NBA Thread

[RaceToTheTop]

Hope missed free throws don’t haunt the pacers.

[rayl456]

I hate seeing Siakam and Toppin handling the ball.  

[RaceToTheTop]

**** Scott Foster

[Brass Cannon]

The NBA has more in common with wrestling than anybody will admit 

[RaceToTheTop]

Pacers have shot themselves in the foot in the fourth quarter but the refs gave the pacers no chance either.

[TheWatShot]

Pacers were up 10 with the ball twice, only to have Toppin miss two free throws and Siakim miss a long 2 while everyone stood around. Had a feeling that would come back to haunt. 

[TheWatShot]

I'm drained. I don't even want to watch another game. 

[sirhoosierlot]

I’m trying not to be a doomer but that was a brutal brutal loss 

[Brass Cannon]

14 minutes ago, sirhoosierlot said:

I’m trying not to be a doomer but that was a brutal brutal loss 

Only hope now is the NBA script is that the Pacers win another one in OKC. Comes down to what the league has decided best fits this seasons narrative. It’s all crooked 

[Stuhoo]

1 hour ago, Brass Cannon said:

Only hope now is the NBA script is that the Pacers win another one in OKC. Comes down to what the league has decided best fits this seasons narrative. It’s all crooked 

lol… it’s not a league narrative to have an Indiana/OKC Finals. If the league could script things, these are the teams that would never sniff a title: Indiana, OKC, Sacramento, Portland, New Orleans, Utah, Milwaukee.

Two of them are in the Finals this year. That’s a business model nightmare.

And btw… those are quite literally the best basketball referees on the planet.

[Hoosierfan2017]

The NBA desperately needs a new face of the league after LeBron/Curry retire. It won’t be SGA because an unethical hooper will never have mass appeal, but it’s easy to see why the NBA would favor OKC winning to try to push him into that spot.  

We all just saw the NBA blatantly rig the draft, so influencing the Finals through officiating isn’t a stretch at all. 

[J34]

2 hours ago, Stuhoo said:

lol… it’s not a league narrative to have an Indiana/OKC Finals. If the league could script things, these are the teams that would never sniff a title: Indiana, OKC, Sacramento, Portland, New Orleans, Utah, Milwaukee.

Two of them are in the Finals this year. That’s a business model nightmare.

And btw… those are quite literally the best basketball referees on the planet.

https://x.com/YeahYeahOkBro/status/1933728431407050895?t=DPzylF5nplvv3cbg0d36ug&s=19

 

So, you're saying that Scott Foster, who was close with and mentioned in the Tim Donaghy investigation, is one of the best referees on the planet?

The pushoff/creating separation and the blatant travel, are not "missed" at my grandsons biddy ball league. The league is a joke, and it has been for years.

[Hoosierfan2017]

4 minutes ago, J34 said:

https://x.com/YeahYeahOkBro/status/1933728431407050895?t=DPzylF5nplvv3cbg0d36ug&s=19

 

So, you're saying that Scott Foster, who was close with and mentioned in the Tim Donaghy investigation, is one of the best referees on the planet?

The pushoff/creating separation and the blatant travel, are not "missed" at my grandsons buddy ball league. The league is a joke, and it has been for years.

They don’t call Foster The Extender for no reason…

[TheWatShot]

Foster has reffed Game 4 in five straight finals. He's there for a reason. 

[Stuhoo]

21 minutes ago, J34 said:

https://x.com/YeahYeahOkBro/status/1933728431407050895?t=DPzylF5nplvv3cbg0d36ug&s=19

 

So, you're saying that Scott Foster, who was close with and mentioned in the Tim Donaghy investigation, is one of the best referees on the planet?

The pushoff/creating separation and the blatant travel, are not "missed" at my grandsons biddy ball league. The league is a joke, and it has been for years.

Psshh…

Foster and Donaghy were close friends but there apparently was zero evidence that Foster was involved in gambling. Insinuating against or assailing Foster based on zero evidence other than they were friends who talked on the phone? No sir.

And taking a two second clip out of a 48 minute game with three refs, playing it in slow motion, and using it as an example of any ref’s supposed incompetence is pretty weak sauce IMO.

These are world class athletes playing at full speed and in constant contact with each other, and frequently in the sight lines of referees. To say that over the course of any game some calls can be second guessed is completely irrelevant to the quality of refereeing. 

[Stuhoo]

12 minutes ago, TheWatShot said:

Foster has reffed Game 4 in five straight finals. He's there for a reason. 

Very much hoping you are implying it’s because he’s damn good.

[TheWatShot]

5 minutes ago, Stuhoo said:

Very much hoping you are implying it’s because he’s damn good.

Why does he always do Game 4? Because a series can only be 3-0 or 2-1 going into it, and his presences improves the likelihood of the series getting a fifth or sixth game. 

 

Keep bending the knee. 

[Hoosierfan2017]

7 minutes ago, Stuhoo said:

Very much hoping you are implying it’s because he’s damn good.

Damn good at what he’s there to do, certainly.

[Brass Cannon]

2 hours ago, Stuhoo said:

lol… it’s not a league narrative to have an Indiana/OKC Finals. If the league could script things, these are the teams that would never sniff a title: Indiana, OKC, Sacramento, Portland, New Orleans, Utah, Milwaukee.

Two of them are in the Finals this year. That’s a business model nightmare.

And btw… those are quite literally the best basketball referees on the planet.

Markets matter less than superstars. They can’t have the MVP superstar losing. 

[Stuhoo]

22 minutes ago, TheWatShot said:

Why does he always do Game 4? Because a series can only be 3-0 or 2-1 going into it, and his presences improves the likelihood of the series getting a fifth or sixth game. 

 

Keep bending the knee. 

 

20 minutes ago, Hoosierfan2017 said:

Damn good at what he’s there to do, certainly.

 

3 minutes ago, Brass Cannon said:

Markets matter less than superstars. They can’t have the MVP superstar losing. 

Three posters.

Three posts.

Three 100% evidence-free conspiracy theories.