2010 NBA Playoffs
NBA Season Over But the Jokes Go On and On
06/27/10 09:56 Filed in: NBA
The NBA season is over, but the riot (i.e. jokes),
continues:
1) The ludicrous NBA draft.
The NBA draft system is absurd. No team has their own draft pick, no team picks their own players. No trades, just pick the guy that other team wants; work it out later. Screw the fans - let them buy a scorecard next season.
What should be done is to require all those deals to be completed before a player is drafted by the team that doesn’t want him. How is very easy. There should be a rule that no drafted played can be traded for one year. Now how hard was that to fix?
2) Even more ridiculous is the Lebum circus - mature professionals, well established in their field, falling all over themselves to kiss-up to Mr. Conglomerate, who cares not an iota for team, but only for his marketing success and personal statistics, for the privilege of handing him perhaps hundreds of millions of dollars. Wherever he goes, the fans will revel in his stats, the coach will enter a path to termination, and the team will be vilified for not doing what else needed to be done that deprived Lebum of his rightful titles.
1) The ludicrous NBA draft.
The NBA draft system is absurd. No team has their own draft pick, no team picks their own players. No trades, just pick the guy that other team wants; work it out later. Screw the fans - let them buy a scorecard next season.
What should be done is to require all those deals to be completed before a player is drafted by the team that doesn’t want him. How is very easy. There should be a rule that no drafted played can be traded for one year. Now how hard was that to fix?
2) Even more ridiculous is the Lebum circus - mature professionals, well established in their field, falling all over themselves to kiss-up to Mr. Conglomerate, who cares not an iota for team, but only for his marketing success and personal statistics, for the privilege of handing him perhaps hundreds of millions of dollars. Wherever he goes, the fans will revel in his stats, the coach will enter a path to termination, and the team will be vilified for not doing what else needed to be done that deprived Lebum of his rightful titles.
theHoundDawg
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On the Road
Well, theHoundDawg just got back last night from four
days in the bay area. Thanks to satellite radio and
Tommy’s fabulous Mexican restaurant in SF, I didn’t
miss too much LA sports.
Thursday eve in SF, I was able to hear some of the Laker finale on SiriusXM, and then at dinner at Tommy’s I had an excellent view of the TV for the fourth quarter. A great margarita, a great meal, and a sensational final quarter to the NBA season. As it was the City, as the game ended, the Warrior, Celtic and anti-LA fans that populated the place broke into a sustained round of silence, with a few rationed applause sounds from me and a couple of other brave souls. MrsHound remained silent so as not to enrage the masses.
On Sunday, as the afternoon turned into evening, driving home on the aromatic five, the sounds of Dodger baseball helped pass the time, though losing that third in a row to Boston was painful.
Even more painful was the fact the SiriusXM broadcasts of both the Laker-Celtic game (and the post-game we listened to after leaving Tommy’s) and the Dodger-Red Sox game were feeds of the Boston broadcasts, with Boston’s homer announcers, including the basketball color guy, the never-to-be forgotten Cedric “Cornbread” Maxwell.
Thursday eve in SF, I was able to hear some of the Laker finale on SiriusXM, and then at dinner at Tommy’s I had an excellent view of the TV for the fourth quarter. A great margarita, a great meal, and a sensational final quarter to the NBA season. As it was the City, as the game ended, the Warrior, Celtic and anti-LA fans that populated the place broke into a sustained round of silence, with a few rationed applause sounds from me and a couple of other brave souls. MrsHound remained silent so as not to enrage the masses.
On Sunday, as the afternoon turned into evening, driving home on the aromatic five, the sounds of Dodger baseball helped pass the time, though losing that third in a row to Boston was painful.
Even more painful was the fact the SiriusXM broadcasts of both the Laker-Celtic game (and the post-game we listened to after leaving Tommy’s) and the Dodger-Red Sox game were feeds of the Boston broadcasts, with Boston’s homer announcers, including the basketball color guy, the never-to-be forgotten Cedric “Cornbread” Maxwell.
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Why Can't Sports Use Technology to GET IT RIGHT?
In this electronic age, where most human activity is
monitored, recorded, and evaluated, where technology
is able to observe and record minute actions millions
of miles away, where the NFL can show an instant
replay of every movement on their field, from 20
separate angles, within seconds of the plays’
completion, how can it be that:
1) An experienced MLB umpire’s blown call - shown to be incorrect seconds afterward, can deprive a pitcher of the immortality of a perfect game, and
2) In what could have been a decisive play in the closing minuted of an NBA Finals game, NBA refs, unsure of a call, can use that same replay to determine which player last touched a ball knocked out of bounds, but when that replay shows an obvious but previously missed foul, that would change possession, they must ignore the obvious foul, but award possession based on the content of the replay.
This is absurd.
We all know the extremely limited use of replay in major league baseball, and how that ridiculous position deprived, barely a week ago, Armando Galarraga from registering a perfect game. There is no justification for archaic rules that prohibit using everyday equipment to overturn what is wrong, to produce the correct outcome.
In the final couple of minutes of tonight’s Laker-Celtic game, with the score close and the outcome not yet determined, under the Celtic basket, a ball was knocked out of bounds. The referees gathered and agreed it was a play to view on replay in order to determine ONLY who last touched the ball. As millions of TV viewers watched, the referees saw two things - that the ball last went off the arm of Laker Lamar Odom, and that he lost the ball out of bounds because he was fouled.
What did the rules of the NBA require? That the ball be awarded to Boston, because the refs had to use the reply to see who last touched the ball and that the refs had to ignore the obvious foul that caused the ball to leave Odom’s grasp and tumble across the out-of-bounds line.
Why can’t the concept of GETTING IT RIGHT be the most important factor in refereeing and umpiring sporting events where millionaire players are performing at the behest of billionaire owners, for the entertainment of hundreds of millions of fans.
1) An experienced MLB umpire’s blown call - shown to be incorrect seconds afterward, can deprive a pitcher of the immortality of a perfect game, and
2) In what could have been a decisive play in the closing minuted of an NBA Finals game, NBA refs, unsure of a call, can use that same replay to determine which player last touched a ball knocked out of bounds, but when that replay shows an obvious but previously missed foul, that would change possession, they must ignore the obvious foul, but award possession based on the content of the replay.
This is absurd.
We all know the extremely limited use of replay in major league baseball, and how that ridiculous position deprived, barely a week ago, Armando Galarraga from registering a perfect game. There is no justification for archaic rules that prohibit using everyday equipment to overturn what is wrong, to produce the correct outcome.
In the final couple of minutes of tonight’s Laker-Celtic game, with the score close and the outcome not yet determined, under the Celtic basket, a ball was knocked out of bounds. The referees gathered and agreed it was a play to view on replay in order to determine ONLY who last touched the ball. As millions of TV viewers watched, the referees saw two things - that the ball last went off the arm of Laker Lamar Odom, and that he lost the ball out of bounds because he was fouled.
What did the rules of the NBA require? That the ball be awarded to Boston, because the refs had to use the reply to see who last touched the ball and that the refs had to ignore the obvious foul that caused the ball to leave Odom’s grasp and tumble across the out-of-bounds line.
Why can’t the concept of GETTING IT RIGHT be the most important factor in refereeing and umpiring sporting events where millionaire players are performing at the behest of billionaire owners, for the entertainment of hundreds of millions of fans.
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