NBA Season Thread 2019-2020 - Page 633 - Sporting Events and Fantasy Sports

As a neutral observer, if I had to guess the size of the net referee impact in each game in the Lakers/Nuggets series, it would be something like:

Game 2 > Game 4 > Game 3 > Game 1

I think the Nuggets have been favored overall though by a negligible amount.

The problem here with all the whining here is that you need to be unbiased yourself in order to legitimately assess the net referee bias, but everyone who cares enough to look into this in details is heavily biased. So you end up with video clips of marginal calls and non-calls that went against your team, while completely ignoring calls and non-calls that went against the other team.

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09-25-2020 , 04:47 PM

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Originally Posted by ILOVEPOKER929

They tried to rig it for the Heat but then Dwayne Wade got injured and ****ed everything up. Remember how Dallas couldn't even breathe on Wade in 06 without getting a foul call in the most rigged NBA series since 02 Sac vs LA? They were doing the same thing to the Pistons in 05 and then this happened.

The Finals are like the least likely games to be rigged, and if they were rigged it wouldn't be for the favorite

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09-25-2020 , 05:24 PM

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Monte Morris has been suspended for game 5 for a blatant attempt to permanently injure Anthony Davis:

Thankfully he was able to defy the odds and gut it out for the rest of the game. I don't know how he's able to continue while being in so much pain tbqh.

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09-25-2020 , 05:57 PM

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72off

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ya brow acts as if he's died like 3x per game, it's pretty funny

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09-25-2020 , 06:04 PM

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Play by play of the calls with Ronnie Nunn. gmafb. There are like 3 that I didn't even notice.

Last edited by Seadood228; 09-25-2020 at 06:09 PM.

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09-25-2020 , 06:11 PM

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09-25-2020 , 06:19 PM

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Cinarocket

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Don't think anybody is more happy than Jokic right now, 0 points in the 4th quarter last 2 games yet everybody is talking about the refs rather than him

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09-25-2020 , 07:00 PM

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Seadood228

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Salty Embiid stan prefers the world being denied of good basketball if it means his man is saved from further embarrassment, SAD.

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09-25-2020 , 07:01 PM

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GodgersWOAT

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Embroken still has stans? They flying confederate flags, too?

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09-25-2020 , 07:06 PM

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vinivici9586

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Originally Posted by prizminferno

Heat ML for everything I own. Brad lost the team

i don't normally tout my team, but i think we ship tonight with a jae crowder or duncan robinson game.

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09-25-2020 , 07:06 PM

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Seadood228

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I'll be fine after today, that Coach Nick video just made me even more irate.

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09-25-2020 , 07:08 PM

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Originally Posted by vinivici9586

i don't normally tout my team, but i think we ship tonight with a jae crowder or duncan robinson game.

Did you catch the opening monologue of the Lowe Post? Pretty cool Heat/Riley/Bron stuff there.

I think C's win tonight though.

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09-25-2020 , 07:12 PM

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I don't think the NBA is rigging it for Lebron. They're rigging it for the Lakers because that's what they've always done.

Put Jokic and company in purple and gold and they'd be up 3-1 right now.

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09-25-2020 , 07:15 PM

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Good take

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09-25-2020 , 07:22 PM

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NotReddBoiler

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Herro Time

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09-25-2020 , 07:56 PM

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Seadood228

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Originally Posted by NotReddBoiler

Herro Time

Herro or Mitchell?

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09-25-2020 , 08:36 PM

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I jumped on Heat ML +145.

Let's go JIMMY BUCKETS, lead your team to victory in a variety of ways that you can you beautiful magnificent leader you!

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09-25-2020 , 08:50 PM

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Didn't bet anything but tend to think game 4 was C's last stand, Tatum doesn't seem 100% and they seem to be running on fumes from b2b hard fought series given their lack of depth.

Heat have a new guy stepping up every game and it has been huge.

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09-25-2020 , 08:51 PM

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I love the way Bam battles.

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09-25-2020 , 08:54 PM

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Duncan sandbagging his finishing game until now is pretty next-level stuff from Spo.

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09-25-2020 , 08:54 PM

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Does Hayward not train whenever he's injured? I mean i watch a lot of mma and most of the athletes that i follow train even though they're injured, they just don't train on whichever body part is hurt. Hayward should atleast be getting shots up injured or not, everytime i see this man come back from injury it's like he forgot how to play basketball, smh.

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09-25-2020 , 08:55 PM

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GoldenBears

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Aight heat let’s close this bad boy out

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09-25-2020 , 09:16 PM

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Does Hayward not train whenever he's injured? I mean i watch a lot of mma and most of the athletes that i follow train even though they're injured, they just don't train on whichever body part is hurt. Hayward should at least be getting shots up injured or not, everytime i see this man come back from injury it's like he forgot how to play basketball, smh.

This is a decent Q and probably you should x-poast to H&F.

It clearly depends on the injury. Anaerobic things are significantly tougher to do with leg injuries. But some things can be done. However, things that require entire body coordination are harder. How do you get up shots - with the real form you want - if that's not physically possible? Do you get up random **** so that you keep the feel, but undermine your real technique by teaching your body some inferior, compromised stroke? Pretty obviously you shouldn't and have to be super patient. See Porzingis, K.