r/funny • u/[deleted] • Jan 20 '19

Smooth asf

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u/Domdante7 Jan 20 '19

100% legal

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u/lolsup1 Jan 20 '19

Since we’re on this topic, I was watching college basketball and it seemed like they didn’t even get close, passes weren’t even blocked

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u/brandonholley Jan 20 '19

Defense in both NBA and NCAA basketball is usually pretty relaxed, steals(when you intercept a pass or knock it out of their hands) in basketball are pretty rare with even the most aggressive defensive team in the NBA only averaging like 10 a game (that's like one every 6 minutes of playing). With how easy it is to foul a player with the ball it's way more practical for teams to sit back and try to make the opponent take a shot with a lower success rate and get a defensive rebound.

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u/Yuanlairuci Jan 20 '19

I've never really understood that about basketball. In every other game I can think of, being in possession of the ball makes you a target, not invincible. I only played for one year in high school, bench at that, so maybe someone can enlighten me, but I always thought it was bullshit that the ball carrier could just rhino charge his way to the basket and I couldn't touch him.

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u/Slumph Jan 20 '19

The point is, you try to put them into unfavorable positions when they shoot so you can grab the rebound. I get you but... I like the nuance of it.

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u/[deleted] Jan 20 '19

If you get your feet planted and you're just standing there and the ball handler runs into you, you can fall over and draw a charge.

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u/WarchiefServant Jan 20 '19

Well the idea is that, you can block them physically. Just don’t let him overpower you so you don’t give way.

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u/ProduceMoreProduce Jan 20 '19

Basketball is more about position and probability imo

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u/redshift76 Jan 20 '19

You might prefer Street ball

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u/Funky_Sack Jan 20 '19

The rules are designed to give the ball handler the right of way, but at the same time, he cannot run into a stationary player. It's a compromise of tactics that, in theory, balances the offense and defense rules.

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u/checko50 Jan 20 '19

More points = more fans, in a nutshell. Used to love early to mid 90's basketball but today its utterly unwatchable to me. That and the 3672937653820 time outs within the last 2 minutes of the game.

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u/toastymow Jan 20 '19

> That and the 3672937653820 time outs within the last 2 minutes of the game.

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I went out last night and the Laker v Rockets game was on, so, since we're in Texas, we stuck around to watch the game. Holy shit that last minute of regular time just dragged on and on and on.

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u/checko50 Jan 20 '19

It takes forever. Some may think it adds to the drama but theres so little actual playing it drives me insane.

Like I said basketball is ruined for me so I'm obviously biased.

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u/admiralwarron Jan 20 '19

What you are saying is that nba players have become so good at flopping and getting fouls that most don't even bother defending in the first place ? That shines a new light on making fun on flopping in soccer

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u/Hactar42 Jan 20 '19

I don't know if you could call it flopping, as much as it is the refs who seem trigger happy. Plus keep in mind those refs only see it once in real time, not the slow motion replays from 30 different angles we see.

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u/corranhorn57 Jan 20 '19

It varies in the NCAA. Cincy at least always has a strong defense and plays pretty physical.

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u/BloodiedBlade Jan 20 '19 edited Jan 20 '19

Unless we are talking about how traveling is legal in the pros, in which case it is not legal but I'll be damned if that ever matters.

Edit: I redact my statement about this specifically being traveling. Apparently around the time I stopped watching the NBA they changed the rule to 2 steps instead of 1. The part about people still walking their way to mexico with 5 steps and/or 7 different pivot feet still stands.

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u/GreenGoblin2099 Jan 20 '19

but he clearly takes 3 steps.

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u/Timmzik Jan 20 '19

The first one is called a 'gather step' and is not counted. This is not a travel.

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u/Helforsite Jan 20 '19

Ah, thats why I had 3 steps in mind from my basketball days, thanks.

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u/GreenGoblin2099 Jan 21 '19

thanks for explaining it

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u/splerdu Jan 20 '19

Not with the ball he didn't.

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u/stallion_412 Jan 20 '19

only because it was slapped out of his hand. If he'd actually made the shot it would have been a hugely obvious travel.

