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He's not giving his opinion unsolicited. Your beef is with these media types. I can't believe I'm out here defending Kyme. I blame you, squd.

"Any chance the A/C goes 'on the fritz' like that year in San Antonio? Dump some extra freon up in that b*tch. Make is col' as a penguin butt cheeks in tha 'Farm. Make them ol' a** Heat knees lock up like the Tin man in the Wiz. A teeeny. A teeeny..." - D. Spoelstra

"Guys, any chance we can get that train to ... ahem... "break" "down" like we did when the HorCats came to town? Last time my brother walked more than a few feet, he was wheezin' and coughin' like a 4 pack-a-day smoker. The pollen might kill his weak a**." - D. Spoelstra

He was Ramadan'ing during our last game, iirc. I kinda think Kyme may be the most genuine dude in the league. All these other dudes out here fakin' it. At least he tells you just how he feels.

Yep, we all gotta do our part. On that note, according to my ... sources, Eric Spoelstra's Hawk-loving/Heat-hating brother Deric Spoelstra may be taking over the kg account during the game.

Eh, somebody's gotta pay for their play-in (non)performances. Sure it's just one game but it could be argued that the one game was just an out-sized display of the issues that plague them in general. Roster wasn't great, but it was good enough to not be 30+ points down to both us and the Pacers the year before.

In fairness, Collin Sexton's not a facilitator. He's really just there to get hizzz. Ohhh, my bad. That was a Freudian slip. I didn't mean to call Monta Ellis, 'Collin Sexton'. Silly me. Ohhhh, my bad. That's another Freudian slip?

You can't keep watching what UTA does in the playoffs and completely absolve Gobert of blame, supes. And I heard Brogdon was at the supermarket, got some of the mist on him in the produce section, and immediately got listed as out indefinitely with a sprain or strain or something. I don't know what, I just know he can't stay healthy. I'd love the 'idea' of him on this roster tho so I'll give you that.

I guess they couldn't stomach the manner in which they lost their play-out games. I thought he did a good job, overall but you can't deny they got molly-whopped by teams that may/may not be all that much better than them. They weren't even competitive. Yes, I mainly just wanted to use 'molly-whopp' in a sentence.

What did he say? Sorry, I'm tuning out NBA media the past week or so for ... reasons.

Exactly right.

He probably had to step away from his laptop to calm down and wipe away the tears.

Soth you know you're my guy, right? So don't take this call-out personally buuuut... I didn't watch that game, so I had no idea how egregious your premature Nique-ism was. I mean what TF was MIN doing? I guess you have to give them some credit for almost winning a game where Towns didn't play but still. I mean, there was a 'Towns' in the boxscore but he had that bigtime triple-single goin', so I figured that was Otis Towns or somebody.

Somebody's gotta answer the Gobert question(s). If he's sooooooooooo impactful, explain the playoffs to us. This has happened too many times to claim he's not part of their problems.

Aye, happens to the best of us, soth.

Is Ja playing? If so, MEM is self-owning.

You ain't wrong but I'll add the reason I don't watch any of these shows is because it's all contrived nonsense mixed with fake enthusiasm or outrage. And their eggspert analysis is several levels below what we generate on our own site. It's like the difference between cartoon drawings and a Picasso.

5 years later tho?

I want our resident detractors to keep that same energy when talking about these other guys. But, no, they'll say each of those guys have a longer track record so it was just a bad game or some other excuse. In reality, because those guys have a longer track record, they shouldn't be getting impacted by the defensive attention at that stage of their careers. Why you gotta 1-star your own post with this? I spit coffee all over the keyboard. That dude ain't forcin' a trade. If anything, he'll force them to trade Kyrie.

I haven't watched a second of BSPN coverage for over 15 years now. I ain't missin a thang, jack.

I get he doesn't wanna give them the ref "excuse" but he's gotta find a way to protect them out there. Have Schlenk do it. Doing it privately isn't as effective as doing it privately AND putting their feet to the fire by making a stink in the media too.

Unless you're finna mail off some-a them bad boys for taste-testin', I vote we take down those pics and censure the poster. This is as egregious as the nudes spud posted a few years ago. Not that we wanted to taste squd but ... well, you know what I mean.

The nuance that will be missed in all this is the fact that there is a gargantuan chasm of difference between 'complaining about not getting calls' and 'complaining that the game is being called improperly'. One can objectively be dismissed as homerism. Maybe. The other is indeed an issue with the integrity of the game. It seems clear we're seeing the latter.

The funny part is folks will say stuff like, "those 2 fouls aren't why we lost the game", and they're right. However, it illustrates the 'tone' of the game. Trae did nothing wrong on that play but got a foul and a T on top of it. So, the refs doubled down on their mistake. Who knows how the game would've unfolded from that point had they made the right call. Basically rewarding a guy for running into the ballhandler impacts the way everyone "guards". I have no idea why that's considered 'right' in peoples' eyes.

It seems very apparent that certain refs are afraid to make the call they see. You don't make it to the league without having a certain thickness to your skin, so I'm not saying they're "afraid" of players/coaches. I do, however, think they don't want to deal with crap for a whole game. So they succumb to the campaign of complain we see with Heat players who behave as if they've never committed a foul. Secondarily, there is a school of thought that "they aren't gonna call everything". It happens in college basketball a ton, imho. Whenever there's a team that makes their bones on defense, they take advantage of the fact that refs literally won't call contact on every play. They just won't. Knowing this, they maintain a level of contact that constitutes fouls and the refs essentially adjust to this as the new normal. That's how fouling becomes "defense". That's what we're seeing. A ref with guts can avoid this. That's what we haven't seen.