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  1. BBert

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    Re: WTF?! Stern trying to remove emotion from games

    Great. More opportunities for biased officiating. Anyone who thinks this will even the playing field is delusional. I love this game. :(
     
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    Re: WTF?! Stern trying to remove emotion from games

    ESPN, you have more trust than I do. Dare I hope you are right?
     
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    Re: WTF?! Stern trying to remove emotion from games


    You should have waiting to deduct a point from me until after you read this :)
     
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    Re: WTF?! Stern trying to remove emotion from games

    Can you imagine what would have happened if the Refs called a Tech on Roy after he made that shot? There would have been a Riot and the Refs would have been hung from the rafters.
     
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    Re: WTF?! Stern trying to remove emotion from games



    The rules are referring to people like Sheed who used to punch the sky when he got a fould called on him. Not for celebrating
     
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    Re: WTF?! Stern trying to remove emotion from games

    I am all for it. NBA is the biggest collection of whiners I have ever seen. They are trying to get rid of emotion about calls... not Rudy raising 3 etc... This is good for the Blazers since we tend to do less whining that other teams in recent years... though Roy is stepping up the grunts and arm flailing.
     
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    Re: WTF?! Stern trying to remove emotion from games

    You are incorrect. Fist pumping, which is often done after a big play, is illegal. Many celebrations, are illegal. Most of these rules are subject to the referee's decision, much like the hanging on the rim rule.

    I bet the first time in a Blazer game where some of our guys get called for some bullshit and somebody like Kobe doesn't get called for the same shit you will change your mind about this. In fact, I would have to bet that the first game where a game is decided by one of these calls will be a call to arms for the fans who were short changed. Let players decide the games. Not the refs.
     
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    Re: WTF?! Stern trying to remove emotion from games

    My boy Bayless gets pretty pumped after a hoop and 1! Hope they don't T him up for screamin into our cameras!
     
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    Re: WTF?! Stern trying to remove emotion from games

    Do you have a link for this? Are you referring to another rule? I've never seen anything that "fist pumping" or celebrations or anything dealing with the emotions of a great play being in the refs hands.

    The topic of this conversation was on the recent rules that just came out which make aggresive acts like simulating punching someone or punching the padding under the basket in response to the refs. There is obviously nothing regarding "fist pumps" just because a guy is showing some emotion over making a 3-point basket or something like that.
     
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    Re: WTF?! Stern trying to remove emotion from games

    can you say LOCK - OUT


    Its coming.
     
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    Re: WTF?! Stern trying to remove emotion from games

    From this link: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2010/writers/ian_thomsen/09/24/technicals/index.html?eref=sihp

    From Paragraph 2: "They will include air-punching at an official.

    What consitutes "at"?
     
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    Re: WTF?! Stern trying to remove emotion from games

    Like Sheed always swung his fist, pissed.
     
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    Re: WTF?! Stern trying to remove emotion from games

    Agreed, extremely infantile behavior and has little to do with playing the game, just examples of emotional immaturity.

    But, the new rules are simply another flexible way for the league to purposely determine who wins the game.

    If you seriously think a certain anal-rapist will ever get tossed in a game that matters for arguing a call or tapping his forearm, well...
     
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    Re: WTF?! Stern trying to remove emotion from games

    If a call is incorrect, the coach is the proper person to take issue with the refs. In no way is it the player's right, responsibility, or place.

    Players play, whiners whine.
     
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    Re: WTF?! Stern trying to remove emotion from games

    You can't seriously expect this to be equally applied to anal-rapists and league pets, when none of the other pivotal, game-changing rules (traveling, palming the ball, taunting, deliberately injuring players...) are ever applied to them.

    Good rules but they will be used to serve a deceitful outcome just as all other rules have been under Stern's operation of what has become a complete fraud.
     
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    Re: WTF?! Stern trying to remove emotion from games

    Eh, I don't like this.
     
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    Re: WTF?! Stern trying to remove emotion from games

    fixed.
     
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    Re: WTF?! Stern trying to remove emotion from games

    "We're going to expand the universe of unsportsmanlike actions that will be penalized,'' NBA vice president of basketball operations Stu Jackson said Friday. "They will include air-punching at an official. Waving him off as a sign of disrespect. Running up to an official from across the court to voice a complaint. Flailing arms in disbelief. Jumping up and down and pirouetting in disbelief or clapping sarcastically at an official. Those are some of the types of actions that really have no place in our game."

    Wait a sec, what about that worst of all offenses, "The Glare"?

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=in-W5OuCmS4
     
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