when nearly every team would pay you the max if they had it, the only way you take less is for a great situation. NY ain't it.
^I think Trev was being sarcastic and referring to some comments related to DAR. I was wrong before though
ironically, part of beverly's negative flopping press lately has involved incidents with harden. guess who won?
The fine is a joke though. Should be at least 25k. 50k for the second violation and a game suspension from that point on.
Harden took 2 steps after the flop. He picked up the ball, shuffled both feet extremely and then shot. Travel. Blatant.
In game technical for unsportsmanlike conduct. They add up just like regular t’s to ejections and suspensions.
i mean, it used to be...remember, the league basically changed their interpretation of jumpstop (basically saying that the jump to the side is a "step") so that harden could keep scoring a lot. used to be that once the ball was "gathered" (another murky definition that got favorably interpreted for harden) you really got a step and a half--that's how i was taught my whole basketball-playing life. the half-step is important in that it means you have to be releasing the ball as the second step finishes. hence, it made sense for layups and running hooks and such, but not so for anything that involved launching off two feet. in order to do that, we were taught to jumpstop--landing on both feet simultaneously--if we planned on taking a shot that wasn't a runner. harden basically took the layup logic plus the two-step written rule and merged them. i really think that had, say, zach lavine started doing this, it would have just been called a travel, and the game would have continued along just fine. anyway, genie's out of the bottle, and with all the media attention it's gotten, plus the league's staunch refusal to reconsider, there's going to be a slew of players using this shot (we already see it). honestly, i don't see how it's helped the game to allow it. i don't think watching people dribble 11 times and then shoot a deep three is why fans tune into games. it was fun when it was a rarity, but watching people go 5-16 on those every night because it's slightly more efficient than actually trying to manufacture better looks is pretty gross.
