a game in the WBC like that was why you need that technology in that tournament and in the game in general. Imagine how bad Angel Hernandez would have really looked if that ABS system was around when he was still butchering calls back in the day...
 
CanadaCanes said:
For any of you MLB and World Baseball Classic fans out there...the new ABS pitch tracker system sure sheds some great light on how bad some of these umpire calls really are...last night to end a game in the WBC like that was why you need that technology in that tournament and in the game in general. Imagine how bad Angel Hernandez would have really looked if that ABS system was around when he was still butchering calls back in the day...
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Angel wouldn’t have lasted three weeks if they had this system when he was behind the plate. Not only was he wrong half the time he was a complete dick about it.
 
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Fayettenamcanesfan said:
Angel wouldn’t have lasted three weeks if they had this system when he was behind the plate. Not only was he wrong half the time he was a complete dick about it.
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Hernandez would have stood there and argued with no one after ABS overturned 90% of his pitch calls. That guy was an absolute joke. And this system just goes to show how hard it is to be accurate. Some say this system is terrible and needs to go away. Fine, then don't show any slow motion replays on TV or to the fans in the stadiums. If you're going to show me just how bad the call was, then I want it corrected. Take ball and strike calls completely out of the umps hands. Why even bother?
 
The NBA lost me over 20 years ago when they took travelling, walking, and double dribbling calls out of the game. You don't even have to dribble any more, it's just handball. Watching guys pick up the ball and run 7 steps on a breakaway is laughably horrible. As bad as the NBA is, the WNBA is as entertaining as watching ants on a lollipop. That has to be the most unathletic, unskilled sport in the world.
 
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The NBA lost me over 20 years ago when they took travelling, walking, and double dribbling calls out of the game. You don't even have to dribble any more, it's just handball. Watching guys pick up the ball and run 7 steps on a breakaway is laughably horrible. As bad as the NBA is, the WNBA is as entertaining as watching ants on a lollipop. That has to be the most unathletic, unskilled sport in the world.
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They are back to calling traveling/carrying more and more again. Averages about 3 a game. Giannis alone is good for 3 or 4 a game these days. They got tired of people complaining about it and made it an emphasis the last couple seasons. Still not perfect but they are at least calling it again. NBA officiating is perfection compared to the nhl. It’s the style of play that I’ve gotten tired of
 
Things that got me interested in the NBA again:
  • Wemby. That dude is freakishly great and is fun to watch. Cooper Flagg is fun to watch as well. SGA, Ant, Jokic, Luka, Giannas, Brunson, and so many other dudes that are fun to watch.
  • The Pistons are good again.
  • The Hornets are...I don't know...good? They are especially dangerous on the road. That Dookie Kon Kneupleshpellcheck is very good. How the hell didn't Duke win the championship with him and Flagg on the team?
  • Say what you will about all of the 3 point attempts, but it has opened up the floor. There is still plenty of in-the-paint action, it's just not a friggin old school bar brawl under the basket anymore and I am thankful for that. Much like the NHL getting real about hooking and interference and getting rid of the 2 line pass rule, the superstars actually have room to breathe in now and can shine. Please, let's never go back to the era of centers playing with their backs to the basket. zzzzzzzzzzzzzz
 
NoMich said:
Things that got me interested in the NBA again:
  • Wemby. That dude is freakishly great and is fun to watch. Cooper Flagg is fun to watch as well. SGA, Ant, Jokic, Luka, Giannas, Brunson, and so many other dudes that are fun to watch.
  • The Pistons are good again.
  • The Hornets are...I don't know...good? They are especially dangerous on the road. That Dookie Kon Kneupleshpellcheck is very good. How the hell didn't Duke win the championship with him and Flagg on the team?
  • Say what you will about all of the 3 point attempts, but it has opened up the floor. There is still plenty of in-the-paint action, it's just not a friggin old school bar brawl under the basket anymore and I am thankful for that. Much like the NHL getting real about hooking and interference and getting rid of the 2 line pass rule, the superstars actually have room to breathe in now and can shine. Please, let's never go back to the era of centers playing with their backs to the basket. zzzzzzzzzzzzzz
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Hornets are much better with Melo healthy for once, Kon setting records and the moose getting loose..although the moose has been struggling lately…they are fun to watch.

And Duke hasn’t won a national championship with any of the 59 one and done studs they’ve had since 2018. Hell Carolina won one more recently (by a year I think). College basketball has historically been more about team than collective talent. It’s slowly starting to turn with NIL, but Duke did better with program guys than they have with all the one and dones. Same as Kentucky

Wemby and guys his size SHOULD dominate so when they do it’s not as impressive to me. Sorry but when you are 9 feet longer than the guy you’re playing against you should dominate, if you don’t you’re either lazy or as unathletic as me at 53 with cancer. He’s like Manute Bol if Bol had knees that weren’t shredded cheese. That dude couldn’t make it up and down the court more than twice
 
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But Wemby can dribble like a guard and can score from *anywhere*, and he can dominate the paint. Besides, he looks like he could get blown out of the building just by the smallest of breezes, but he never ends up on ass from contact. It's uncanny.
 
NoMich said:
But Wemby can dribble like a guard and can score from *anywhere*, and he can dominate the paint. Besides, he looks like he could get blown out of the building just by the smallest of breezes, but he never ends up on ass from contact. It's uncanny.
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Hopefully his body holds up. Dudes his size usually don’t last long due to knee, ankle and generally 9’ long appendage disease
 
NoMich said:
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Peterson has done a great job rebuilding the hornets. They are very young and still have tons of picks from some great trades. They are setting up well for the future. Plus they went to Boston and stole Lee away who is a tremendous young coach that knows how to win a championship. Should be fun to be a hornets fan again. Only been 2 decades or so.
 
NoMich said:
Competent leadership! Just like what we have up here in Raleigh. Yay1
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There’s less of a bonus for competent front offices in the NBA than the NHL because the majority of teams are professionally run … but hoo boy, the penalty for hiring an idiotic GM or having a sensitive man-child of an owner dumb down your program is a LOT stiffer in the NBA. But yeah, Charlotte got that good decision making bounce, for sure.
 
NoMich said:
A bad draft affects an NBA team a whole harder than any other sport, that's for sure.
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Yeah, it can … but they use draft picks in that league like some sort of revolving credit account so it’s something you can recover from if you manage assets well. But missing on a high value pick or gearing up to take a big swing at the wrong draft class is a huge issue in the NBA. The way talent comes into the league is just so different in the NBA than it is in football or hockey, or even the WNBA. There’s just so few actual impact prospects in a given year that mistakes are magnified.
 
Welp, it's now officially March Madness since High Point University has upset Wisconsin. HPU's Chase Johnston (uniform number? 99, of course) made his very first 2 point basket of the season today. Before today, it was 68 3 pointers made. LOL
 
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NoMich said:
Welp, it's now officially March Madness now that High Point University has upset Wisconsin. HPU's Chase Johnston (uniform number? 99, of course) made his very first 2 point basket of the season today. Before today, it was 68 3 pointers made. LOL
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The annual 12 seed betting the 5 seed.

Duke had to come from behind to beat Siena. Duke was down by 11 at halftime, the first time a 1 seed was down by double digits to a 16 seed. But they came back and won by 6. And Nebraska win their first ever NCAA tournament game.
 
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