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  • #68486
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    BasterdInABasket
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    Yelping “Ayyyyyee” when trying to bait a foul call 

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  • #1117659
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    Lotto Stud
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     Stagnant players on the floor.

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  • #1117660
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    SeattleSuperChronics
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     People calling “and 1” and short black people. #makeamericagreatagain

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  • #1117662
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    high floor
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    Players throwing their arms up (or shrugging shoulders) with a look of disbelief when they’re called for a foul. And also when they feel they didn’t get the call on offense. 

    It’s so common now that their childish reactions almost go unnoticed by the majority of fans

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    • #1117665
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      BasterdInABasket
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       It’s to a point where if someone doesn’t argue a call it doesn’t look right

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  • #1117663
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    whiteflash
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     James Harden’s entire game.

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    • #1117680
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      Mopgrass
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       They only let me give you one thumbs up. 

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      • #1117795
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        whiteflash
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        Hahaha, thanks bud.

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  • #1117666
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    Arc12345
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    Not talking on defense and especially not calling out screens is not only infuriating but will leave you in a world of hurt.

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    • #1117718
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      BasterdInABasket
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       Nothing worse than playing on a team with someone that doesn’t call out picks, it’s usually guys that don’t play a lot and haven’t experienced too many blind side picks. Also depending on the situation, not a good feeling to set a legal blindside pick that the other team doesn’t call out

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  • #1117668
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    BallerScript
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     People who play volleyball when rebounding 

    People who refuse to make the extra pass

     

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  • #1117670
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    CU.LIONS
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     More for pickup ball,

    * but players who DON’T play hard unless the ball is in their hands.

    * players who player "Hero ball" – especially if they suck.

     

     

     

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    • #1117810
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      whiteflash
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       So…. James Harden.

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  • #1117671
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    mcbailey
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     Dribbling backwards in order to shoot a three.

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  • #1117672
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    brodiejay
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    The way it takes 30 minutes to play the last four minutes of a game when teams foul and we have to watch a free throw shooting competition.

    I know they’re looking into it…. but something in the rules needs to change.

    I’m obsessed with the NBA, and even I get bored when it’s just foul, free throws, foul, free throws, foul, free throws.

    I think they need to make more of a disincentive to foul in late game situations. A couple of simple changes could be:

    1. If you intentionally foul in the last 2 minutes the opponent gets one free throw and the ball back.

    2. A controversial one for regular personal fouls…. but maybe just one free throw worth two points, so the games don’t drag out so long. A foul on a three-pointer could be one free-throw worth three points.

     

    Shit….. I don’t know. Something really needs to be done about the current free-throw fest that is modern NBA basketball though.

     

    Also….. as someone said above, everything about James Harden’s game!!!  If the objective of basketball is to shoot the ball through the hoop, he shouldn’t be rewarded for trying to draw a foul and flailing his arms around while not even trying to make a shot at the rim.

    James Harden is the kind of guy that would drive next to you on the road, intentionally crash into you, then drive his car into a ditch, call the police crying, and say you drove him into a ditch. If the police are anything like NBA refs, they would not only believe him, but would then arrest you, p ut you in jail, and you’d have to pay him insurance money for him crashing into you.

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

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  • #1117675
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    OhCanada-
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     The crying just never stops. Theres always someone crying to the refs. Every play. Players start crying before the ref even blows the whistle.

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  • #1117676
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    SubZero
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    2 things immediately come to mind

    1. Throwing your head all the way back when you barely get bumped to try to get a call
    2. When guys have the lane for a wide open layup on fast breaks but camp out on the 3 point line instead

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  • #1117679
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    TRC1991
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    Most annoying thing is no player ever believes he’s ever committed a foul in the history of the game (Pau Gasol’s look of utter shock comes to mind here)

    Also, when a guy (especially LeBron and Durant) goes to the rim, doesn’t finish and looks for a call.

    Every. Single. Time. And I’m a LeBron fan but he complains about not getting a call every single time he misses a shot in the paint. 

