Hats off to SGA for a super ethical quarter of basketball!
And, look, he still got his! And his team is winning!
But instead of putting up Michael Jordan numbers on Wilt’s efficiency, he’s just “Prime Dwyane Wade”… which is way more reasonable!
Everyone wins this way!
Alan Porter, the best ump in baseball, with another masterpiece last night:
~96% accuracy on taken pitches
~97% overall consistency (Ump Scorecards)
Five hours of tense baseball
472 pitches: no miss by more than an inch, with only five framed misses
I am going to announce my retirement from watching basketball.
The current product of The NBA is simply not good. And this OKC run is a prime example of it.
There is no consistency in decisions, and in the playoffs particularly, there is a double standard.
Players like Lu Dort and Alex Caruso get away with man handling their opponents, whilst the slightest bit of contact on Shai Gilgeous Alexander gets called as a foul.
Allows them to completely shift the momentum of the game, and prevents oppositions from picking up any sort of flow.
More time is spent at the free throw line than actual hoops.
I don’t enjoy OKC. I don’t enjoy the officiating. I think this ring has a big asterisk in it, with both Nuggets and Pacers losing their 2nd best player in Game 7, whilst OKC of course go unharmed.
Adam Silver would not let ratings get worse than they are now by letting an underdog win, because that would show bad product. But the reality is, the horrendous officiating shows even worse product.
Pacers should have won Game 4, but again, awful officiating by Scott Foster didn’t allow them.