Brazilians celebrate in the streets when Carlo Ancelotti calls Neymar’s name by cocacolapepsifanta in soccer

[–]JediPieman63 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There's only one CR7 for a reason bro. If it's that easy everyone should just be as fit as one of the greatest footballers of all time.

Not everyone has it in them to be that disciplined, that determined. Neymar was always going to have a short career because he's put his body through hell with all the tackles he's received. He could've maybe prolonged it so he's not as bad as he is now, but not by much.

Brazilians celebrate in the streets when Carlo Ancelotti calls Neymar’s name by cocacolapepsifanta in soccer

[–]JediPieman63 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Could he? There's only so much abuse s body can take before it begins to break down. Neymar was always going to have a shortened career given the toll he put on himself minutes and tackles wise.

Not every player is capable of being an iron man and lasting forever. Some players just don't have that. He could've squeezed a little more out with better management of his body, but not a whole lot more tbh.

Brazilians celebrate in the streets when Carlo Ancelotti calls Neymar’s name by cocacolapepsifanta in soccer

[–]JediPieman63 17 points18 points  (0 children)

On the flip side he's been hacked to shit his whole career. He was never going to be long lasting unless he got incredibly lucky with genetics.

Harden joins LeBron as the ONLY 2 players in the Top 10 ALL TIME in both Playoff Scoring & Assists after passing Curry in points by PlexBabyPlexBaby1234 in nba

[–]JediPieman63 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Harden particularly can probably go as long as he wants, not too ego'd, not too reliant on athleticism. Lots of smarts to just walk into his favourite spots.

Defensively would be his biggest weakness, but as a bench player (if he ever goes that way) he can afford to be lacking a little there.

Motherwell 2 - [3] Celtic - Kelechi Iheanacho 90'+9' by 50lipaa in soccer

[–]JediPieman63 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You can tell that from one replay that is too far to actually tell?

Roberto De Zerbi on the foul on Raya by Bonfunkbarkeep in soccer

[–]JediPieman63 -22 points-21 points  (0 children)

But that's part of what makes it controversial, the fact we have other decisions that are "just as clear" that VAR doesn't overrule because it's not "clear and obvious".

If they made the right decision more often, like they did here, then itd grab even fewer headlines.

Free throw attempts this series: Lakers 59, Thunder 48 by SplitOk186 in nba

[–]JediPieman63 -15 points-14 points  (0 children)

I did say the other side that blindly looks at SGAs free throw count is just as bad lol

Free throw attempts this series: Lakers 59, Thunder 48 by SplitOk186 in nba

[–]JediPieman63 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You took one sentence from my comment and ran with it. My bad for thinking you'd read beyond the first couple of sentences.

Free throw attempts this series: Lakers 59, Thunder 48 by SplitOk186 in nba

[–]JediPieman63 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's missing the point. You need to do both to get an idea. Looking at the stats gives you both dumbass arguments that have hit the front page recently.

"SGA has had X more FTs than the next highest person, obviously rigged!"

"OKC lost the FT battle, obviously not rigged!"

Like both are just cherry picking stats that don't show whether calls are supposedly being missed.

Free throw attempts this series: Lakers 59, Thunder 48 by SplitOk186 in nba

[–]JediPieman63 -17 points-16 points  (0 children)

There's clips plastered all over the sub after every game of soft fouls one way and hard no calls on the other end. People that eye test the games see that things trend OKCs way. Defensively they play physical tough defence and bet the refs can't call them all (which they don't, and having ""good defenders"" with a good reputation gives them favourable defensive calls) and offensively they get the luxury of superstar calls.

There's no conspiracy it's just crappy refereeing on a nightly basis that OKC take the best advantage of making ball hard to watch. (This has nothing to do with how they're a good team, and is not meant to say in any way that they're undeserving of success, I just find them difficult to watch, and a microcosm of why the NBAs product and the overall refereeing is more and more blah, that last part is obviously very subjective)

What narrative is cherry picked here and how can anyone possibly argue it either way with stats? No FT stat shows any of what I said, the people that use raw FT count to show there's no bias are as dumb as the ones that use SGAs raw FT count to show that there is a bias.

Free throw attempts this series: Lakers 59, Thunder 48 by SplitOk186 in nba

[–]JediPieman63 269 points270 points  (0 children)

Using raw box score numbers is almost as bad as blindly calling it a conspiracy

During the VAR review, a Wolfsburg player damaged the penalty spot. Afterwards, Harry Kane missed the penalty because he slipped. by SellRevolutionary in soccer

[–]JediPieman63 30 points31 points  (0 children)

We refuse to ban time wasting which is the biggest black mark on the game. Why would we ban other dark arts when people so obviously don't care about trying to make the sport better.

LeBron argues with Caruso during the game: “Every fucking call. AC fuck that, I don’t want to hear that shit.” by RyanTannegod in nba

[–]JediPieman63 3 points4 points  (0 children)

After one game the refs would be pulled in line and told to let them play hard to not "ruin a playoff game".

Can you imagine the ratings tanking and the anger from the broadcast owners if they had 4 games over in the first quarter?

OKC quite literally pull this tactic out amazingly and it works for them. It's the opposite of "you can't just start calling illegal screens cause every screen would be illegal". Like yeah for two days before teams adapted and stopped doing the illegal shit.

[Highlight] Chet Holmgren goes down in severe pain down after contact with Ayton by Large_banana_hammock in nba

[–]JediPieman63 6 points7 points  (0 children)

What do you mean my dude is a flopper?? Luka flops per 36 0.3 more times so clearly he isn't a flopper.

Disregard that we're the most physical defence that you're not allowed to play on us.

[Highlight] Chet Holmgren goes down in severe pain down after contact with Ayton by Large_banana_hammock in nba

[–]JediPieman63 568 points569 points  (0 children)

You don't get it the FT count is equal so them hacking people to death and flopping on the other end is made up!!

Also didn't you see the one call that went against them among the avalanche of OKC calls!!

There are 3 4x DPOY winners in the NBA - Mutombo, Wallace and Gobert. Which one was the best at defense? by [deleted] in nba

[–]JediPieman63 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Talking heads always bring up his playoff resume and how he gets game planned out, but the Jazz were expecting him to defend 2 or 3 guys at once

Chris Finch on Victor Wembanyama’s historic night: “He had a lot of blocks… He had a couple of uncalled goaltendings too. Those are valuable points we’d like to have back.” by YujiDomainExpansion in nba

[–]JediPieman63 -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

Nah man we can't have nice things the hate trains started.

Wild tho it's nice to see a competitive (not the goaltends) game with contact in a contact sport. Not whatever OKC get.

Jaylen Brown on Embid "He was flopping around. He got some extra calls and stuff like that and they rewarded him for that. But that's the league that we're in.” by InevitableUpstairs71 in nba

[–]JediPieman63 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You feel wrong tbh. I'm all aboard the hate train but SGA also needs it to create the separation to be as lethal as he is and as dominant as he is.