    Also, when a guy tries breaking down his man and when he doesn’t go anywhere, instead of swinging the ball he shoots a step back long jumper and bricks it (Oh, I’m talking to you JR)

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    • #1117713
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      SubZero
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      Iggy holds his arms out and has the same look on his face everytime he’s ever been called for a foul

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  • #1117681
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    Mopgrass
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     When a player harshly fouls someone, sometimes on purpose, and when the ref calls foul, they look at the ref like the ref just executed the players 1st born child. 

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  • #1117683
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    XYRYX
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     when a player contests a shot an keeps his arm stretched out like forever sometimes until the ball has hit the rim. They just want to sell they were there even if they have been late on the shot and played good d. The could try to box out/rebound or start the break but no they stand or walk around for two or three seconds and it’s totally unnecessary and embarrassing. 

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  • #1117685
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    Dazzling Dunks and Basketball Bloopers
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     So for pickup ball, it has to be guys that just want the ball all the time and complain and sulk when they don’t get it. Typically guys like this are lazy on defense and will put all the blame on their teammates when they lose. There’s no more annoying type of guy to play with.

    Watching nba games on tv i think it really has to be the inconsistency of the officiating. I hate how the refs seem to judge flagrant fouls more on the outcome of the play rather than the intent. I’ve seen too many times when a guy makes a legitimate play on the ball but totally by accident happens to instead hit the player hard and winds up either getting a flagrant or ejected. Meanwhile, there are plays like jr Smith shoving Al Horford in the back mid-air that didn’t even get an ejection or fine because Horford managed to land on his feet. Also whenever a fight occurs, they almost always have to punish both guys even if one is clearly the instigator and one is just defending himself.

     

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    • #1117714
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      SubZero
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      This kind of goes along with your last sentence but no one’s really said it, but I absolutely hate when stuff’s going down and the refs don’t wanna have to make the hard call so they just go double techs. Half the time it’s lazy and the other half it’s overreactionary, hardly ever is it warranted

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  • #1117687
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    Choppy
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     My pet peeve is bail out foul calls for star players. Call it the same for everyone. 

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  • #1117688
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    eyefortalent
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     One of THE basic defensive principles is not to leave your feet on a jump shooter and every player in this league does it, but that seems to be the case on every level of basketball. Players and coaches are morons that this is the norm now.

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  • #1117690
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    Ahkasi Clay
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     Lakers Fans.

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  • #1117691
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    Andrew1984
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    In a pick-up game:

    1. Unnecessarily flashy, hot-dogging plays that end up as TOs, when the simple play would’ve been a bucket.

    2. When someone sets any kind of off-the-ball screen, a pin down or a flex cut, or whatever, and the person with the ball is fiddling around trying to look cool with his handles, and does not see the open man coming off the screen.

    Watching a game:

    1. Laziness at the highest level of basketball; I cannot tolerate it when college or NBA players make no attempt to close out on a perimeter shooter. Even if middle schools can contest a shot. When a professional basketball player literally stands there 10 feet away and watches an opponent shoot, it churns my stomach because it’s purely a matter of effort.

    2. The whole going into the other team’s huddle thing is just obnoxious. I don’t think they even pick up anything useful, I think it’s more of, a “hey, look at me, aren’t I clever guy?” sorta thing.

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    • #1117697
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      Andrew1984
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       Oh, let me throw this in, too: a player makes a routine 3-pointer, and smugly puts three fingers up to boast and brag and be generally unsportsmanlike. 

      The reason I hate it is because making a 3-pointer has become so ordinary in recent years. Teams are shooting as many of them as 2s. I can understand celebrating and getting a little carried away with some rare achievement, but I can’t accept such haughtiness and self-absorption over something so mundane.

       

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  • #1117692
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    jmarg25
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    Guys who take bad shots every possession and then yell out complaints about teammates not rebounding or playing good enough defense. 

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  • #1117696
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    Memphis Madness
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     The Western Conference Finals starring PJ Tucker and Kevon Looney at center.

    The carcass of LeBron James and the Cleveland Cavaliers.

    Steph Curry playing Drunk HORSE in Game 4 of the WCF.

