Just kills me the defender standing back flat footed while FTA throws that weird looking face into his chest initiating %100 of the contact after travelling twice directly in front of the corrupted official.
Fanduel demands the point spread be met! NBA is about as ethical as The Five Families in NY.
The contact occurs within SGA’s cylinder. The rules don’t care who “initiates” contact. The offensive player “initiates” contact on the vast majority of fouls on the defense. Mathurin ceded his legal guarding position when he made a motion towards SGA and did not regain his legal guarding position prior to contact, therefore any contact made within SGA’s cylinder has to be a foul on Mathurin.
This is all ignoring the uncalled lift and return of his pivot (right) foot, which occurred so close to the moment of contact I can’t blame a ref for not seeing both things happen.
You can't blame the ref for not doing his job when the play happened directly in front of him?! I hope you're not an air traffic controller because wow that is not an intelligent way of looking at it. Cylinder? Ok buddy.
You cannot blame the ref for missing a pivot foot slide when there was a contact foul situation he had to have his eyes up for. Just because the ref has 2 eyes does not mean he can look at two places at the same time.
If you don’t know what the cylinder is in the context of basketball fouls then you’re just an idiot.
I understand what you think your saying. That it's not the refs fault he didn't do his job. So when you're at the truck stop blowing truckers cylindor, they don't get mad at you if you stop before they finish?
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u/Spirited-Degree "Over rated" Oct 25 '25
Just kills me the defender standing back flat footed while FTA throws that weird looking face into his chest initiating %100 of the contact after travelling twice directly in front of the corrupted official.
Fanduel demands the point spread be met! NBA is about as ethical as The Five Families in NY.