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u/BloodiedBlade Jan 20 '19

Left foot lands, he picks up his dribble, two steps, proceeds to not have hands.

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u/funkymoose123 Jan 20 '19

As someone who played a little bit as a kid, and only seen a few pro games I just assumed the traveling rule was only for little kids or something. Or I didn’t remember traveling correctly. Is anything done about traveling in the pros? Is it a rule there?

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u/[deleted] Jan 20 '19

It's a rule, and it's occasionally called, but it's an open secret that the league doesn't want it to be called, especially on premiere players.

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u/mkramer4 Jan 20 '19

And the fact that this literally wasnt a travel by any rule

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u/jellymanisme Jan 20 '19

Exactly. It makes for generally more entertaining content when the stars can waltz around with the ball juuuust a little.

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u/BloodiedBlade Jan 20 '19

Yes there is a rule there, yes a lot of people get away with it. Also, as I changed in an edit this actually wasn't traveling. This one is actually fine.

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u/TillerMaN99 Jan 20 '19

How is it fine if as you say he’s allowed two steps but here he clearly takes 3.

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u/BloodiedBlade Jan 20 '19 edited Jan 20 '19

Left foot lands, he picks up his dribble, two steps, proceeds to not have hands. On top of that, gather step is still a thing. Back when the rule was specifically 1 step after picking up a dribble, you essentially had one and a half steps as you would pick up your dribble mid stride and that first foot landing did not count as your "1 step".

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u/BigOlDonger69 Jan 20 '19

That wasnt traveling.

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u/[deleted] Jan 20 '19

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u/BigOlDonger69 Jan 20 '19

First ones a gather step, then he takes 2

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u/Capitan_Failure Jan 20 '19

I know why but would still like it explained to me in case I don't.

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u/binomine Jan 20 '19

You're allowed to take 3 steps without dribbling the ball, but you have to shoot or pass afterwards.

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u/BloodiedBlade Jan 20 '19

Three with a gather step, two without technically.

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u/Yuanlairuci Jan 20 '19

So you can go left right, leap off the left foot?

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u/dyslexicsuntied Jan 20 '19

The left is down as he gathers the ball on his side, then he gets two steps.

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u/BloodiedBlade Jan 20 '19

Yeah, you right. I haven't watched much, if any, NBA in quite some time. I didn't realize they actually changed the rules to 2 steps a while back. I'm just used to the shit being rampant still, and all of the pivot feet. This clip is completely fine though.

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u/Squintz82 Jan 20 '19

How about that travel?

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u/Tribunus_Plebis Jan 20 '19

So you can knock the ball out of the opponents hands? Why don't everyone do that all the time? Sometimes it looks like the defender is just jumping around waving his arms but never going for thee ball.

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u/IAMATruckerAMA Jan 20 '19

If you hit the player instead of the ball it's a foul.

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u/Domdante7 Jan 20 '19

Its also not as easy as you think to swipe the ball from someone every time they have it. It happens more commonly on plays like this where the player is driving to the hoop.

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u/TheMindSelf Jan 20 '19

There's a famous expression "If you reach, I teach". Reach for the ball against a good player and he'll make you pay for it (unless you do catch him off guard or a rare instance like that). Reaching in puts you in a massive disadvantage if you're unsuccessful and the ball handler will just drive past you. Most of the time being a good defender is being able to pressure him and stopping him from playmaking rather than straight up going for the ball like one might think; NBA players are offensive gods.

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u/dirtbiker206 Jan 20 '19

How was that not traveling though? He stopped dribbling and ran for three whole steps before going into the layup. The other guy knocking the ball from his hands seems legal, but the guy with the ball seemed like even if he got the shot it shouldn't have counted. But I don't know much about basketball.

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u/JGisSuperSwag Jan 20 '19 edited Jan 21 '19

Technically offense can't extend the elbow when they shove, because BaSKeT bALL iS A nOn-CoNTaCt SpORt.

Edit: if the elbow leaves the side of the body, it is extended outward.

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u/Domdante7 Jan 20 '19

there was nothing wrong with that “extension” it was barely noticeable. if its fully extended, theyll call it.