    The Houston Rockets potentially making the Stanley Cup Final GREAT Again for the first time since 1994.

    Draft picks who won’t work out interview/give medical records to the Memphis Grizzlies.

    Having more fun at a D3 game or a juco game in Texas than at a Memphis Grizzlies game.

    Making a great pass then the other guy not making the layup.

    Not feeding the big man.

    Like 75% of Steve Kerr’s coaching decisions.

    Basically if any team other than the Boston Celtics wins the NBA title it would be very very bad for the game of basketball.

    Moving screens.

    The current PICKANDROLLMANIA.

    The local college team expecting me to get excited about 5’10 guards.

    Having a Grizzlies GM who I wouldn’t trust to draft my fantasy basketball/football/baseball teams.

    That we are getting to a point where we might need territorial draft picks for 7 footers.

    Mock drafts that have Mo Bamba lower than 5.

    Draft boards that don’t have Donte Inferno in the lotto.

    The irrational Luka love.  Not saying he is bad, or a bad guy, but he could end up being the next Titanic — heck he is built like and moves like the Titanic.

    Mock drafts that have Trae Young ahead of Collin Sexton.  Yeah, ok, Sexton is streaky, but SO IS TRAE YOUNG!

    There not being an alternative pro league to the NBA.

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

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  • #1117698
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    ph90702

    That it’s taboo to make cross racial player comparisons.

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  • #1117702
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    Andrew1984
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    I would support federal legislation to ban (on pain of imprisonment) any pick-up basketball scoring system but the following:

    1. Every made FG is worth one point regardless of location
    2. Play to 12, win by two
    3. Half-court is make-it-take it, full-court is not

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    • #1117771
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      brodiejay
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      How would ‘make-it-take-it’ be possible playing full court???

      Would the team that allowed a basket just roll the ball to the other end of the court for the team that just scored to come at them again?

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      • #1117773
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        Andrew1984
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         Haha, it’s half-court non make-it-take it that my statement was intended to denounce.

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        • #1117829
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          jcouch
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           Make it take it is one of the dumbest things ever. How does that even resemble basketball?  May as well say if you foul with your right hand it isn’t a foul, but if you foul with your left it is. Make it take it is generally favored by people who are so bad that a game to 12 by real rules would take 2 hours, so they go make it take it to speed up the pace, as it encourages getting on a roll  

           The only thing worse in half court ball is not taking it back if the ball doesn’t hit the rim (getting a defensive rebound on an air ball and going straight back up and shooting it IN THE OPPONENTS HOOP). 

           

          Hillbilly ball, plain and simple.

           

           

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          • #1117850
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            Andrew1984
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             If you’ve got any experience playing pick-up ball at more than a handful of spots throughout this great nation, you’ll find that make-it, take-it is standard practice for half-court. It might not be logical, but it forces you to earn the ball back by getting a stop.

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  • #1117806
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    joe2324
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    The game needs to go back to the way it was played in the 80s and 90s. I can’t take watching a game and having the ref blow the whistle on every single possession. How is that in any way entertaining to watch? I’d rather watch a nice smooth game with hardly any whistles being blown where the score is 80-78 than watch a game of 140-102 where a team is shooting 50 free throws. 

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  • #1117818
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    IndianaBasketball
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    Some of these may have been mentioned, but here are my pet peeves:

    1. Overdribbling – Players who waste dribbles & just dribble for no reason. Not going anywhere.

    2. Hero ball – Just watch James Harden.

    3. Ball stoppers – Ball goes to them & they NEVER make the extra pass. They never swing the damn ball. Selfish. 

    4. Poor defenders, especially off of the ball – I can’t stand when guys don’t see both ball & man, and get backcut. Can’t stand when players don’t understand where to be. 

    5. Poor floor spacing – Can’t stand players who don’t understand how to space the floor . . . Crowding up the driving lanes smh. 

     

     

     

     

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  • #1117830
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    jcouch
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     Guys yelling “And one” every time they shoot is the most annoying thing to me. Even if it’s a guy on the team I root for, I find myself yelling at the tv, “it’s not an And 1 if you miss the shot, dumb@ss.”

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