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@JamesSurowiecki And they know that we know that they will keep lying.

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@ejmaroun Naaah. This is crazier

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@KevinOConnor He should

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@kurtiscent @SheaSerrano 💯

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@911WasTheJuice @SheaSerrano @ironmikeluke He didn't just have a bad night though, he wasn't competing. He was scared to be out there

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@HPbasketball I think OKC probably would have won if they had Chet in this game.

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@WizSzn @TimBontemps Still not worth it

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@JosephLaMagna @kirkgoldsberry You would have to keep winning them. If they're missing that many calls the problem isn't the amount of challenges available.

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@ugliestmfsever @MykellthePG @MrBrendan23 @ringer @SheaSerrano LeBron had a bad series. That same team swept the Lakers and Jason Terry outplayed Kobe while his team with multiple all stars and sixth man of the year and GOAT coach fell apart.

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@NeuralEv @NBA Woke? I think Jokic is the best player in the world but there are plenty of less lazy arguments available to say why he should be MVP or someone else is the wrong choice.

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@MykellthePG @MrBrendan23 @ringer @SheaSerrano No

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@JML940 @AndrewDBailey What? 😂 This is what constant revisionist history on socially and from talking heads does. When it was happening it wasn't a question, at all.

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@heyitsgilroy @angusdav @tripgabriel @pitdesi @angusdav, your response?

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@IsaacVelazquez3 @MichaelRFD @HPbasketball Applied equally? Fine, but if this was the rule then we likely wouldn't be having this discussion right now because Shai would have been shooting 3 FTs at both 14sec and 8sec and we likely would have never gotten to a 3 point game.

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@MichaelRFD @alxgadeh @HPbasketball I think this is a reasonable argument, we've just accepting the losing team fouling to save clock for decades. A lot of people here ok with that but do with a winning team using the same rule breaking to their advantage. Should be the same either way. It's allowed or isn't.

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@RatingsNBA @HPbasketball So you're suggesting late in games the flow will change regardless- okay then. Currently the losing team can disrupt the flow to improve their chances to catch up. You made the original "flow of the game" argument. The entertainment argument is different.

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@alxgadeh @MichaelRFD @HPbasketball I think(?) we're on the same side of this- I perceived this to be an argument that OKC shouldn't be able to gain an advantage by intentional fouling up 3 while Minn was doing most that up until that point. It would be ridiculous to treat the winning team differently.

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@zachmok @HPbasketball So just give the team behind an advantage? That's clearly who this would advantage since the winning team would never intentionally foul while the losing team would foul as they do now except only gift 1 FT before having a chance to get the ball back.

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@MichaelRFD @HPbasketball Okay, so how should Minnesota have been penalized for all of the intentional fouling up to that point?

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@RatingsNBA @HPbasketball From an entertainment standpoint I'd like to see teams be able to get off a three in those situations, but it's strange to talk about the line being a change in the flow of the game when fouling while behind late does exactly that and has been a tactic for decades.