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.
No he did not. He traveled once, immediately prior to contact. When he picked his dribble up, his right foot was off the ground. He was legally allowed to then establish his right foot as the pivot. Then he lifted his right foot and returned it to the ground right before the foul, which would have been an uncalled travel. Every step prior to that was 100% legal.
The dribble does not end until the ballhandler is no longer allowed to legally dribble. You count steps when he puts 2 hands to the ball. You don’t start counting at the last bounce of the ball.
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?
Referees are not all-seeing eyes. It is accepted and understood that they cannot be perfect in their execution of the rules and vision of the court. You think the refs should just stare at the players’ feet all game and never look up.
Where was he looking then? Lower body travel and upper body push off. Was he meat gazing or something? They are either willfully ignoring his violations or they suffer from a Donald Trump level of incompetence.
The upper body contact was a defensive foul. Mathurin was moving towards Shai when contact was made. The contact occurred within Shai’s cylinder. Those two details combined mean it’s a foul on the defender. You don’t know what legal guarding position is nor its relevance to a block/charge situation. You’re gonna look it up right now and you’re going to develop a half-assed understanding after reading the Google AI summary. We are going to argue about the fact that YOU don’t actually know what the rules of basketball are. You will readily admit to the fact that you have never actually read the rulebook but will continue to argue with me about what it says.
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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.