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willashman

NBA making things up in the 2 minute report of yesterday's game (with pics). This isn't to take away from the good shot from Gordon. NBA has to be called out when they are so lazy with these

They say it's after the foot to foot contact that "causes JoJo to fall" that Harden grabs Embiid. They also say that Embiid being grabbed by Harden "does not affect his ability to defend the play." These claims are clearly bullshit.

We can see where Harden hooks his arm around Embiid. At this point, the NBA said that JoJo is already in the act of falling. But when we look a couple tenths of a second later, we can see JoJo land on his right foot with his center of gravity not over top (or close enough to lose balance) of his right leg (i.e. not falling). And we can also see Embiid pushed upright by Harden, affecting his ability to defend the play, and starting to push his center of gravity over top of his right leg.

There's no reason to be so lazy in the 2 minute report. I get it, Gordon hit a good shot, and we aren't getting that game back. Still, we should be expecting the NBA to actually check these calls, and not just bullshit us to stat pad their ref crews with CCs and CNCs.

Link to the 2 minute report.

Posted Oct 27, 2017, 2:06 AM UTC · edited

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ProcessTruster•

Many superstar calls in Harden's favor all game, like the blocking foul on the defender when it was a perfect case of a charge, and the time he plainly pushed TJ to the ground after TJ had stolen the ball on the previous inbound.

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carnivoross•

I honestly think Harden gets the most superstar calls out of any player

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Dennis__ReynoldsBenjamin Simmons•

Jimmy Butler takes the cake from what I've seen but Harden is right there

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Dennis__ReynoldsBenjamin Simmons•

How about the Covington steal that was all ball but it made Harden look bad.

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The_Jrueth•

The TJ push to the ground was the most ridiculous one imo. That couldn’t have been more blatant

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dawk420•

To be sure, sixers are still persona non grata in the NBA's eyes, they won't be getting any favorable calls or kind write ups any time soon. Only way to revers this is so start winning despite the nba wishes and gain enough popularity to start getting those superstar calls in the future.

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rapgamewinniethepoohYou Spin Me Right Round•

Not sure why the NBA would continue any sort of feud after installing the Colangelos at the top of the organization

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hellofellowhuman•

I think that it may have to do with the fact that the fans have started yelling "refs you suck" at almost all of the games now.

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TheRealJavaleMcGee•

Yea how can you say briefly grabbing doesn’t matter when theoretically even affecting the defender by .01 seconds could mean the difference in the outcome of the game

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willashmanOPWhat would you do for that lemonade?•

Gordon's shot though 👌👌

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Wilt2DrJ2Chuck2AI2Jolarge spicy fultz meal w/ a coke•

yea i thou8ght this was bullshit. and it was so obvious live too, how do you not make that call. whatever, we get another crack at them monday. gotta just move onto dallas for now

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Dennis__ReynoldsBenjamin Simmons•

It's fine they got the call wrong and swallowed their whistles. Refs are human and they make mistakes... at least acknowledge the mistake and try to improve on it in the future. The fact that they are not admitting to a blatantly obvious miscall makes it seem like they are trying to cover up for their incompetence, which doesn't make me feel like refs are fair and balanced.

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Hypertension123456•

The 2 minute reports started out somewhat honest. But now its just an exercise in rationalizing any incorrect calls, mixed in with outright fictions.

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unbelievre•

I mean it's Harden tho. Dude randomly climbs on peoples backs in basketball games and gets fouls called in his favor. Dude is the goat at getting his way with the refs.

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J_Ar_7TTP•

Yeah that whole 4th quarter was complete bullshit. 3 pt fouls on players clearly kicking legs out when JJ (or someone) got called for an offensive for literally the exact same thing. The goaltending call on Embiid. Harden's charge.

Somehow I'm not that upset about it yet just cause I think we're so used to losing games like these we almost expect it but I know at some point we'll be on the opposite end of this and getting these superstar calls.

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that_yj•

What about Harden blatantly tripping JJ when he was about to blow by his closeout? Guess that wasn't in the last 2

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DrewFlan•

The right call was made. It was not a foul.

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Willem_Dafuq•

You’ve put a lot of thought into this, but regardless of teams, they aren’t going to call this kind of stuff on the last play of the game.

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iTITAN34•

not on Harden at least

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gn84•

They also completely neglect to mention Harden clearing out with his off arm on Covington to start the last play.

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Willem_Dafuq•

They don’t call that kind of stuff on the last play regardless of teams. Look at Gotat hold Thompson on the last play of the Wizards Warriors. It was an even more egregious play and it still isn’t called: https://streamable.com/g251g. Basically (1) it’s not personal against the Sixers and (2) get used to it because that’s the way the game is played.

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