Is it just the golden pineapple or is the audio a bit wacky on this?

Like the effects of the ball bouncing is “enhanced”. At 13 seconds especially. Tricked me into going back to see if the ball was flat lmao.

Lol, after the 309 points in regulation last night, Pacers/Hawks play games of 263pts and 292pts tonight.

Truly just vibes and offense.

Damn that last dunk was nasty.

Barrett makes a pretty bush league foul; impressive that Gobert still finished it with the slam.

I’m trying to get my inner monologue to enjoy Lamelo highlights, but all I can think about is whether or not this dude is gonna be forced to wear that patch on his neck for the next ~15 years lol.

Maybe he can add smaller letters to it to spell out his name, idk. Like if it says:

L ^a

F ^rance

I wonder if that’d be considered acceptable, or if the logo is the issue.

This combo of the play, the flash, and the low quality is perfect lol.

https://imgur.com/a/uhmeYRr

This is the type of play I dream of AI refs eliminating from the game.

Lavine clearly does give Jimmy a little shove at the very last second of his hand-check, but some combination of biomechanics/physics should be able to determine the extent of that contact and discern whether or not the contact at that moment forced Butler into a reaction that led him out of bounds.

If Jimmy doesn’t go out of bounds here, no way there’s a whistle. But the leg flailing is pure theatrics, without question.

Probably like 25-40 years away though from that type of AI, unlucky.

I’m not saying a human shouldn’t be able to either btw, but the fact is that they do, consistently. Tennis has been much more enjoyable for me with electronic line-calling, and for such a subjectively officiated game like basketball/football/actual football,

Hell, even with technology, VAR is a disaster in the EPL. Need consistent/impartial technology for sport. The people that think the lack of officiating drama would hurt the game hurt my brain.

You might not be old enough to remember the scandal clearly enough, since Donaghy was willing to sing for anyone and everyone that would listen, be it interviews, his book, authorities, whoever.

He made his accusations very clear. The whole thing about being a “company man” and choosing which video complaints to enforce in the playoffs to make series/playoffs in general better for the NBA. The Kings vs Lakers series stands out in that regard.

People conveniently forget that the FBI/NBA already investigated Scott Foster. It’d be ridiculous not to, given the amount of phone calls that happened between the two during the season.

This whole “NBA refs are all corrupt” just doesn’t pass occam’s razor in the least. Similar energy as “jet fuel doesn’t can’t melt steel beams”.

Why do you think it’s corruption instead of incompetency when refs of all sports suck ass?

Tennis is lucky enough to have moved on to electronic line calling.

Even in a sport where all you have to do is look at a line and call it in or out, the linespeople sucked ass in tennis too.

Damn, 4 seconds on the shot-clock, 9 seconds left in the game, and a 100-100 score when he catches the ball.

Kawhi says, “fuck it, here James” and lets James try to create a shot after he couldn’t get space to get his own shot away.

Ends up being even more tightly contested than Kawhi’s look too, but the defender has a lot less length and Harden’s stepback hits a bit different.

This is why someone with a similar body, like Durant, or someone even much stronger, like Lebron, are totally fine with a turnaround J in this type of look.

You know exactly what shot you’re taking and the defender can’t impact it at all.

Especially in a situation like this where Looney has inside help.

Damn, they’re mostly bombs too.

Love when a powerful dunk like this comes from an off-leg jump, just looks cool.

Pass would’ve been amazing enough if he threw it where his chest was facing, to Lavine in the corner.

Instead we get this mindblowing moment.

Perfect pass too …

Play by play announcing is important to me.

I turn on the Manningcast very rarely just to get a glimpse of it, but they would have to be unreasonably funny/insightful to make me give up a play by play announcer.