@JoshHenschke Wish you the best in whatever you do next, Josh! I really enjoyed being a member at M&BR and have you to thank for that. You made that place a ton of fun and you brought great info. Gonna miss you man. Hope to see you covering Michigan in some capacity in the future!
I’ve played, coached, reffed & covered basketball for 30+ years. I’m also NOT a Spurs fan. What OKC has done — building half their strategy to manipulate the refs on every possession — is a disgrace to the game and awful to watch. This is Harden on steroids. Fans deserve better.
The guy who “retired” before sanctions, covered for a coach beating his wife, got caught grinding at a bar, and flamed out in the NFL because players thought he was a joke? Yeah, that guy is surely someone to talk about respect 😂😂
Got curious and looked up the numbers since the anti-flopping rule started in 2023-2024…
23-24 season: 26 calls/fines
24-25 season: 6 calls/fines
25-26 season: 1 call/fine
The league knows exactly what they’re doing
Danis Jenkins barely touched James Harden on the arm and he threw his WHOLE HEAD BACK 😭
JB Bickerstaff was PISSED. Harden really the greatest flopper of all time man lmaooo
Ausar has 28 steals and 23 blocks through 13 playoff games, so I went to @stathead to see how many other players in the play-by-play era have done that. And yeah, it's just he and Ben Wallace, but Ben had 35 steals and 38 blocks through 13 games in '03. Dude was a true phenomenon
Watching hall of fame players just flop and flail all over the place every night is honestly just so beneath the sport.
The NBA should actually be ashamed of itself as an entity for allowing this shit to happen on the biggest stage every night. This product sucks.
This was a foul on Cade Cunningham
Everyone say a prayer for James Harden, the prison ball Pistons leader almost killed him with a 1990’s reckless play!
#Pistons 100% deserve their blame for blowing a 9 point lead late. But using that as an excuse to dismiss bad officiating tells me everything I need to know about you.
P.J. Tucker and Brian Windhorst reach to the no call on Ausar Thompson last night:
“You call that call anytime of the game. That call has to be made. 1000%. There’s no way you don’t make that call — I believe it was a foul. If I were a Pistons fan I wouldn’t listen to anything else”
These two clips are from the same game.
The first clip shows a normal James Harden three point shot.
The second clip shows the foul he drew on Tobias Harris.
See if you can notice any difference on what Harden does with his feet.
A free throw disparity of 100-54 or worse has happened 11 times in NBA Playoffs history.
But, a FOULS disparity of 78-48 or worse has never happened.
Pure FT Margin over an X-game stretch is hard to search, but #Pistons difference against Cavs is undeniably historic