Minor things that annoy you about the NBA

spflakers · Posted: Wed Mar 11, 2015 9:22 am Post subject:

* Guys getting fist bumps after missing a free throw. Happens at all levels obviously, but NBA is really annoying. I don't get it. What are you congratulating them for? The game LeBron botched all the FTs against Houston, he missed the first of 2 and put his hand back expecting someone to come up to give him a bump. It's so ingrained. Thankfully that time no one did and he was left hanging.

* The Deadspin fetishization of certain clips and players. Wow, I'm really a grouchy old man with this one. But still...Every day Deadspin's NBA coverage basically just consists of 200 words about a certain clip. Usually from Curry, Greek Freak, or Anthony Davis. Mostly it's Tom Ley's descriptions -- over the top, incredulous -- of the play that annoy so this is a Deadspin thing more than NBA complaint. And mostly this is just because I'm mad that this technology didn't exist when Magic played because despite all the great passes he's made, there's probably like 6,000 amazing ones that we'll never see again because the video's gone.

* NBA Twitter. Again, not an NBA complaint as much a people on Twitter complaint. It's just an annoying group of people who generally think they are smarter than every coach, GM, and player in the league, mixed in with vines of someone saying, "Klay Thompson...ridiculous."

* Flopping. Oldie but goodie. But still very annoying. I blame the refs. Don't call it, it'll stop. Fines won't do anything.

* PA guys. Again, I'm so old and grouchy. But yes, give me Lawrence Tanter and the Forum crowd rhythmically clapping before a big game, lights on.

* MVP! MVP! MVP! MVP! MVP! MVP! MVP! MVP!

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TOO many .gifs
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C M B · Posted: Wed Mar 11, 2015 10:41 am Post subject:

The product has deteriorated so much that detailing how with any specificity actually does make someone sound like a crotchety, bitter old coot angry at and out of touch with this generation of youth, except it's not as arbitrary as some old-world bastardt curmudging about you kids and yer music and yer tattoos--there has been a finite slouch in the NBA's presentation, and it took just a single generation to go down the tubes/hell in a handbasket/etc.
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kikanga · Posted: Thu Mar 12, 2015 7:34 am Post subject:

My brother and I joke around all the time that by the time we're old and gray the NBA will look completely different.
I say the key will be a trampoline and there will be a 4 and 5 point line. And we'll sound like the oldies nowadays who try to explain to me how much better Jerry West and Oscar Robertson's stats would've been with a 3 point line.

My brother always likes upping the joke to the next level. He says the NBA will be playing Quidditch by the time we're old. Instead of rim-protectors we'll be talking about how the Lakers need a better "keeper" to make the finals.
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vanexelent · Retired Number Joined: 17 May 2005 Posts: 30081

I think we can all agree that we love this though.

https://vine.co/v/O9Ore12QzHQ

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bryants2hot2handle · Star Player Joined: 09 Jan 2007 Posts: 5392

I hate how any lebron james superteam gets a cakewalk to the NBA finals every year (including this year) in a weak, weak, weak eastern conference, while in the west, teams are already killing each other at war in round 1.

They need to revise playoff seeding to balance things out.

I also do not like the 5000+ jerseys as OP said.

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Flopping
refs
focusing on individuals as if the rest of the team doesn't matter
star players don't go at each other (especially defensively)
lack of fundamentals
too much pick and roll
big men shooting long jumpers
players with no post game
intentional fouls
jumping into defensive players to draw fouls

how many can I give?

LakerDYnasty72 · Star Player Joined: 18 Jul 2006 Posts: 4572

The foul out rule. It's always been accepted but it still doesn't validate its' use. Players play timid, the same players who customers paid to see. Just make it so severe a penalty for a player with six fouls or whatever.

Severe like after 6 fouls if the player fouls again the opposing team gets like four free throws or something like that. But take that crappy rule out. The only ejection should be for a flagrant foul.

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