2024/2025 NBA Season October 22nd Opening Tip off! Pg 112

23scidoo

Poncier said:

tempo_n_groove said:

Kyrie flipping the bird, lol.

Nets are going to win that series.  If KD and Curry shot better this game was done.

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Bye bye Nets..

xavier mcdaniel

23scidoo said:

Poncier said:

tempo_n_groove said:

Kyrie flipping the bird, lol.

Nets are going to win that series.  If KD and Curry shot better this game was done.

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Bye bye Nets..

one of the most tedious teams I've ever seen. Never saw a team in the NBA where it was more about who wasn't available. 

Poncier

Looks like the big trade might be a bust for both teams, at least for this season. Simmons never saw the floor and Harden looks cooked currently.
Whether Simmons does anything meaningful going forward remains to be seen, he's still quite young, but not sure the dude really cares about basketball, and that's a lot of money to pay a guy who doesn't love the game. Harden may be breaking down and at 32 his best days are clearly behind him

xavier mcdaniel

Poncier said:

Looks like the big trade might be a bust for both teams, at least for this season. Simmons never saw the floor and Harden looks cooked currently.
Whether Simmons does anything meaningful going forward remains to be seen, he's still quite young, but not sure the dude really cares about basketball, and that's a lot of money to pay a guy who doesn't love the game. Harden may be breaking down and at 32 his best days are clearly behind him

The Celtics were impressive. Their physicality in that series was championship like.

tempo_n_groove

Poncier said:

tempo_n_groove said:

Kyrie flipping the bird, lol.

Nets are going to win that series.  If KD and Curry shot better this game was done.

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If you would have told me that Kyrie and KD were checking out after game 1 I would have called you a liar and a fatmouth.

KD and Kyrie have lost all credibility with me now...  Oh and Simmons?  Child, please.

Even though they made it to the playoffs this team is a dumpster fire.

Pap

https://twitter.com/VerbalCommits/status/1518051367037898752

markymark550

Ja Morant would not be denied tonight.

Cliffy6745

These playoffs are so pretty damn good so far 

Jumb0

https://twitter.com/shotbynie/status/1519265068772380674?s=20&t=OBabsvTy0Aie6I3ZuDSfhg

tempo_n_groove

Jumb0 said:

https://twitter.com/shotbynie/status/1519265068772380674?s=20&t=OBabsvTy0Aie6I3ZuDSfhg

How is that not a foul?  He was out of the restricted area.  

Did he get there late?

With that being said that is Ja's signature move.  I know he has so much hang time that players can get set while he's already airborne!

Poncier

tempo_n_groove said:

Jumb0 said:

https://twitter.com/shotbynie/status/1519265068772380674?s=20&t=OBabsvTy0Aie6I3ZuDSfhg

How is that not a foul?  He was out of the restricted area.  

Did he get there late?

With that being said that is Ja's signature move.  I know he has so much hang time that players can get set while he's already airborne!

If you look closely there really isn't much of any contact, which is remarkable.
Mainly the contact is when Townes moves his arm at the end.
Ja somehow manages to not plow through him.

tempo_n_groove

Poncier said:

tempo_n_groove said:

Jumb0 said:

https://twitter.com/shotbynie/status/1519265068772380674?s=20&t=OBabsvTy0Aie6I3ZuDSfhg

How is that not a foul?  He was out of the restricted area.  

Did he get there late?

With that being said that is Ja's signature move.  I know he has so much hang time that players can get set while he's already airborne!

If you look closely there really isn't much of any contact, which is remarkable.
Mainly the contact is when Townes moves his arm at the end.
Ja somehow manages to not plow through him.

I disagree.  He had to move him or he would have never reached the basket.

Contact is contact.  That's a foul.

Ja's knees are in his chest.

The Juggler

I don't think that's a foul.. Slow motion shows Townes moving backwards a little right when Ja approaches him too. Incredible dunk.

tempo_n_groove

The Juggler said:

I don't think that's a foul.. Slow motion shows Townes moving backwards a little right when Ja approaches him too. Incredible dunk.

I thought he moved after contact?

Either way, bitchen dunk.  Still say it's a foul, lol.

The Juggler

tempo_n_groove said:

The Juggler said:

I don't think that's a foul.. Slow motion shows Townes moving backwards a little right when Ja approaches him too. Incredible dunk.

I thought he moved after contact?

Either way, bitchen dunk.  Still say it's a foul, lol.

I mean, if that kind of contact is a foul, every play in basketball would be as well. haha

Poncier

The Juggler said:

tempo_n_groove said:

The Juggler said:

I don't think that's a foul.. Slow motion shows Townes moving backwards a little right when Ja approaches him too. Incredible dunk.

I thought he moved after contact?

Either way, bitchen dunk.  Still say it's a foul, lol.

I mean, if that kind of contact is a foul, every play in basketball would be as well. haha

Exactly.
If anything he grazed him.

tempo_n_groove

The Juggler said:

tempo_n_groove said:

The Juggler said:

I don't think that's a foul.. Slow motion shows Townes moving backwards a little right when Ja approaches him too. Incredible dunk.

I thought he moved after contact?

Either way, bitchen dunk.  Still say it's a foul, lol.

I mean, if that kind of contact is a foul, every play in basketball would be as well. haha

Poncier said:

The Juggler said:

tempo_n_groove said:

The Juggler said:

I don't think that's a foul.. Slow motion shows Townes moving backwards a little right when Ja approaches him too. Incredible dunk.

I thought he moved after contact?

Either way, bitchen dunk.  Still say it's a foul, lol.

I mean, if that kind of contact is a foul, every play in basketball would be as well. haha

Exactly.
If anything he grazed him.

He is posted up in the restricted area.  Any contact w him is a charge, cmon...  Completely different.

Anyone that sacrifices their body like that should get the call.

Ledbetterman10

I hate when guys try to take a charge on a dunk. Try to block it instead. I would never in a million years give the defensive player the call there. 

Poncier

tempo_n_groove said:

The Juggler said:

tempo_n_groove said:

The Juggler said:

I don't think that's a foul.. Slow motion shows Townes moving backwards a little right when Ja approaches him too. Incredible dunk.

I thought he moved after contact?

Either way, bitchen dunk.  Still say it's a foul, lol.

I mean, if that kind of contact is a foul, every play in basketball would be as well. haha

Poncier said:

The Juggler said:

tempo_n_groove said:

The Juggler said:

I don't think that's a foul.. Slow motion shows Townes moving backwards a little right when Ja approaches him too. Incredible dunk.

I thought he moved after contact?

Either way, bitchen dunk.  Still say it's a foul, lol.

I mean, if that kind of contact is a foul, every play in basketball would be as well. haha

Exactly.
If anything he grazed him.

He is posted up in the restricted area.  Any contact w him is a charge, cmon...  Completely different.

Anyone that sacrifices their body like that should get the call.

He's outside the restricted area, not in it. If he's in it it's an automatic defensive foul, however it's not an automatic charge outside the area, you're mixing the rule up.

Buit watch the video in real time, not the twitter slo-mo.
First off, my bad its Beasley not Townes, thought from the other video it was KAT.
2nd there is pretty much no contact initiated by Morant. There's no way you call a charge there. Closest thing to contact were Ja's nuts almost landing on top of Beasley's head.

https://youtu.be/zDOF56D0yo4

cutz

Looking at that video above^^^ that could've been called a Block as it looked to me that the defender was moving when Ja took off for his Dunk.

Hell of a Dunk !!